What is the anti-Vietnam War movement?
The invasion of Vietnam by the United States caused widespread anger among people of all ethnic groups in the United States. Many Asians believe that the essence of this war is the racial discrimination and aggression of the United States against Asians who fought against the Vietnam War. Moreover, "throughout the history of racists roaming the world, the current white colonial plunder war and the bloodshed of Asian people will not stop soon, but will drag on indefinitely." In view of the atrocities committed by the US military in Vietnam, more and more Asian American college students and high school students are shocked to realize: "The enemy that American soldiers aim at and shoot is an Asian with the same face as them." Therefore, when they took to the streets excitedly, they did not shout slogans such as "We want peace" and "Withdraw troops" like white protesters, but from their own perspective, they held high placards such as "Stop killing Asian brothers and sisters" and "Reject racial war" and shouted the same slogans in unison to participate in anti-war demonstrations. Obviously, they linked this war with their own racial oppression and began to believe that no matter how hard they tried, the fact that the mainstream society regarded Asians as Asians and outsiders would not change. This new understanding is conducive to the formation of pan-Asian national consciousness.