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Indeed. Although, strangely, it didn't start until the second iteration of French rule. Vietnam had been colonized by everyone under the sun for decades with little complaint.

Actually, I believe the Vietnamese did successfully resist Chinese (Ming Dynasty?) invasion.

Why is this redundant? Lots of colonies have gone on for years and years without anything that could be called an anticolonialist movement. Apparently Vietnam got one right away.

Ssuma's right. Barring unusual context, the sentence is clearly intended to stress that Vietnamese opposition to the French started from the very beginning. Most people would otherwise assume that it began after World War II with Ho Chi Minh.

Well, no, Ssuma is half-right. The French were the last in a long line of Empires to conquer southeast Asia.

It is rather like the average Indian's concentration on Britain as THE IMPERIAL OPPRESSOR, when in fact, Britain was also the last in a long litany of conquerors.

Not to mention far less oppressive than India's own attempts at self-rule prior. Give me the Highlanders and the Raj anyday if my alternative is thuggee and suttee.

Why not just let them go and be free?! That's all is so bad. Hope someday we'll be far from all these politics and wars and ect!!!!

Steve: I hope we have a happy rainbow land filled with unicorns, too! And puppies and ect!!!

Not to mention far less oppressive than India's own attempts at self-rule prior. Give me the Highlanders and the Raj anyday if my alternative is thuggee and suttee.

Flies in the face of settled history. Mortality statistics (for example, those presented in Mike Davis' "Late Victorian Holocausts") demonstrate quite clearly that the Indians were much better off under the moghuls than the British.

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