For sure, but it's also just a consequence of prolonged imperialism: the conquering culture gets rolled into the conquered culture, to the point where it's normalized for people living in the aftermath of conquest.
Like for better or worse Bahn mi and Catholicism and Latin script are all part of Vietnamese culture now, and the people I've talked to encounter it in their daily lives. But they're not old enough to remember the brutality of French Indochina.
For sure, but it's also just a consequence of prolonged imperialism: the conquering culture gets rolled into the conquered culture, to the point where it's normalized for people living in the aftermath of conquest.
Like for better or worse Bahn mi and Catholicism and Latin script are all part of Vietnamese culture now, and the people I've talked to encounter it in their daily lives. But they're not old enough to remember the brutality of French Indochina.
Makes sense, lots of white people are like "oh cool Latin, the smarty pants language" forgetting that time Italians raped everybody for 1000 years