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Why don't the Vietnamese like it when Americans refer to the “Vietnam War” as “Vietnam?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    I suppose to them it was a civil war, like the US Civil War. That's probably why.

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