Cold War Stereotypes

For decades the United States has struggled with Communist countries. These struggles have created tensions, wars and many stereotypes that are still going on today. For example, the stereotypes are still noticeable and negatively effects all of

Asia. The American beliefs, conflicts and relations with communist countries has created a negative stereotype that all Asians are communists. Communism has always been seen as a negative form of government and through Americans similar view points Asia is being perceived as all communist.

The American point of view as created the stereotype that all Asian countries are communists. The stereotypes originated with Russia becoming communists.

US became suspicious about communism when the Soviet Union

Then the war ended. By 1945, Americans had become somewhat convinced that maybe those Russian communists were not that bad after all. But by 1949,

Americans were again convinced that Russian communists, and communists throughout the world--and they seemed to be everywhere by 1949--were again the incarnation of evil. This was the start of the Cold War" (Evans).

Once the Cold War began, the anti- communist United States began to repel communism with force and through propaganda. However, most notably, the Vietnam war. "The Vietnam War saw the US military supporting a series of regimes in South

Vietnam with an escalating degree of force. "The USA had inherited the conflict from the French, whose attempts to control Indo-China (as the area was then known) had failed and resulted in their withdrawal and the partition of Vietnam in 1954. Elections were to be held in 2 years and it looked as if the Communist leader Ho Chi Minh would win and unite North and South Vietnam under one government. The USA believed that this was unacceptable and their context for acting was rooted in