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 as we concluded ‘the best we could do’, I have gotten really interested with the refugee crisis and it’s history To start I need to define what a refugee is, according to the 1951 convention: Who is a refugee?  U.N. definition (1951 Convention): A refugee is a person who "owing to a well- founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country"  As seen in in ‘the best we could do’ Thi Bui’s family perfectly fits this definition, due to them having fled with a "well-founded fear of being persecuted" due to the political instability and collapse of their home country. getting into the history of it, The term ‘refugee’ was formally coined in 1951 in the UN refugee convention, is was created to address and help the massive humanitarian cris...

 As seen in ‘the best we could do’ with Vietnam,  many previously colonial colonies were split against each other and fought in proxy wars during The Cold War, these proxy wars lead to many detrimental Effects Within these post colonial society.  Vietnam was far from the only nation affected, t he geopolitical struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union started indirect conflicts as proxy wars (where instead of fighting directly, they would split the nations into delegates and have them fight on there part) this was done to many countries across the globe a good example is what happened  in post-colonial China  in China, the post World War II power vacuum caused by the defeat of Japan started a civil war between the two pre-existing militarist groups: the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) led by Chiang Kai-shek (advocating for a capitalist/nationalist China) and the Communist Party of China (CPC) led by Mao Zedong (advocating for a communist/agrarian Chin...