South Vietnam's social structure was similar to the US's social structure, except it was under extreme military influence due to the constant warring over the last 30 years; e.g. many people wore military clothing (surplus or otherwise), military surplus construction material covered civilian homes, bridges, roads, etc. South Vietnam was "supposed" to be structured (modeled after) along "free" country lines, such as the US, or any other NON-Communist country. E.g. freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of education, selling & trading (capitalism), etc. US personnel in country, were to respect those same social traditions, as they would in the United States.
Any traditional ingrained Vietnamese traditions were NOT interferred with by the US Government, unless they violated common sense human dignity laws. If the South Vietnamese Government expected to continue to receive US assistance, they had to comply with US Policies of human rights & dignity.
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During the war, they were paper with Vietnamese civilians pictured on them.
US airmen flew through the most heavily defended targets in aviation history over North Vietnam during the war.
Post-communistic.
Like the US Civil War in the 1860s the Vietnam War in the 1960s divided America.
They were both wars against communism; its just Vietnam was a shooting war and the cold war was NOT a shooting war. Example (analogy)-It would be like two men arguing in a bar (as an example) about something (which would be the cold war) and then going outside and having a fist fight...or worse ( this would be Vietnam) about the same argument.