Authors
Sean W. Hough '16, Gettysburg College
Location
Breidenbaugh 209
Session
German Studies Capstones I
Start Time
4-30-2016 9:00 AM
End Time
4-30-2016 10:15 AM
Supervising Faculty Member
Kerry Wallach
Department
German Studies
Description
This paper will analyze the historical and cultural conditions that affected how the German Democratic Republic treated one of its largest minority groups, the Vietnamese. During the height of the Cold War and as Decolonization reached its peak phase in the 1960s and 70s, these two factors pushed the GDR and Vietnam closer, which resulted in an exchange in workers. Contract Workers were brought to the GDR to work in an environment "united in socialist solidarity." However, despite this rhetoric, age-old racism, xenophobia, and Orientalism still infiltrated the so called "Socialist Paradise," as the GDR was often called by its own press.
Document Type
Student Research Paper
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Vietnamese Contract Workers in the East German Republic
Breidenbaugh 209
This paper will analyze the historical and cultural conditions that affected how the German Democratic Republic treated one of its largest minority groups, the Vietnamese. During the height of the Cold War and as Decolonization reached its peak phase in the 1960s and 70s, these two factors pushed the GDR and Vietnam closer, which resulted in an exchange in workers. Contract Workers were brought to the GDR to work in an environment "united in socialist solidarity." However, despite this rhetoric, age-old racism, xenophobia, and Orientalism still infiltrated the so called "Socialist Paradise," as the GDR was often called by its own press.
Comments
German Studies Senior Capstone