Vietnam. A series of crises and events helped shape the characteristics of Ho Chi Minh. Many actions were taken by Ho Chi Minh in order to express his identity.

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Examine individual or group identity in an historical setting, in an essay

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Describe and explain how a series of crises and events over time helped shape the characteristics/identity of a specific individual or group.

Describe and explain how the specific individual or group expressed their identity through their actions.

A series of crises and events helped shape the characteristics of Ho Chi Minh. Many actions were taken by Ho Chi Minh in order to express his identity.

Ho Chi Minh was born into a peasant class family in Vietnam.  He would become a dedicated communist and nationalist after his experiences in France in 1917 and also through his Vietnamese heritage.  This included the Chinese rule and French colonisation of Vietnam.  His peasantry status and nationalist father also contributed to his nationalist and communist identity.  Ho Chi Minh expressed his identity in the formation of the Vietminh, an organised group of Vietnamese who also shared the same beliefs as Ho Chi Minh.  The partaking in battles during Japanese occupation, the first Indochina war also shows Ho Chi Minh’s dedication to nationalism.  The formation of yet another group, the Vietcong, was another expression of Ho’s beliefs in nationalism.

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One event was when the Chinese ruled Vietnam for close to a thousand years, they introduced Confucianism to Vietnam.  This way of life taught obedience, loyalty, and the respect for authority.  It also taught that everyone had a duty their families.  Ho Chi Minh was born a peasant and as his father was a nationalist, Ho Chi Minh felt being a nationalist was a duty to his father, Ho Chi Minh also used the ideas of loyalty to family in the formation of his own groups.  This ensured that Ho Chi Minh’s beliefs were always followed and agreed with.

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