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How is Gallimard’s explanation of political relations between the East and West symbolic of his opinion regarding romantic relations between Easterners and Westerners?
Gallimard tells Toulon that “the Orientals simply want to be associated with whoever shows the most strength and power.” This is his explanation for why the Chinese government is currently communist, as well as the basis of his prediction that “if the Americans demonstrate the will to win, the Vietnamese will welcome them into a mutually beneficial union.” This opinion of the Easts’s submissive relationship to the West underlies Gallimard’s only relationship with Song. Just as he thinks that “orientals will...
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