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title: Những người Mỹ tới đây là bạn. Chúng ta hãy hợp tác với họ (Americans Come as Friends. Let's Cooperate With Them)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/americans-come-as-friends-cooperate-1965-1969/
description: A wide Vietnamese-language sheet (code SP-1257) pairs a photograph of a U.S. aid representative and a provincial official smiling among a group of children
section: Collection
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[![Những người Mỹ tới đây là bạn. Chúng ta hãy hợp tác với họ, 1965 US poster: A wide Vietnamese-language sheet (code SP-1257)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/americans-come-as-friends-cooperate-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/americans-come-as-friends-cooperate-1965-1969.jpg)

# Những người Mỹ tới đây là bạn. Chúng ta hãy hợp tác với họ (Americans Come as Friends. Let's Cooperate With Them)

A wide Vietnamese-language sheet (code SP-1257) pairs a photograph of a U.S. aid representative and a provincial official smiling among a group of children before a new school with the slogan that Americans come as friends and should be cooperated with. The text credits the school to provincial and U.S. aid cooperation and blames the Viet Cong for destroying the old one. The technique's tell is the everyday, smiling scene standing in for the argument.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
NHỮNG NGƯỜI MỸ
TỚI ĐÂY LÀ BẠN.
CHÚNG TA HÃY
HỢP TÁC VỚI HỌ.

CÙNG HỢP TÁC XÂY DỰNG VIỆT-NAM TỐT ĐẸP HƠN.

Một Đại Diện tỉnh của Cơ Quan Phát Triển Quốc Tế Hoa-Kỳ và một công chức của Ty Công Chánh tỉnh Quảng Tín đang vui-vẻ nói chuyện với các em nhỏ trước một ngôi trường mới dành cho đồng bào ty nạn; ngôi trường cũ đã bị tàn phá bởi bọn Việt Cộng phá hoại.

Ngôi trường mới được xây cất do sự hợp tác của Chính Quyền tỉnh và Cơ Quan Phát Triển Quốc Tế Hoa-Kỳ.

SP-1257

[in photograph, on school wall:] TRƯỜNG TIỂU-HỌC TỨ-HIỆP
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
THE AMERICANS COME HERE AS FRIENDS.
LET US COOPERATE WITH THEM.

Let us cooperate to build a better Vietnam.

A provincial representative of the U.S. Agency for International Development and an official of the Quang Tin province Public Works Service are chatting cheerfully with children in front of a new school for refugee compatriots; the old school was wrecked by the Viet Cong saboteurs.

The new school was built through the cooperation of the provincial government and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

SP-1257

[in photograph, on school wall:] TU-HIEP PRIMARY SCHOOL
```

[← Aids to Highlander's Hamlets, Binh Long Province (Công cuộc viện trợ vào tận các ấp Thượng tỉnh Bình-Long)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/aids-to-highlanders-hamlets-binh-long-province-sp-1861-1965-1969/) [Những người bạn Mỹ đến Long An (Americans Come to Long An) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/americans-come-to-long-an-1965/)

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