<P> However, most of Vietnamese nationalist concepts aim mainly on China, which has many times fueled the anti-Chinese sentiment in Vietnam, although there are other anti-Cambodian and anti-French as well, with nothing much significant . </P> <P> Vietnamese nationalism appeared since the independence of Vietnam around 2,800 years ago, when Vietnam was made up of the independent kingdoms under Văn Lang and Âu Lạc . In there, Vietnam was one of the oldest - formed nations in Southeast Asia, Asia and the world . </P> <P> However, following with the later Chinese millennium in Vietnam, several attempts against Chinese occupation resulted with many wars that happened throughout thousand years of Chinese rule, after which Vietnam finally regained independence in the 10th century following the battle of Bạch Đằng . Through then, Vietnam remained very militaristic and nationalistic due to the history of Vietnam often had brutal past with China and later, with its neighbors like Champa, Khmer Empire, Lan Xang, and later with Siam, which led to many wars . One of these wars had a serious effect, with the destruction of Champa Kingdom . </P> <P> Lý Thường Kiệt's famous declaration of Vietnam's independence, Nam quốc sơn hà (Mountains and Rivers of the Southern Country), is a patriotic and nationalistic poem that still lives on in Vietnamese society generations later and now . </P>

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