Little amounts of violence can prolong a group's suffering, but can also lead to a preservation of culture after Imperialism is over. In Pattern of Vietnamese Response to Foreign Intervention, this idea is shown when two friends are split apart due to separate ideas on how to preserve Vietnam's culture when being under attack. Phng, a Vietnam local, thinks the best course of action is to rebel for his people in the name of honoring their country's name. Khai, a Vietnamese person who fights with the French, encourages Phng to stop, because he is prolonging the harm to his land. Khai’s anti-violence approach will lead to Vietnam keeping its territory, but a loss in home rule at the time. What Phng fails to consider is that Khai is taking account of what will be left to rule, once Imperialism comes to an end. This way of thinking is also shared back in India. In the book, Indian Home Rule, Mohandas Gandhi shared the idea of taking an anti-resistance approach to colonization just like Khai. He goes on to say that using violence against these greater powers is not what Indians do, and would be disrespecting their own culture if
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