What racism? You mean the old embarrassing stereotype that the Vietcong were our enemy in the Vietnam War?

The vietnamese, such a cruel race.
Seriously though, great scene.

They aren't cruel. They just love to gamble.

That sounds like commie talk to me! You VC, huh? You numba one, or numba ten?

Oh, I ardently disagree. A movie like Green Berets dehumanized the Vietnamese by keeping them far at a distance, soulless kill-bots opposed only by valiant American heroes. Even so-called anti-war films like Platoon, and especially Apocalypse Now, are far more racist than this, displaying the Vietnamese as inscrutable cyphers, blank backgrounds for the white characters to simply act against. In this scene you get a great amount of humanity shown. You get a clear sense of personality for each individual Vietnamese. You are given clear signs of actual human life in every shot - food, clothing, etc. The film revolves around a theme of the dehumanization of ordinary men in the time of war. What this scene shows is a bunch of individuals - clear individuals all - that have been dehumanized in this way. Everyone in this scene is an animal, reduced to animal cunning. An easy reflexive action to take is: can we imagine the Vietcong being replaced with Americans and the situation being reversed without substantial change? For me, the answer is so easily yes, because we know Americans are easily capable of it. So again, I think you're really stretching this here. The VC committed many acts of sadistic torture against American prisoners during the war, acts which have even been admitted to by the Vietnamese government. Americans also committed similarly sadistic acts, which have been similarly well documented and owned to. So having a scene with VC torture isn't in itself a racist act. You're going to have to point to something really specific here for me to see what you're seeing.

LOL. No worries. We all care about racism and how it makes us feel guilty about the films we love. Any way we have to argue out of it, I say take it.