No stress vs. War

Experiencing the tranquility of Laos is amazing! Nobody is ever stressed and always ready to adapt to all situations - e.g. transform one's dining room into a restaurant or wait 5 hours for a bus to have enough passengers.

We read some anthropologist saying that the "no stress" / "life exists to be enjoyed" culture is so strong that people are totally not encouraged to work or even study too hard, a fact that is pretty different compared to other Asian cultures.

I imagine how confronting was a war in such a place. The big population of villagers - who in reality don't feel any difference if the country is communist or capitalist - would probably find violence very alien and the fact that another country would waste a lot of money and human lives in such a theoretical mission just insane.