ABSTRACT
Economic development, the formation of new social classes with diverse lifestyles and philosophies, and foreign influences all combined to produce new cultures and mentalities in Indochina. The experiences, ideas, and moral and religious values introduced by colonization found expression in literature, music, and the fine arts. They informed certain new behaviors, though never fully eliminating the preexisting ways of thinking or living, if only because they had an unequal effect on different peoples and social classes, and in different ways in the cities than in the countryside.
