In Mojave of FO: New Vegas, do people remember the Chinese of the 2077 war?

[Censor]

In the Hoover Dam Offices in Fallout New Vegas, a certain terminal has some entries hinting at the storage of Chinese stealth suits nearby. I was adding some Chinese weapons to the game for testing and decided to add them in more or less logical places considering where the stealth suits ended up. I also wanted to add an entry in the Office terminal about weapons being found with markings or a language on them that noone could read. Then I began to wonder how many people knew about the Chinese being a side in the 2077 war, and how much they would know - just so that the entry would make sense.

Now, in Fallout 3 there's tons of Chinese weapons scattered over the place, as well as ghoulified Chinese soldiers pretty much being a (crappy) reminder of the Chinese enemy of 2077. New Vegas was thankfully written with a lot more sense than that, so such reminders are pretty uncommon. In fact, the only one I can think of right now are the stealth suits - which are not even identified as Chinese by NCR engineers.

So, TLDR, I wonder: do the people of the Mojave remember or know anything about China/the Chinese of 2077?

Missing "the" in the title. Yes I see it now.

 

[Yamu]

There's no canon answer that I know of, but it's likely highly specialized knowledge. The educated may be aware of a vague outline of events, but the average person probably just knows bits and pieces heavily distorted through the lens of historical decay or tribal lore if they've ever heard of China at all.

Have you ever seen the "Jaywalking" segments Jay Leno used to do on The Tonight Show? There are grown, (at least semi-)literate Americans today who don't even know that we were once a colony of Britain or who will tell you that slavery was a negligible factor in the Civil War, and that's with a high population density, a national education system, and ready access to historical literature, museums, PBS, and the internet. Here and abroad, the Holocaust is being denied or forgotten by some even though it was less than a century ago. History isn't very durable on its own. I imagine the general memory of pre-war events would be akin to the modern knowledge of ancient Greek history, maybe even ancient mythology.

tl;dr: Probably not, though you're bound to find the occasional would-be history buff or vault-educated individual. The name "China" would probably ring a vague bell as "One of them beforetimes countries what ended the world, right?" with a strong minority, at the very least. Most of what is known would probably be based on inaccurate wartime propaganda and overly optimistic war reporting, regardless.

 

[naossano]

Amongs those probably aware of China.

- The Enclave : They're the remnants of the government that fought agains't the chinese and they want to restore the old world culture. They probably have a lot of pre-war knowledge. Of course, a lot of this knowledge would have been learnt in a very oriented opinion, maybe not the whole picture, especially not what america did wrong. (Propaganda, propanganda never changes...)

- The Follower of Apocalypse. They have a lot of pre-war knowledge about the romans and mongolians. There is no reason they wouldn't know the chinese. (i would even bet that they knowledge is superior than the average pre-war guy)

- Brotherhood of Steel & NCR. It's hard to tell. Most people from these factions have some pre-war inheritance. Especially the NCR that try to emulate pre-war government in many ways, should have knowledge beyond laws and regulations. Maybe it's not commonly shared, but even the citizens look very similar than pre-war people. BOS should have knowledge too, but as they're pretty dogmatic, they may have looked upon some facts. I would say the most interested in history, from those both factions should know. I have no doubt about Crockett for example.

- Pre-war ghouls. They would know even better than you and me, as they were there when all of this happened.

- Maybe oldest super-mutant that had an educated background and low radiations. (The Lieutenant, Marcus...)

- People that left their vault recently. Provided they had the necessary database, they had plenty of time to learn history. However, like the Enclave, it is likely that their knowledge was oriented, that the database were purposly partial.

- People from San Francisco, as the Shi came from China and kept part of their culture, mixed with other influences.

- I would say people from adytum, as the library was there.

- Beyond that, every people that shown interest in history, stumbled across some old books, old computers, people from the others groups, should have some knowledge. But that knowledge could also be partial, or they may choose to not believe it. I bet doctors and politicians would know a lot.

- Considering that the NCR is widespread, i don"t find unlikely that the knowledge is shared, but i am maybe overly optimistic about people knowledge...

 

[Censor]

Hmm good points. Gave me enough context for some modding