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Socio-Cultural Setting:
Vietnam
Reported by:
Noegen R. Boholano
(BSEd 3-C, Group 10)
Socio-Cultural Setting:
Vietnam
Way of Life
Before the late 1800s, nearly allthe people of Vietnam lived invillages, and the cultivation ofwet rice was the principaleconomic activity. The basiccomponent of rural society was
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Vietnam
the nuclear family, composed ofparents and unwed children. Asin China, however, extendedfamily relationships were alsoimportant. In many cases,extended families lived together.Parents arranged the marriages
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Vietnam
of their children, and filial piety(obedience to one’s parents) wasexpected. Wives, too, wereexpected to obey theirhusbands. Families veneratedtheir ancestors with specialreligious rituals. The houses of
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Vietnam
the wealthy were constructed ofbrick, with tile roofs. Those ofthe poor were of bamboo andthatch. Rice was the staple foodfor the vast majority, garnishedwith vegetables and, for thosewho could afford it, meat andfish.
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Vietnam
The French introduced Westernvalues of individual freedom andsexual equality, whichundermined the traditionalVietnamese social system. Inurban areas, Western patterns ofsocial behavior became
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Vietnam
increasingly common, especiallyamong educated and wealthyVietnamese. Elite Vietnameseattended French schools, readFrench books, replacedtraditional attire with Western-style clothing, and drank French
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Vietnam
wines instead of the traditionalwine distilled from rice.
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Vietnam
The trend toward adoptingWestern values continued inSouth Vietnam after the divisionof the country in 1954. Manyyoung people embraced sexualfreedom and the movies,clothing styles, and rock music
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Vietnam
from Western cultures becamepopular. But in the North, socialethics were defined byCommunist principles adaptedfrom China and the Union ofSoviet Socialist Republics (USSR).The Communist government
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Vietnam
officially recognized equality ofthe sexes, and women began toobtain employment inprofessions previouslydominated by men. At the sametime, the government beganenforcing a more puritanical
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Vietnam
lifestyle as a means to counterthe so-called decadent practicesof Western society. Traditionalvalues continued to hold sway inrural areas, where the concept ofmale superiority remainedcommon.
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Vietnam
In 1986 the Vietnamesegovernment adopted aneconomic reform program thatborrowed freely from free-market principles andencouraged foreign investmentand tourism. As a result, the
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Vietnam
Vietnamese people havebecome increasingly acquaintedwith and influenced by thelifestyles in developed countriesof East Asia and the West. TheCommunist regime finds thistrend worrisome, believing it
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Vietnam
could lead to an increase inindividualism, materialism, druguse, and pornography. While theadministration stresses theimportance of economicdevelopment, it remainscommitted to wiping out what it
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Vietnam
considers the “poisonousweeds” of capitalism inVietnamese society.
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Vietnam
Social Issues
During the Vietnam War, theCommunist government of NorthVietnam was successful inlimiting the country’s socialproblems to those directlyconnected with the war effort.
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Vietnam
Although malnutrition andpoverty were common,corruption was rare and theincidence of drugs, prostitution,and crime was limited.
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Vietnam
Following the war, Vietnamdeveloped high rates of birthdefects, probably due to theaerial spraying of Agent Orangeand other chemical herbicidesduring the war. The U.S. militarysprayed these defoliants on
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Vietnam
forests and crops to help exposethe hiding places of Communistforces. As a consequence,innumerable Vietnamese wereexposed to extremely toxicbyproducts known as dioxins,which have been associated with
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Vietnam
severe birth defects and certainrare cancers in humans. Toxinsthat leaked into croplands andrivers around the sprayed areasalso had long-term effects on thefood supply of the country as awhole.
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Vietnam
Land mines from the war alsoposed a significant problem.Concealed by both U.S. andCommunist forces, land minescontinued to kill and cripplepeople after the war. From theend of the war in 1975 to 2005,
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Vietnam
more than 58,000 Vietnamesewere killed by land mines—morethan all the U.S. servicemen whodied during the war. See alsoMine (Warfare).
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Vietnam
Social problems have increasedsince the economic reforms of1986. Corruption has escalatedas increasing amounts of moneycirculate through society.Unemployment is also on therise, especially among young
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Vietnam
people. Drug addiction andalcoholism are becoming seriousproblems; prostitution isrampant, especially in urbanareas; and incidents of acquiredimmunodeficiency syndrome(AIDS) have increased in
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Vietnam
Vietnam. Many of these socialills may be inevitableconsequences of themodernization process.However, they represent aserious challenge to agovernment determined to bring
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Vietnam
about economic developmentwithout the accompanyingproblems of social and politicalinstability.
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Vietnam
Culture
Traditional Vietnamese culturereflected the influence ofneighboring China. Vietnameseart, architecture, music, andliterature all followed Chineseforms. With the advent of French
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Vietnam
colonialism in the late 19thcentury, however, the influenceof Western culture replaced thatof China. Modern Vietnamesecultural expression combines thesocialist realism of Communistsystems with current trends inthe capitalist world.
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