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Applying the fundamental course concepts - Coggle Diagram
Applying the fundamental course concepts
Society KEY POINT - respect to elders
Saving Face
- politeness is highly valued
Education
Plays a key role in society, as teachers are held in highest respect
family (respect to elders)
the generation of leaders that brought
Independence and unified Vietnam
Society is based on Confucius values that place family as the most important part of society
Filial Piety
Culture
french bakeries
frantic street lifestyle - US influence
language reflects Vietnamese history through the use of french and Vietnamese terms (quick adoption of English as universal language)
Persons
collective focus to individualism focus - caused by consumerism
Continuity of Confucianism - working in services , contributing to the 'common good'
individualism - intrinsic component of western life
self discipline - Guerilla wars - placing the country before the individual (living underground in village for years)
Environment
tropical monsoon belt - floods that devastate the country (society has had to adapt to these being a part of their life)
dropping of bombs during the war had devastating effects
agent orange used by US troops - unusable land. They used it in an attempt to deal with the thick jungles the Vietnamese soldiers were using to their dvantage
Time
looking at past and present trends to predict the future
the history of Vietnam makes it how it is now