Applying the fundamental course concepts

Society KEY POINT - respect to elders

Culture

Persons

Environment

Time

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

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)

tropical monsoon belt - floods that devastate the country (society has had to adapt to these being a part of their life)

collective focus to individualism focus - caused by consumerism

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

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)

looking at past and present trends to predict the future

the history of Vietnam makes it how it is now