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

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

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