Introduction
The Vietnamese society is tamed to love for the Country, submission to authority which creates a social ordinance, harmony with neighbors that enhances social stability, commitment to marriage, a performance of filial piety and ancestral worship. These values among others shaped the people to be how unique they are today. Holding to the fact that failure to withhold to these morals will render one as a family outcast and social deviant, every Vietnamese strives to maintain a commitment to their cultural essence.
Eye-catching Values
Every unique society must have a set of values to which its citizens pledge their allegiance. With this, the love for Country is central to any other value that Vietnamese may delight therein. It requires devotion to public services, rules of law and respect for fellow citizens. Meanwhile, the culture of Vietnam strongly teaches submission to authority. This enhances social order. It suggests respect to the king and obedience to his authority as well as the authority of other leaders.
Submissive altitude of the people boosts government control over the land. Vietnam is a quiet society, free of political uprising. Since taking over from colonial powers, the country has united under one political doctrine of independence, freedom, happiness, democracy, justice, and civilization. In this light, harmony is considered the fundamental value that all Vietnamese subscribe to with sensitivity.
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Every Vietnamese seek to live and maintain peace with neighbors. The peaceful coexistence of the people and due diligence to societal values is a guarantee for social stability and cultural uniformity in Vietnam. More to this, I must commend Vietnamese for their commitment to filial piety. In this belief, it is predicated upon every Vietnamese to pay due to courtesy to the parents.
Respect to the parents is the assurance of worthy life and apparent evidence of longevity. Filial piety is the act of caring for the parents especially when they are aged. It entails providing them with foods, clothing, shelter, and hospitality. Of course, aging Vietnamese parents would always love to see how adherent their children are to advice.
Happy are the spirits of fallen parents whose children are prepared to continue in the life pattern of the family, organize the family into one unit and protect their territory and hand marks. As it a common belief in Vietnam that the spirits of the dead are guardians to the living, filial piety must, therefore, extend beyond the grave. This belief in fact provided bases for ancestral worship.
In Vietnam, your parents’ spirits are influential in determining your fate. If they are not pleased with you while alive, they will not be pleased with you in the spirit world. As it was a common saying: Duong Van Elliot, p 10 (Vietnamese believe that justice beyond the grave is still at work. The souls of those who are wronged would come back to seek revenge against the perpetrator). Therefore, it behooves every Vietnamese most to establish the bases of a good relationship with the ancestor’s spirits
Marriage
Marriage is regarded as an honorable endeavor that every woman seeks to have a married home in order to merit respect. For this reason, Vietnamese women were faithfully committed to their marriage. No matter what; concentration was always placed on family development and relentless submission to the husband. The tradition of Vietnam was so strong that one could not be spared for breach of its practices. Married women have always tried to avoid contempt and marital unfaithfulness, reason that any woman could be easily divorced for.
However, modernization has modified most of the traditional practices in Vietnam. Women are now accorded the right to education rather than a mere housewife. The exemplified life lived by Trinh Thi Hue in Mai Elliot Silk Merchant has set different dimension women to take nowadays to compete for education, commerce, wealth and other professional careers that further enhance national growth and development.
My Perception
I know that the people of pre-modern Vietnam consistently fought a war, a major cause of the destruction of lives and properties in human society. Like in my Country, the war did not only destroy lives and properties, but it also disintegrates every good system in the country.
On this note, I perceived Vietnam to be extremely conservative toward guiding its surviving cultural heritage, and I also supposed that the country would be a disjointed society with more illiterate people due to its long-term of political instability. But contrary to what I perceived, Vietnam is an open-minded futuristic country with the highly schooled populace. Its coherent Social order and love toward every people of color demand gratitude for its traditional practices.
Conclusion
Contrary to the challenges post to most developing countries to maintain social order, respect for others and harmony, Vietnamese do not only enjoy political independence, freedom, and equal opportunity propagated by modernization, they also live in the wealth of compassion, diligence and overall patriotism that shape them to be how unique they are today. Truly again, tolerance, benevolence, and heartedness are the fundamental description of average Vietnamese.
Reference
- The Sacred Willow (Duong Van Mai Elliot http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/refugee/globalbbviet.pdf
- Religious Studies Review Vol. 1, No. 2 – October 2007
- Religious Life in Vietnamese History NGUYỄN DUY HINH* UNIVERSITY OF NHA TRANG DEPARTMENT OF FOOD TECHNOLOGY MSc. PROGRAM IN FOOD TECHNOLOGY ACADEMIC YEAR: 2018 SEMESTER I Course: (GS505)
- Introduction to Vietnamese Culture First Assignment: Vietnamese through the portrait of the Duong Family To: Nguyen Thi Ngan, Ph.D Compiled by: Sonkarlay Karnue Date: November 09, 2018
