Impacts of Confucianism on Vietnamese culture

Author(s):  
Hieu Tung Ly
Keyword(s):  
Author(s):  
Phan Thai Binh

Korean and Vietnamese cultures are close but not similar. Korean culture is very hierarchic, ritualized, and it emphasizes its monoculture while Vietnamese culture is characterized by its village democracy with less rituals and its resistance to the cultural imposition. The misperception of cultural similarity has made people in the two countries fall into traps of fake similarities and behave the same as in their native culture. Wrong behavior leads to misunderstanding, and misunderstanding leads to conflict. This paper does not compare the behavioral cultures of the two countries but only mentions a few situations in which the Vietnamese and Koreans behave very differently. Awareness of the differences in behavior between the two cultures can resolve the misunderstandings, conflict and increase cultural integration in companies, multicultural families as well as all citizens involved in activities related to the relation between the two cultures.


Sexual Health ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Rawson ◽  
Pranee Liamputtong

Background: The present paper discusses the impact the traditional Vietnamese culture has on the uptake of mainstream health services for sexual health matters by Vietnamese Australian young women. It is part of a wider qualitative study that explored the factors that shaped the sexual behaviour of Vietnamese Australian young women living in Australia. Methods: A Grounded Theory methodology was used, involving in-depth interviews with 15 Vietnamese Australian young women aged 18 to 25 years who reside in Victoria, Australia. Results: The findings demonstrated that the ethnicity of the general practitioner had a clear impact on the women utilising the health service. They perceived that a Vietnamese doctor would hold the traditional view of sex as held by their parents’ generation. They rationalised that due to cultural mores, optimum sexual health care could only be achieved with a non-Vietnamese health professional. Conclusion: It is evident from the present study that cultural influences can impact on the sexual health of young people from culturally diverse backgrounds and in Australia’s multicultural society, provision of sexual health services must acknowledge the specific needs of ethnically diverse young people.


2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Luong Thi Thu Tran

Vietnam is one of the multi-ethnic nations with a culture deeply imbued with unity in diversity. This type of unity in diversity results from a long process of historical development, becoming a precious cultural heritage in need of careful preservation. From the viewpoints of historical and cultural sciences, the paper focuses on the analysis of the unity in diversity of Vietnamese culture from the angle of Champa cultural intergration into Dai Viet culture since the 19th Century. Since then, Champa culture becomes a member living harmoniously in the big family of Vietnamese culture.


2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 116-124
Author(s):  
Luong Thi Thu Tran

Housing is a cultural achievement in terms of human response to nature. It has a long history of development with the formation and development of human society from prehistoric to modern. Houses are not built from base, from columns but from lifestyles and concepts of life. Therefore, in the basic structure of the organizational culture of material life, housing is one of the three “food – housing – clothes” which deeply absorbed cultural features of the subject. This paper compares the typical similarities and differences in housing in the sequence of the comparative study of the organizational culture of material life of Korean culture and of Vietnamese culture in traditional times.


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