White Like Koreans

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-40
Author(s):  
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
Keyword(s):  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
New Form ◽  
To Come

Based on interviews and observations of cosmetics retailers and shoppers at several malls in Ho Chi Minh City, this chapter considers how cosmetics consumption inaugurated a new form of what scholar Jonathan Reinarz termed “skinliteracy” in Vietnam. Though purchases of prestige cosmetics far outpace those of luxury clothing, sales are not easy to come by. Retailers instruct customers to consider a product’s national origins—French, Scottish, Japanese, Korean, and American products were seen as quite distinct—to ensure “suitability” (hop) with their own “Vietnamese” skin. As such, this chapterargues that the language of “land” and “landscape” that dominates discussions of cosmetics works to narrate women’s consumption as a reflection of their nation’s standing, and to foster a feeling and imagination about which nations might serve as “suitable” models and allies. In this sense, cosmetics consumption becomes a way women narrate their experiences of development and their feelings about the modernity enveloping them.

Clinical features of HIV/AIDS patients presenting to an inner city clinic in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 482-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A Klotz ◽  
Hao Cong Nguyen ◽  
Tam Van Pham ◽  
Liem Thanh Nguyen ◽  
Dong Thi Anh Ngo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Count ◽  
Opportunistic Infections ◽  
Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis ◽  
Pneumocystis Carinii ◽  
Population Data ◽  
World Health ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Cd4 Cell Count ◽  
To Come ◽  
Cd4 Cell

An outpatient HIV clinic was opened in March 2005 in Binh Thanh District, a poor section of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Over 1500 patients were seen in the first year. The average age of patients was 27 years. Men represented 77% of the clinic population, women, 23% and children under the age of 16 years of age, 5% of the population. The most common risk factor among men was being an injecting drug user (IDU), 76%, and among women, being married to an IDU HIV-positive man, 35%. Physical signs of disease were uncommon: lymphadenopathy in 24% and hepatomegaly and splenomegaly in 4% and 3%, respectively. Men and women were anaemic at presentation, with a mean haemoglobin of 11.9 g/dL and 11.1 g/dL, respectively. An overwhelming majority of patients had profound immunodeficiency. The mean CD4+ cell count was 164 cells/mL and the median was 69 cells/mL. No correlation was found between the World Health Organization's stage of disease and the CD4+ cell count. Thus, the former is a poor predictor of immunity in this population. Data regarding opportunistic infections diagnosed at the first visit were studied. Candidiasis of the oral pharynx, oesophagus or vagina was found in 34.5% of the patients, and pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis was found in 32% of the patients. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) was diagnosed in only 3% of the patients. Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis is advocated for HIV-infected Vietnamese, but the incidence of PCP is negligible and resources could be spent elsewhere. The various opportunistic infections seen in this resource-poor clinic setting is likely to be a pattern of presentation of HIV-infected Vietnamese for some time to come.

Events Reconsidered

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Weiner ◽  
Chris Stringer
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Meeting ◽  
Real Importance ◽  
New Form ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One ◽  
Work Done

It is unfortunately not possible to follow in any detail every stage of Smith Woodward’s activities at Piltdown. No diaries or note-books exist of the work done, there is nowhere a complete record of the various finds as they were made. Woodward kept copies of very few of his own letters and we have only the letters written to him and now preserved at the British Museum. When the American palaeontologist Osborn came over in 1920, Woodward dictated some notes which help to allocate the various discoveries. Apart from these notes and the one-sided record of the correspondence, there are only the reports in the scientific literature and popular lectures on Piltdown as primary sources. Woodward does not appear in general to have been a secretive man, but over the Piltdown material he went to some lengths to keep the whole affair as quiet as possible until near the time of the public meeting in December 1912. He did not consult any of his colleagues in the Museum about the finds or about the interpretation he was to place on them. Mr. Hinton says that to his colleagues at South Kensington Woodward’s diagnosis of E. dawsoni came as a surprise mingled with some dismay, for there was much scepticism of the new form amongst his museum colleagues, including Oldfield Thomas and Hinton himself. They would have advised caution, he says. Keith knew nothing of the events in Sussex until rumours reached him in November. He wrote asking for a view of the exciting material, but on his visit on 2 December to the Museum he was received rather coldly and allowed a short twenty minutes. But, judging from Dawson’s letters in 1912, it seems fair to say that Woodward was merely seeking to avoid a premature disclosure, for he had decided early on that Piltdown would indeed prove a sensational event. Woodward did not want any of Dawson’s ‘lay’ friends to come along on his first visit to the gravel when he had yet to make up his mind about the real importance of Dawson’s find and of the necessity for systematic excavation.

scholarly journals Identify the correlation between the teaching perspectives and student evaluation: A case study of a sample university in Ho Chi Minh city

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 03002
Author(s):  
Huy Nguyen ◽  
Radim Briš
Keyword(s):  
Strong Correlation ◽  
Student Evaluation ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Course Evaluations ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Teaching Perspectives ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
New Form

Education is a critical issue in any cultural background. In fact, the quality of teaching shall be considered and linked with student evaluation because there seems to have a strong correlation between them. This study aims to understand the different perspectives on teaching by academic staffs of a university X in Ho Chi Minh City and also is to determine whether there are one or two dominant teaching perspective preferences. In addition, the students’ comments were also collected and investigated to identify whether or not there are relationships between these dominant teaching perspectives and student end-of-course evaluations. Finally, the researcher proposed a new form of evaluation to help measure better students’ expectations.

scholarly journals Radical Hope or the Moral Imperative of Images in the Work of Susan Sontag Jean-Luc Godard

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 487-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Idit Alphandary
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
The Self ◽  
Moral Imperative ◽  
Susan Sontag ◽  
Life Challenges ◽  
The World ◽  
The Gift ◽  
New Form ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One

In the films For Ever Mozart, In Praise of Love and I Salute You Sarajevo, Go-dard’s images introduce radical hope to the world. I will demonstrate that this hope represents an ethical posture in the world; it is identical to goodness. Radical hope is grounded in the victim’s witnessing, internalizing and remembering catastrophe, while at the same time holding onto the belief that a variation of the self will survive the disaster. In The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida argues that choosing to belong to the disaster is equivalent to giving the pure gift, or to goodness itself, and that it suggests a new form of responsibility for one’s life, as well as a new form of death. For Derrida, internalizing catastrophe is identical to death—a death that surpasses one’s means of giving. Such death can be reciprocated only by reinstating goodness or the law in the victim’s or the giver’s existence. The relation of survival to the gift of death—also a gift of life—challenges us to rethink our understanding of the act of witnessing. This relation also adds nuance to our appreciation of the intellectual, emotional and mental affects of the survival of the victim and the testimony and silence of the witness, all of which are important in my analysis of radical hope. On the one hand, the (future) testimony of the witness inhabits the victim or the ravaged self (now), on the other hand, testimony is not contemporaneous with the shattered ego. This means that testimony is anterior to the self or that the self that survives the disaster has yet to come into existence through making testimony material. Testimony thus exists before and beyond disaster merely as an ethical posture—a “putting-oneself-to-death or offering-one’s-death, that is, one’s life, in the ethical dimension of sacrifice,” in the words of Derrida. The witness is identical to the victim whose survival will include an unknown, surprising testimony or an event of witnessing. The testimony discloses the birth or revelation of a new self. And yet this new self survives through assuming the position of the witness even while s/he is purely the victim of catastrophe, being put to death owning the “kiss of death.”

New Diary Realms

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Lounsberry
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
New Novel ◽  
New Form ◽  
Modernist Novel ◽  
To Come ◽  
Jacob's Room

Woolf seeks out new realms in her 1920 diary. In January, she wonders how far she should allow herself to report indiscretion in her diary. In March, she ponders something more profound: whether she can write “a diary of the soul.” In April, she considers whether her diary can “trench upon literature”—another (but related) realm, as the soul holds her “precious art.” On her thirty-eighth birthday, January 25, 1920, she had conceived of “a new form for a new novel”—her first modernist novel, Jacob’s Room. Declaring that she could “think [herself] a novelist” if she could record “talk,” Woolf experiments across her 1920 diary with different ways to render conversations. She practices, in short, for her public prose. In April, she is sent W.N.P. Barbellion’s famous Journal of a Disappointed Man. It spurs her exploration of the soul, offers her half the plot of Mrs. Dalloway, and helps her envision To the Lighthouse to come. In October, she publishes a lengthy commemorative essay on John Evelyn’s diary, probing the diary’s power—and also how this seventeenth-century diarist differs from his contemporary descendants.

Some Operating Problems of Future Transport Aircraft

1952 ◽  
Vol 56 (495) ◽  
pp. 189-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Dykes
Keyword(s):  
Prime Mover ◽  
Piston Engine ◽  
Transport Aircraft ◽  
New Form ◽  
To Come ◽  
Small Aircraft

To judge by the newspapers, the day of the turbine powered transport aircraft is already here. This is not to say that the piston engine is no longer required; probably it will be in use for many years to come, particularly for small aircraft, but new major designs must certainly be planned so as to take advantage of this revolutionary new form of prime mover.

scholarly journals Factors affecting the satisfaction of companies on service quality in industrial zones in Ho Chi Minh City

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 94-107
Author(s):  
Tinh Phu Tran Do ◽  
Nen Van Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Exploratory Analysis ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Regression Estimation ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
To Come ◽  
Industrial Zones ◽  
The Impact

The research focuses on exploratory analysis of factors that affect the satisfaction of companies on service quality in industrial zones in Ho Chi Minh City. In addition, regression analysis is implemented to measure the impact of these factors on companies’ satisfaction. The exploratory analysis indicates that four factors that determine service quality of industrial zones in Ho Chi Minh City are: (i) tangibility; (ii) service attitude of the managers and the industrial zones’s investors; (iii) responsiveness; and (iv) empathy. The regression estimation shows that the four factors above affect the satisfaction of companies in the same direction. In particular, tangibility and service attitude of the managers and the industrial zones’s investors have the strongest impacts. These important findings can serve as a ground for industrial zones in Ho Chi Minh City to make appropriate adjustments and for industrial zones which are about to come into operation to have necessary preparations in order to better meet requirements of companies.

scholarly journals Some challenges for the youth in suburban areas of Ho Chi Minh City - Case study in Binh Tan district

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Trang Thi Thu Ngo ◽  
Thuy Thi Thu Chau
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Suburban Areas ◽  
Space Expansion ◽  
To Come ◽  
Industrial Zones ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews

Urbanization is an inevitable trend of developing countries. Urbanization process is going on in Vietnam, especially in Ha Noicapital and Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh City attracted the majority of the youth from provinces to come and work in industrial zones, export processing zones located in suburban areas (of the City). The population growth along with the increased demand for services did promote the expansion of urban land. Fast urban space expansion has posed a lot of challenges for young people especially in terms of lifestyle. Will these youth be susceptible to the bad side of society in the transition from rural to urban areas? The author has chosen to study the area of Binh Tan District in Ho Chi Minh City where high spontaneous urbanization takes place. Through field observations, the author observed life in the studied area which was Binh Tri Dong B Ward, Binh Tan District with the implementation of in-depth interviews for 45 subjects in three population groups under study such as: local people, new residents and immigrants. By method of interdisciplinary research in terms of sociology and geography, the author found out some challenges that the youth face in the process of suburban urbanization

scholarly journals STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN HO CHI MINH CITY: A CASE STUDY AT HO CHI MINH CITY CADRE ACADEMY

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Student Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Come ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Starting A Business

In the context of the 4th industrial revolution, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore entrepreneurship. Starting a business is expected to create economic growth, make positive contributions to socio-economic development. It is gradually emerging and becoming a topic of much interest from researchers and businesses. So far, however, there has been little discussion about student entrepreneurship. The present research examines the perception and attitude of Ho Chi Minh City students towards entrepreneurial activity through a case study at Ho Chi Minh City Cadre Academy. Specifically, the study addresses the following questions: 1/attitude towards entrepreneurship 2/ reasons for students to be confident to start a business 3/ reasons for students to be not self-confident to start a business. This study employed questionnaires and in-depth interviews as methods to come to the results of the research. The authors selected a non-probability sampling of 240 students in classes of 5 majors at Ho Chi Minh City Cadre Academy for the questionnaire. The findings of this study suggest that the percentage of students who are not confident in starting a business is higher than that of those who are self-confident. The study also finds out the social factors affecting students’ confidence in starting a business and why they are not confident of entrepreneurship.

SCOTTISH PERSPECTIVES ON WAR AND PATRIOTISM IN THE 1790s

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNA PLASSART
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
National Sentiment ◽  
New Form ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The French Revolution

ABSTRACTThe article examines Scottish discussions surrounding the French revolutionary wars in the early and mid-1790s. It argues that these discussions were not built along the lines of the dispute that set Burke against the English radicals, because arguments about French ‘cosmopolitan’ love for mankind were largely irrelevant in the context of Smithian moral philosophy. The Scottish writers who observed French developments in the period (including the Edinburgh Moderates, James Mackintosh, John Millar, and Lord Lauderdale) were, however, particularly interested in what they interpreted as France's changing notion of patriotism, and built upon the heritage of Smithian moral philosophy in order to offer original and powerful commentaries of French national feeling and warfare. They identified the ‘enthusiastic’ nature of French national sentiment, and the replacement of traditional patriotism with a new form of relationship between the individual and the nation, as the most significant and dangerous element to come out of the French Revolution.

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