scholarly journals Villages, Customary Laws and Community Management of Ethnic Minority Groups in the Central Highlands

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Tuyen Mong Thi Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Central Highland ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Customary Laws ◽  
Central Highlands

Vietnam has been fundamentally an agricultural country and consequently, rural areas with farmers play a critical role in its socio-economic development. As villages and communes are foundational social structures of the agricultural society, they have been the focal points in the development process throughout the history, especially during the modernization and industrialization of the country. For ethnic minority groups in the Central Highlands, despite their relative low socio-economic development level, the social relations are community – based, which forms the potential strength of the nation. Socio-economic development and village management have become central tasks set forth by the Party and the national government of Vietnam. The goals are to foster the development of the Central Highland villages while protect them from adversary derivative conditions, creating prerequisite conditions for the region’s integration with the market economy that is being formed and developed. With the development trend, the tools for managing and regulating basic social relations are customary laws and State laws. In this paper, we discuss a traditional form of society which is the village and its customary laws as solutions to developing advanced social relations, enhancing the internal power of the region, creating a driving force for the country.

Growing up in Diverse Societies

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Children Of Immigrants ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Ethnic Segregation ◽  
Wide Range

Growing up in Diverse Societies provides a comprehensive analysis of the integration of the children of immigrants in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, based on the ‘Children of immigrants longitudinal survey in four European countries’ (CILS4EU), including harmonised interviews with almost 19,000 14- to 15-year-olds. The book studies the life situation, social relations, and attitudes of adolescents in different ethnic minority groups, and compares these systematically to majority youth in the four countries. The chapters cover a wide range of aspects of integration, all addressing comparisons between origin groups, generations, and destination countries, and elucidating processes accounting for differences. The results challenge much current thinking and simplified views on the state of integration. In some aspects, such as own economic means, delinquency, and mental health, children of immigrants are surprisingly similar to majority youth, while in other aspects there are large dissimilarities. There are also substantial differences between ethnic minority groups, with the economic and cultural distance of the origin regions to the destination country being a key factor. For some outcomes, such as language proficiency or host country identification, dissimilarities seem to narrow over generations, but this does not hold for other outcomes, such as religiosity and attitudes. Remaining differences partly depend on ethnic segregation, some on socioeconomic inequality, and others on parental influences. Most interestingly, the book finds that the four destination countries, though different in their immigration histories, policy approaches, and contextual conditions, are on the whole similar in the general patterns of integration and in the underlying processes.

scholarly journals Forest and Forestry Ecocultural System in Central Highlands, Vietnam

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Van Kim ◽  
Ho Thanh Tam
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Central Highland ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Central Highlands

Abstract: In the mindset of ethnic minority communities in Vietnam, Northeastern region, Northwestern regions and Truong Son-Central Highlands refers to a forest-related & cultural ecosystem. Especially, both living space and social space of the ethnic minorities in Truong Son - Central Highlands are deeply forest-related. Researchers often call it "mountainous culture", "highland culture" or "upland culture". Similar to many other ethnic minority groups in the North East and North West, those in Central Highland have long “eaten” the forest, have their livelihood based on forest, and shelter in wild highlands without any previous human footprints. They believe that deep forests, high mountains, and watershed forests are sacred, where gods situate in and therefore needed to be strictly protected. However, wars, reclamation, economic development policies, consequences of migration and other reasons have significantly destroyed the forestry ecocultural system in Central Highlands, Vietnam. Ecological environment has been ruined rapidly while cultural spaces have also been seriously damaged. This article aims to examine roles of the forests in the preservation of traditional cultural values ​​of the Central Highlands, and from which, provide recommendations to ensure green and sustainable development for local communities in the Central Highlands in particular and Vietnam in general. Keywords: Forestry ecocultural system, forestry village, sustainble development for the Central Highlands.

Gene-environment Interaction on the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Among Ethnic Minority Populations Living in Europe and North America: A Systematic Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 457-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad H. Zafarmand ◽  
Parvin Tajik ◽  
René Spijker ◽  
Charles Agyemang
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
North America ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Gene Environment Interaction ◽  
Gene Environment

Background: The body of evidence on gene-environment interaction (GEI) related to type 2 diabetes (T2D) has grown in the recent years. However, most studies on GEI have sought to explain variation within individuals of European ancestry and results among ethnic minority groups are inconclusive. Objective: To investigate any interaction between a gene and an environmental factor in relation to T2D among ethnic minority groups living in Europe and North America. Methods: We systematically searched Medline and EMBASE databases for the published literature in English up to 25th March 2019. The screening, data extraction and quality assessment were performed by reviewers independently. Results: 1068 studies identified through our search, of which nine cohorts of six studies evaluating several different GEIs were included. The mean follow-up time in the included studies ranged from 5 to 25.7 years. Most studies were relatively small scale and few provided replication data. All studies included in the review included ethnic minorities from North America (Native-Americans, African- Americans, and Aboriginal Canadian), none of the studies in Europe assessed GEI in relation to T2D incident in ethnic minorities. The only significant GEI among ethnic minorities was HNF1A rs137853240 and smoking on T2D incident among Native-Canadians (Pinteraction = 0.006). Conclusion: There is a need for more studies on GEI among ethnicities, broadening the spectrum of ethnic minority groups being investigated, performing more discovery using genome-wide approaches, larger sample sizes for these studies by collaborating efforts such as the InterConnect approach, and developing a more standardized method of reporting GEI studies are discussed.

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