For these reasons, we chose this topic ‘The nation’s traditional values and their roles on building new lifestyle for Vietnamese students in the context of globalization’ as our thesis e
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NGUYEN THI THANH HA
THE VALUE OF TRADITIONAL MORALITY iN THE
BUILDING OF NEW LIFESTYLE FOR VIETNAMESE STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION
Major : Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism
Student Code : 62 22 80 05
Summary of the philosophic thesis
Hµ Néi - 2014
Trang 2Academy of Politics and Public Administration
Instructors: Assoc Professor, Dr Nguyen The Kiet
Assoc Professor, Dr Hoang Anh
Critic 1:
Critic 2:
Critic 3:
The thesis will be proven at Academy level by board of examiners at
Ho Chi Minh National Academy Politics and Public Administration
Time:
The thesis is availble at: The National Library and the Library of Ho Chi
Minh Academy of Politics and Public Administration
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1.1 The necessity of the research.
Every member of the society needs to know their past and each nationhas to know its history One country will lose if it does not know its origin.The traditional ethics is prominent among many valuable traditions ofVietnam It has been existing along with different stages of development ofthe country from building, keeping and developing It is the transferenceamong different generations and different socioeconomic patterns.Therefore, it is necessary to promote traditional values, especially ethnicvalue, in order to build new lifestyle for Vietnamese people in general andstudents in particular This is also an urgent requirement for the career ofinnovating and modernizing of the country The documents of the 10thmeeting of the communist party confirm to: build and complete the valueand dignity for the Vietnamese; preserve and promote the national character
in the periods of industrializing, modernizing and globalizing; cultivatecultural value among the youth in general and students in particular,focusing on the life ideal, life styles, intelligence capacity, ethics andcultural stuff of Vietnamese people Students are a great force who isintellect, active and quick to learn the new things in all fields of life
The value of traditional ethnics is a factor which creates the culturalcharacter of the country In the development stages of the country, the ethnicvalue is also an interior and indispensible factor, which helps to push themovement and development of the culture
There is no doubt that there is close relationship between traditionalethnic value and the building of new lifestyles However, the question is inthe market economy and globalization, what are the roles of the traditionalethnic value? Is it a block or a motivation? Or is it an orientation factor forthe building of new lifestyles? And what will be the content andrequirement for the promotion of national traditional values for Vietnameseyoung learners? What are the methods and solutions to promote newlifestyles for students?
Therefore, in order to build new way of life, we have been continuing toincrease the awareness of the society in general and young learners inparticular about the roles and the importance of traditional ethnic value Thisraises many problems: how do students have right ways in modern societywhere many ethnic values have been changing; how students will have realemotion, right attitudes and solid belief to build their own way of life It is
Trang 4the traditional value which has an important role in creating particularlifestyle of the Vietnamese The degradation of ethnic value and lifestyle hasbeen occurring complicatedly Its manifestation cannot be ignored anymore.Egoistical and pragmatic way of life has become common, which is aserious problem for our society In the tenth Meeting of the CommunistParty, we judged that: ‘The statement of degradation in people’s ethnics,lifestyle and the increase in social evils and crimes have become a worryingproblem, especially in the young.’
Therefore, we can recognize the vital role of career of ‘human.Promoting the nation’s tradition value is vital, which is to build newlifestyle for students Hence, the study on the role of nation’s traditionvalue for Vietnamese learners is an urgent issue For these reasons, we
chose this topic ‘The nation’s traditional values and their roles on building new lifestyle for Vietnamese students in the context of globalization’ as our thesis essay topic in the field of Philosophy.
1.2 The aims of the research
1.2.1 The general aims
Bring out the importance, real statements of the promotion of thenation’s tradition value for building new lifestyle for students; proposemethods and some major solutions in order to promote the nation’s traditionvalue in building new lifestyle for Vietnamese students in the context ofglobalization
1.2.2 The specific aims
- Bring out the importance, real statements of the promotion of thenation’s tradition value for building new lifestyle for students in the context
of globalization
- Analyze, evaluate real statements of the promotion of the nation’stradition value for building new lifestyle for students in the context ofglobalization and rising problems
- Propose methods and some major solutions in order to promote thenation’s traditional value in building new lifestyle for Vietnamese students
in the context of globalization
1.3 Subjects and scope of the research
1.3.1 Subjects of the research: Building new lifestyle for young
people in Vietnam is a big problem and consists of different aspects Thisthesis just focuses on the value of the nation’s ethnic traditions and promotesits role on the building new ways of life for the young in the context ofglobalization
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students Data is collected mainly in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city in theperiod from 1986 up to now
2 Theoretical base and research methods
- The theories of this research are mainly based on the viewpoints ofMarxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh’s thought, political line of the VietnamCommunist Party on ethnics, nation’s traditional value, lifestyle of theyoung learners Besides, the thesis is also based on science achievements ofresearch work inside and outside the country, which are related to the topic
of the thesis
- Different research methods were used: historical and logical,analyzing and synthetic, comparative, social investigation in order to fulfillthe purpose of the research
3 Significations of the study
- The thesis plays an important role in regconizing the importance ofthe value of nation’s tradition in building new lifestyle for Vietnamesecollege students in the context of globalization
- It provides the real situation of promoting traditional value onbuilding new way of life for Vietnamese college students
- It also proposes lines of actions and some solutions in order topromote the value of nation’s tradition in building new lifestyle forVietnamese college students in the context of globalization
4 Theoretical and practical significations of the study
- The thesis plays an important role in regconizing the importance ofthe value of nation’s tradition in building new lifestyle for Vietnamesecollege students in the context of globalization
- The thesis can be used as a reference for organizations, individualswho work with students and take part in activities with students
- The thesis can be used as reference in later researches and to teach incolleges and institudes
5 Outline of the research
The research consists of the introductions, conclusion, lists ofreferences, appendices, contents (which has 4 chapters and 12 parts)
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1.1 REVIOUS RESEARCHES ON LIFESTYLES; LIFESTYLES OF THE STUDENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF NEW LIFESTYLES OF VIETNAMESE STUDENTS
Vietnam in 80s of the previous century, there were researches which
provided theoretical problems about life, such as ‘Discuss the socialist lifestyle’ written by a group of writers: Tran Do (chief author), published in
1985 Writer Tuong Lai mentioned the relationship between ethnics and
lifestyle in ‘Building new ethnic values positively and actively’, (1983) The
author emphasized that ‘our new ethnics should be expressed in lifestyles ofworkers’
During 90s of the 19th century, in the renewal period, there witnessedgreat changes in economy, society…, which initially described the vividpicture of real lifestyle of the north, students and recommended educationalmethods for their new lifestyle An example of these is Do Long, whostudied the relationship between ways of life and incarnation for the young
in the book : ‘Lifestyle and personality of young people’ (1996) The
Institude of educational developmnent (Ministry of Education) studied
‘Lifestyle characteristics among students- directions and educational methods ’ (1995), code B94-38-32, observed by Mac Van Trang This work
defined what students’ lifestyle was and listed all main characteristics ofstudents’ lifestyle, which manifested through specific activities, behaviourand personal life
Thanh Le (chief author) of ‘Lifestyle in socialist society and globalization’ (2001) deeply analyzed the term ‘lifestyle’ In the context of
globalization, lifestyle is a ‘trouble-spot’ It is valuable to prove theprominence of ‘socialist lifestyle’ This is totally suitable with the context of
Vietnam when it is in a transition period ‘Building idea, ethics, lifestyle and cultural life in Hanoi in the period of industrialism and modernism’ written
by Nguyen Viet Chuc (chief author, 2001) mentioned the importance andnecessity of building idea, ethnics, lifestyle and cultural life in Hanoi, thecapital city of Vietnam
‘Something about ways of life, ethics and standard of social value’ (by
Huynh Khai Vinh, 2001) shows that: lifestyle, ethnics and standard of socialvalue are fundamental factors in every personal life Ethics plays the role asreasons for living; people’s behavior and social regulation form the culture
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lifestyle of the young and students in his work named ‘Real statement of ethics, political thought, lifestyle of young people and students’ posted in
Education Magazine number 3 (2002); Nguyen Van Huyen discussed
‘Lifestyle of Vietnamese people in the context of globalization’ (2003)
When analyzing national cultural character, Assoc.Professor-Dr Le NhuHoa concerned about lifestyle, urban lifestyle in the current period, which
was written in her book named ‘The national character in modern lifestyle’
(published by Cultural Institute and Culture-Information Publishing house,
Hanoi, 2003) Researcher Nguyen Thi Hang has a thesis named ‘Finding out about lifestyle of students in Ho Chi Minh city through their leisure activities’ (2004).
A recent research by a group of authors (Nguyen Ngoc Ha- chief author)
studied ‘The characteristics of thinking and lifestyle of Vietnamese people nowadays: Some theoretical and practical problems’ (2011) The research
reveals that the thinking and lifestyle can importantly affect on people’sactivities and the socioeconomic development Another work is ‘Buildingethic culture and cultural lifestyle in the context of economic market andintegration’ (Political argument – number 7/2013)
1.2 RESEARCHES ON VALUE, TRADITIONAL ETHIC VALUES, VIETNAM TRADITONAL ETHIC VALUES THE IMPACT OF
GLOBALIZATION ON PROMOTING THE VALUE OF VIETNAM’S
TRADITONAL ETHICS
Many scientists have a lot of studies in order to recognized traditionalmoral value, which is taken into consideration when building cultural lifeand Vietnamese people in the career of socialist revolution Some of
outstanding work are ‘Finding out about the nation’s character’ by
professor Nguyen Hong Phong (published by Science Publishing house,
Hanoi, 1963) ; ‘New ethics’ by professor Vu Khieu (chief author) (Science and social publishing house, Hanoi, 1974) ; ‘Positively and actively building new ethics’ by Tuong Lai, (Truth publishing house, Hanoi, 1983) ; ‘The value of nation’s tradition’ by professor Tran Van Giau (Science and social
publishing house, Hanoi, 1980)
Apart from these, there are also lots of works on ethics, such as:
‘Communist moral principles’ by A.Sixkin, (Truth publishing house,Hanoi, 1961) In this book, the author confirmed the opinion based onMarxism about the root of ethics; that ethics is a social form; ethics relates
to tradition habit, custom, which reveals the relationship among people in
Trang 8their daily lives ‘Ethics’, volumns 1 and 2 by G.Bandzeladze, (Educationpublishing house, Hanoi, 1985) analyzed and explained the role of ethics,mada clear lots of social ethic phenomenon and the relationship betweenethics and the humane.
In addition, problems of traditional value in general and traditionalethic value in particular are studied by many authors to confirm the role oftraditional ethic value, the necessity of protecting, preserving and promotingthese values in building new society Hereafter are many other works of
different authors: ‘About cultural moral value of Vietnam’ (groups of
authors, including 2 volumns, Arguing and Information publishing house,
Hanoi, 1983); ‘Traditional moral value of Vietnamese people’ of professor
Tran Van Giau, Ho Chi Minh Publishing house (republished in 1983);
‘Grasp the dialectical relationship between economy and ethics in innovating people’s thinking’ (Nguyen Ngoc Long, 1987) ; ‘Investigating Vietnamese youth’s valued orientation in the market economy’ written by
chief authorThai Duy Tuyen (national political publishing house, Hanoi,
1994); ‘Value- Orienting personal value and education value’ by chief
author Nguyen Quang Uan, April, 1995
The entire innovation of the country reveals many problems which willchallenge the new society Therefore, ethic problems should be analysed inthe market economy where it may be affected by many complicated factors
To cope up with this, a group of authors including Associate Professor,Doctor Nguyen Chi My (chief author), Associate Professor, Doctor NguyenThe Kiet, Associate Professor, Doctor Nguyen Tinh Gia, Professor TranPhuc Thang, Associate Professor, Doctor Tran Hau Kiem, AssociateProfessor, Doctor Tran Thanh, Associate Professor, Doctor Tran Van Phong
had the work named ‘Changes in ethic standard in the market economy with building new ethic value for managing officers in Vietnam nowadays.’ In
this book, authors mentioned new terms on ethics, interpret changes in ethicstandard in the market economy Thence, they recommend methods andsolutions for new ethic value, build new ethic for managing officers in thesocialist-oriented market economy
Professor, doctor Nguyen Trong Chuan and Associate Professor, doctor
Nguyen Van Huyen (co-chief author) of the work named ‘The traditional value faces the challenge of the globalization’ (2002), consisting of pieces of
writing about Vietnam tradition values and current problems in the context
of globalization There are also some other work like ‘Vietnam traditional values to face the challenge of globalization’ (2002) by Professor, Doctor
Trang 9Do Huy, and ‘International integration: opportunities and challenges for traditional value in globalization’ by Professor, Doctor Nguyen Trong Chuan (2004); work of Professor Tran Dinh Huou with ‘To modern from tradition’ published by KZ-07.
To discuss ethics, ethic value, there are some works like ‘Vietnam traditional ethic values and global popularity of ethics in the market economy’
by Tran Nguyen Viet (Philosogy magazine, Number 5, 2002); ‘From traditional ‘goodness’’ to ‘goodness’ in the market economy in Vietnam today’
by Professor Nguyen Hung Hau (Philosogy magazine, Number 8, 2002);
‘Ethic norm of a political leader nowadays’ by Associate Professor, Doctor Tran Van Phong (Philosogy magazine, Number 5, 2003); ‘Promoting Vietnam traditional love in the current period’ by Nguyen Thi Nga (Communist magazine, number 1, 2006); author Mai Thi Quy with ‘The Effect of globalization on industriousness and saving practice of Vietnamese people’
(Philosophy, number 5/2007)
Associate Professor, Doctor Nguyen The Kiet (2006) discussed some
traditional ethic values through ‘Some ethic value of Vietnam: From tradition to Ho Chi Minh’ (Theoretical politics magazine, number 7, 2006).
The author of ‘The issue of ethic Maxism and building ethics in the currentmarket economy’ (2012) made clear the change of ethic standard under theimpact of the market economy in Vietnam, so that it is necessary to haveoriented solutions in order to build ethics and against the degradation ofethics, lifestyle as well
1.3 RESEARCH WORKS ON THE ROLES, REAL SITUATION AND REASONS OF TRADITIONAL ETHIC VALUES IN BUILDING NEW WAYS
OF LIFE FOR VIETNAMESE COLLEGE STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION
Scientists have studied and published a lot of works which have hightheoretical as well as practical values, in which we can name: Nguyen Khac
Vinh with ‘Building ethic lifestyle and social standard to develop people’
(Theoretical Information Magazine, number 3, 1999); the philosophy thesis
by Tran Sy Phan ‘Educating ethics with forming and developing students’ characteristics for Vietnamese students’ (Hanoi Academy of Politics, Hanoi, 1999); ‘Ethic ideals and educating ethic ideals for the youth nowadays’ by
Doan Van Khiem (Philosophy magazine, number 2, 2001);
Author Vo Minh Tuan analyzed the expression of students’ ethics under
the impact of globalization through his work ‘The impact of globalization on students’ ethics nowadays’ (Philosophy magazine, number 4-155, 2004);
Trang 10Dang Quang Thanh, in his philosophy thesis, studied ‘Building socialist oriented lifestyle for the young in Ho Chi Minh city in the period of renewal’ (2005); ‘Building cultural lifestyle for students in Ha Noi today’ (2005) by
1.4 RESEARCH WORKS ON RECOMMENDED METHODS AND
SOLUTIONS, INHERITANCE AND PROMOTION OF THE NATION’S
TRADITIONAL VALUES IN BUILDING LIFESTYLE FOR VIETNAMESE
PEOPLE: IN BUILDING STUDENTS’ LIFESTYLE IN GENERAL AND IN
THE GLOBALIZATION IN PARTICULAR
Luu Thu Thuy (2000), in her summary record of a national conference,
discussed ‘Real situation and solutions for educating ethics, political ideas, lifestyle for the youth and students in Vietnam’ Basing on the real situation
of students’ ethics, ideal, lifestyle, she recommended some practical
solutions in order to educate, inherit and promote ethic value, nation’s
tradition value for students
In August, 2004, the Institute of Vietnam social science published the
results of the thesis ‘Social ethics in Vietnam nowadays – Problems and solutions’ by Professor, Academician Nguyen Duy Qui (chief author) and
other noble authors like: Professor Nguyen Duc Binh, Professor Vu Khieu,Professor Nguyen Trong Chuan, Professor Hoang Chi Bao, AssociateProfessor, Doctor Nguyen Van Phuc In their thesis, they pointed out thereasons for the degradation of ethics and proposed methods and solutions forbuilding social ethics
In the book named ‘About educating revolution ethics in cadres, party members nowadays- Real situation and solutions’, National politics
publishing house, Hanoi, 2004, authors considered the term ‘lifestyle’ as anethic category; Vo Van Thang suggested some solutions in building ways oflife by raising awareness of students on the role of traditional culture in his
writing ‘Raising students’ awareness of the role of traditional culture in people’s lifestyle nowadays’, (Education Magazine, number 234, 2010)
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Firstly, all works on ethics, traditional ethic values and students’
lifestyle have been written in the form of science articles or scientificresearches, but no work has studied systematically under the view ofphilosophy about the nation’s tradition ethic value in connection withbuilding new lifestyle for Vietnamese learners in the context ofglobalization
Recent works have only settled a general picture on the lifestyle,students’ lifestyle; the expression has not brought out which are the mostfundamental and decisive factors, the specific characters of students’lifestyle They have not, moreover, considered the connection and impactbetween these factors and relative factors
There is a need for the following thesis to inherit, supplement andcomplete the concepts of lifestyle, new lifestyle, building new lifestyle forstudents; recognizing the role of traditional ethic value in building newlifestyle for students in the context of globalization
Secondly, not many published works on the real situation of students’
lifestyle are deep enough In most works, the writers mainly discussed theways of life of Vietnamese people No work has analyzed systematically andtotally the real situation of promoting traditional value in building new ways
of life for Vietnamese people in the context of globalization
Thirdly, although the published works suggest solutions to promote the
traditional ethic values in building new lifestyle for students and somesolutions are feasible, inheritable and also focus on the traditional value,there are no works on global data The data collected were not feasible anddid not recommend concrete orientation and major methods to promote thetraditional value on building new way of life for Vietnamese students in thecontext of globalization
The mentioned researches are related to the current thesis in some ways,with different approaches, different methods However, there are not anycomplete researches on traditional ethic value in building lifestyle forVietnamese students in such a globalization stage From the above reasons,this thesis namely: ‘The Nation’s traditional values with building new lifestyle for Vietnamese students in the context of globalization’ will focus
on the problem philosophically
Trang 12Chapter 2 LIFESTYLE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NATION’S TRADITIONAL VALUES IN BUILDING NEW LIFESTYLE FOR
VIETNAMESE STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF
‘way of life’, and in Germany ‘Lebensweise’ Although there are plenty ofresearchers, thesis mentioning this, up to now there has not been any fixdefinition on this
In ‘German Thinking System’, Marx-Engles wrote: We should not
study the mode of production by just considering it as a re-production of thebody of an individual It should be considered as ways of activity of eachindividual, an alive mode of living
From this, Marx showed us that producing is the decisive factor of theexistence of every person; mode of production is the basic activity and themode of living of the people; the basic side of lifestyle
Analyzing lifestyle based on the mode of activity and the total ofrelationships in economy, politics, culture and society of each person in asocioeconomic pattern, Rukevik stated that ‘Lifestyle is a complete system-
a system of characteristics which express activities of the different ethnicgroups, classes, social groups, and of every single person in a certain pattern
of a society.’
In Vietnamese, ‘lifestyle’ is a compound noun, including the word ‘life’and ‘style’ ‘Style’ is the manner, method, mode ‘Living’ is ‘activities’,biologically and socially past activities of the people The Vietnamese andChinese-Vietnamese dictionary also only mention the term ‘simple way oflife’ to exemplify for the word ‘way’ and extract ‘life style’ to mention theterm ‘living’
The term ‘lifestyle’ (ways of life) was used first in the IV national partycongress and continues being mentioned in the following party congress
Trang 13The VI party stated that : ‘The problem of detegration in politics and partymembers ; the problem of corruption, bureaucracy, dissipation and socialevils (which have not only been prevented, but also happened morecomplicatedly) reduces the people’s belief on Party and the country Thedegration of people’s ethics is not only occuring in some party members,officers, but also in different classes, especially in the young.
Absorbing the ideas of Marxism- Leninism on lifestyle, Professor
Vu Khieu defined the term ‘lifestyle’ in his work named ‘Vietnameseculture- Society and People’: Lifestyle is a social category, whichgeneralizes the activities of all minorities, classes, groups, individuals in acertain socioeconomic pattern and is presented in all fields of life: inworking and enjoying, in the relationships among people, in spiritualactivities and culture
It can be inferred from this definition the fundamental characteristics
of lifestyle, from the material of lifestyle such as material mode ofproduction and socioeconomic pattern to the spiritual activities of lifestyle.When considering the lifestyle in connection with people’s living andwith a socioeconomic pattern, Professor Thanh Le defined: ‘Lifestyle is abasic thinking system, which is about the activities of all minorities, classes,groups, and individuals relating to conditions of a certain socioeconomicpattern’ Doctor Nguyen Viet Chuc thought: ‘Lifestyle is the harmonizationand generalization of stably typical living patterns of the people, which work
in the conditions of certain socioeconomic pattern.’
To sum up, basing on different opinions of different researchers aboutlifestyle, we can conclude that:
- Lifestyle is the harmonization and generalization of the people’sactivities in connection with the conditions of certain socioeconomicpatterns
- Lifestyle is adjusted by mode of production and living conditions of asociety
- Lifestyle is the harmonization and generalization between materialand spirit relationships, between an individual and a society, a nation and thewhole world
- Lifestyle generally has cultural characteristics
Therefore, lifestyle is ways of living of people in a certain regime expressed in different fields of life, such as production, politic activities, spiritually cultural activities and daily activities.
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2.1.1.2 New ways of life – communist lifestyle, building new lifestyle
in Vietnam nowadays.
The appearance of socialist production relations resulted in thesocialist way of life The communist lifestyle satisfies the tasks of buildingsocialist; solves have-to-do assignments and evaluates the people’s typicalbehaviors
According to Professor Thanh Le: ‘The socialist way of life is one which is suitable for a typical socialist socioeconomic pattern with the socialist mode of production’
The socialist lifestyle is the combination between traditional valuesand new ideals and values in every action and behavior New ways of lifeare not only the pure expression of production mode or economy, but theyare also the reflection of spiritual life of the nation- in culture and behavior
of the people
Building new ways of life in Vietnam nowadays
The nature of building new lifestyle is the humanizing all social lives inconnection with the industrialization and modernization of the country.People in this society will enhance their self-control, self-consciousness,inner strength and perfect themselves It will be a nationally characteristic-modern-civilized lifestyle, which is connected with the period of building aVietnamese culture which is forward-looking and has national character
From the above requirements, we should notice the followings:
Firstly, the new way of life should have ethic standard, lofty and
beautiful ideals and should be the harmonious combination of goodtraditions of the country and the culture of the mankind
Secondly, building new lifestyle is actually targeting to develop perfect
people, who have rich personalities
Thirdly, new lifestyle should obey constitution and laws of the country.
2.1.2 The importance and the content of building new ways of life for Vietnamese students in the context of globalization
2.1.2.1 Students and the activity characteristics of Vietnamese students.
Vietnamese students are the ones who are studying at universities,colleges in Vietnam: They belong to a specific class They are studying andforming personalities, ethics and lifestyle Although they have fundamental