Public display of affection

First, we want to thank our teacher, Miss Thu Mai, who has always enthusiastically helped us, who is always ready to give us guidance and answers to our questions.

National Economics University Faculty of National Education

Public display of

affection

Group: Lavender

Cao Thu Hiền

Trần Ngọc Khánh

Vương Thu Trâm

Nguyễn Minh Quân

First, we want to thank our teacher, Miss Thu Mai, who has always enthusiastically helped

us, who is always ready to give us guidance and answers to our questions Besides, without the help from the students and parents, who provided us the information, we wouldn't be able

to collect these exact statistics and finish this report Although our survey was carried out in a small area and the result we got might not be completely exact, we believe that this is the first step of later bigger and more professional surveys

Chapter I: Background

- Rationale

- Purpose

- Methodology

- Objections

Chapter II: General Argument

Chapter III: Real situation

Chapter IV: Attitude

Chapter V: Reasons and consequences

Chapter VI: Solutions

Chapter VII: Conclusion

Chapter I: Background Rationale:

In Viet Nam nowadays, with the development of many aspect of life society, many things has been changed forever For example the technology, the cultural traditional, the attitude of people… With the imported habits of the West and American culture, the youth people in Viet Nam now are very active, creative and stylish On the other hand, many habits which not suitable for the Vietnamese youth has been imported, too One of the most

concerned issues is the public displays of affection A boy with a girl in a public place and they are show their intensive sense, like hugging or even kissing each other Is this a good scene or bad scene if their parents or their friends see that, or what about you if you see that scene? We want to find the opinions of all students and adults to find it, is this suitable for the Vietnamese young people or it is offensive and annoying the others

Purpose:

According to the rationale which we mentioned above, PDA is a hot problem in society now although it has just appeared in Vietnam recently Surely, most people have ever witnessed or thought about this problem Noticeably, the matter often appears on web-site very popularly and is taken interest by many people, especially young people When we decided to choose this matter, we thought carefully and defined our main purposes First of all, we brought out the questionnaire and learned on Internet to know the real situation of PDA Thence, we hope we may paint the most real picture as much as we can to show for IBD students Besides, an integral purpose of us is about the attitude of people, especially young people and parents In our point of view, their opinion is just the best answer for "is PDA right or wrong?" question Finally, it is necessary for us to find out direct and indirect causes which lead to the population of PDA in society now From that causes, we hope we will find out the best effective solutions to solve or at least, reduce this situation

Methodology

To have a facilitate reseach, we have set some spcecific methods Firstly, our group has decided to design questionnaire for studentds We will go to the university to deliver the questionnaires in one class at the beginning of a period Then we will collect them during breaktime Secondly, we will interview face to face with some adults to see clearly their statements about this subject Moreover, we will search for information on the Internet, in magazines, newspapers to make our research more various

Objections:

Our group decided to choose the students in some university and the students in some high schools in Hanoi

In addition, some adults in Hanoi

Chapter II: General Argument

PDA always seems to be a fresh problem in Vietnam in particular and Asia in general Therefore, up to now, there are hardly ever any researches about PDA in Vietnam In contrast

to this, PDA is quite popular in abroad and become a feature of foreign lifestyle In recent years, a substantial amount of research has been carried out in foreign countries Typical of

them is a research of Journal of Young Investigators on 10 October 2008 (www.jyi.org).

Using two measures of self-report, they determined the prevalence of various displays of affection in public places on the campus of the University of the South (Sewanee) A questionnaire was administered to 260 Sewanee students living in dorms on campus As a result, with 34.1% of questionnaire participants reporting are having engaged in prolonged kissing in public in the semester during which the study was conducted 57.9% of interview participants reported having engaged in prolonged kissing in public at some point during their time at Sewanee Their results show that PDAs are common on the Sewanee campus A lot of other research also showed results like this

Question 7: Have you ever engaged in prolonged kissing (making out) in a public place at Sewanee this semester.

Question 8: Have you ever engaged in more intimate acts than just prolonged kissing in a public place at Sewanee this semester

Chapter III: Real situation

When the society is developing day by day, the life and consciousness about many things of people is changing continuously The attitude about love is also one of them In the past, for the predecessors to express her love with his favorite is a failure to be natural and comfortable They just said quietly express their feelings through smiles and timid eyes Even when they love each other, they also felt difficult in showing their love The cause of this is the customary practice of orthodoxy which controlled of people in a certain standard And then social is developing, the unsound customs also metabolize to make life more comfortable, more enjoyable Today the display of couples' love have been accepted and it is not stranger with people any more, especially youth But any things also have advantages and disadvantages The disadvantages will be more and more serious if people go too limited to allow One of our purposes is learning about the real situation, especially the main disadvantages of this problem (PDA) Using questionnaire on 100 objects (students at high school and university), we aimed to determine the percentage of various displays of affection

in public places though youth's look

We have put a lot of questions and one of them is "Have you ever seen PDA?” As can be seen the result from the pie chart below, the difference among responds was quite significant Noticeably, the "often" response accounted for the highest proportion at 55% The number of people who usually see PDA every day also took up a remarkable rate, about 13% The "sometime" respond ranked second with 25%, approximate a half of the proportion

of "often" respond… In general, most objects shared that they have ever witnessed PDA and the finger of people who have never witnessed only made up 7%, a too low number in comparison with other responds We carried out a small interview with some students to exploit the level of PDA which they often see In most cases, the gesture like holding, hug, especially kissing is witnessed the most in the deserted places (park, thicket ) and also the crowed places (library, cinema, even schools and universities ) Some people related that they had ever seen the unbelievable action of couples like cuddle, making love and more

7%

24%

56%

13%

The percentage of people have seen

the PDA

Never

Rarely ( 2-3 times/ month ) Often ( 5 -10 times/ month )

Two pie charts below describes among of people who have ever had a lover and the frequent of PDA According to the first chart, the people who have ever had a lover accounted for a very high proportion, 62% Whereas of that, other people only had 38% Continuing to exploit with the second chart, we have found that in 62% of people who have ever a lover, there was 90% of people have showed their love in public Especially, the

"sometime" respond ranked first with 60% and the "never" respond was lowest at 10%

62%

38%

The number of people

who have lover

10%

60%

30%

0%

Never Sometimes Usually

According to the results we have assembled, it can be concluded that PDA is more and more popular and seem to be becoming routine in the majority of the youth In fact, this problem is not also cared by adults who are able to control it Because of not having the control, PDA is developing in several directions both positive and negative

Chapter IV: Attitude

PDA seems not to be rare in the adolescent’s union in Vietnam They don’t care criticism, they show their love but that doesn’t mean everybody totally agree with them, even themselves Let’s try surf websites, especially the youth’s forums; we can easy see the waves

of verdict don’t agree with PDA Recently, citizen discuss about “hot” photographs of a couple in Thu Le zoo were up on blog The story about excessive photographs in public became “hot” topic The youth want to express their feelings in public, although adults are more complaisant, they can’t accept PDA If someone go through grass-land, park…, we will meet generations of 8x, 9x are “talking” with many way to express feelings

As we can see the chart shows the proportion of actions which can't totally be accepted in the public It can be seen from the chart that terrible actions such as: make love , touch , ….ranks first with 65% Likewise, kissing in the public is one of the actions criticized and less 16% more than the action which has the highest percentage Moreover, the action has the third highest percentage is hugging, accounts for 25% Finally, holding hand seems not to be protested seriously so it accounts for the lowest percentage, just only 12%

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25

49

65

0 20 40 60 80 Holding hand

Hugging Kissing More

It can be seen from the chart that it is divided into 5 main group actions when you witness PDA In fact, running away immediately and not concerned anymore have the highest percentage: 59%, 25% respectively On the other hand, other action has the lowest percentage, account for 2% There are 6% of people seeing it for fun and the percentage of people who will recommend is 8%

5%

25%

60%

8% 2% Actions of the witness

Watch for fun Don't care

Go away immediately Offer

Other

As we can see the chart shows the adult's attitude to these unconscious actions The percentage of people who think that it is a unconscious action, should be recommended has the highest percentage (39%) whereas people considering it is normal as well as nothing should be prohibited has the lowest percentage (6%)…Moreover, the percentage of people felling a little uncomfortable is 21% Another attitude is not concerned anymore which accounts for 10%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Other

Extremely annoying and need to offer

A little bit annoying

24

39

However, today our society has easy view about PDA Hugging, kissing was discussed many times and PDA can be accepted, if they are not so excessive In Joe

Stephen-an English tourist opinion: “After 5 years, I returned to your country, I cStephen-an see a huge chStephen-ange, especially the youth more beautiful and freer than before PDA is not bad but they need to respect other people Don’t make PDA become ridiculous Because kiss is a beautiful and sweet action, make our love more holy

Chapter V: Reasons and consequences

Reasons:

In fact, there are many reasons lead to public displays of affection (PDA) We can divide it into 2 main groups: objective reasons and subjective reasons Firstly, the influence

of propaganda such as magazine, movie… is one of the objective reasons According to the statistic people who think that propaganda is the reason for PDA is 58% As you know, nowadays, propaganda more and more develop, it leads to magazine and movies which have contents as well as image are very provoking is more and more popular Moreover, magazines, movies are the best choice for children and adults to entertain With this, many people are very curious and want to imitate the actor in this movie then it gradually turns into their bad habit which plays a part in their life What’s more, 31% of people who believe that PDA is due to influential oh foreigners’ living It hard to deny that Vietnamese’s custom is very different from foreigners’ one, they can hug even kiss to express their love, besides, they don’t think seriously about PDA In fact, we trend to adept foreign culture and many students study abroad so foreign culture is really impact on them They say that it can be criticized because foreigner can do it, so they also can do However, it is very unacceptable when many people express their love excessively instead of kissing or hugging

About subjective reasons, they can’t control their feelings as well as their actions and

it is subjective reason which has the highest percentage: 21% At that time, both their feeling and their actions are out of control so they can’t aware of where or when they should or shouldn’t do this They hug; they kiss even if many actions are quite superficial in public to satisfy their passion And the reason is want to affirm themselves with their friend through PDA

They consider that other people will very admire their action their love In addition, love means that they must do it and only do it they can express their love all-sided

Consequences:

Publish displays of affection cause many consequences which is excessive our imagines In fact, it only has negative effects on people around them but it also has bad impact on them

Firstly, 55% of people supposed that PDA is dramatically influential on psychology

as well as awareness of children As you know, children who are too small and don have enough ability to distinguish what things should do or shouldn’t Moreover, at this age they are really curious about news things around them and they always try to do these What is more, after doing it even if seeing it, they can be haunted what leads to their study is decadent seriously? As a result of this, PDA is the main factor in causing unbalance of children's psychology

Another consequence is mentioned here is PDA which makes the bad view at public when they kiss, hug even do something terribly so all of this will have bad impact on beauty

of city Besides, visitors can undervalue our country because of these unconscious actions Finally, PDA will be both extremely despised and criticized As I told above, their actions bring a lot of bad influence on other people so everybody will protest as well as give them frigid looking It is true that they are supposed to be very unconscious and educated According to questionnaire, there are 30% of people who believe that PDA bring disadvantage to people who do this