tailieunhanh - Some characteristics of traditional Vietnamese families in history
The paper introduces some typical characteristics of Vietnamese family values before its cultural, civilized exchanges, integration with the West. Vietnamese family’s fundamental characteristics are categorized into three groups in relation to natural environment, between man to man and inside each person mind. | Some Characteristics of Traditional Vietnamese Families in History Some Characteristics of Traditional Vietnamese Families in History Mai Van Hai * Abstract: The paper introduces some typical characteristics of Vietnamese family values before its cultural, civilized exchanges, integration with the West. Vietnamese family’s fundamental characteristics are categorized into three groups in relation to natural environment, between man to man and inside each person mind. The author argues that those family values are permanent and hardly changed due to fundamental socio-economic factors such as a self-provided small farm production, Vietnamese village stratification, the effects of Confucius ethics, and from cultural perspective that the Vietnamese strong wish to own land. The paper shows that Vietnamese family values are a very potential area with diversified features that needs to gain more research in the coming time. Key words: Family, family value, Vietnamese system, value in history. Researchers should always pay attention to history of the issues when they start their research, and Vietnamese system of family value is no exception. The question is that how it was formed and revealed as well as its fundamental characteristics? And, what are the social and natural factors that affect its operation? The answer is obviously out of reach of any individual or any single article, because family value system is various and diversified: it is distinguished not only in each ethnic people, religion but also in each group’s social stratification. Furthermore, in specific time of history, that system may contain abundantly different sense and layouts. It is therefore a challenge to present this system in a single paper. Regarding this issue, historian Đào Duy Anh (1938) considers cultural phenomena are in fact self-evolving, they are more similar than different. However, he just describes similarities rather than difference. In this article, the author mentions .
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