The Influence of Today’s Media in Vietnam By Wolfza At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

Before I came to Vietnam, I’ve heard people say “Vietnamese are tricky and selfish. “However, when I had a chance to get to know them, my perception was changed dramatically. They love peace and have friendly smiles. I still remember when I saw merchants sitting in the fresh market, people walking by on the street and even waiters and waitresses who have impressive smiles. With those smiles, they magically attracted me right away.

When speaking of Vietnam, vision of land in shape of an most likely appears in our mind. One boundary is a shoreline 3,730 km long. The capital city is located in the North and named Hanoi. 90% of the citizens are Buddhists and there is only communist party to rule the country.

What attract people to come visit Vietnam is the simple life of people and the beautiful geography of the northern region. This is where Fansipan Mountain rises to it’s peak. Fansipan is 3,143 meters high and it is the highest mountain of Indo-Chaina. In addition to that, in central Vietnam, Weh, Hoi-un and Danang are ancient cities which has been declared as world heritage sites. However, there is still plenty of attractions waiting for visitors to discover them for themselves.

Since Vietnam has been an open country for the last several years, Vietnam has adopted some new cultures and new technologies along with developing human resources. It is stated that Vietnam will be among one of the most developed countries in Asia within 14 years. The reason for this is they encourage people to be patriotic via media such as television, newspaper or local music.

Their television media has built the “love of national spirit” through war movies between Vietnam and other countries in the past. Most stories are about loss, and sadness which are the effects of war. All these things have taught the next generation not to be misguided by personal objects. Today the media mostly presents only the Brightside of the Vietnamese community and you can hardly find criminal news.

In the children’s programs, they insert the ideas for children to listen to their parents and study hard. We can see that Vietnam has taken the media as a very important tool. There are some TV programs which indoctrinate people to love their country and never separate themselves from the country because Vietnam has people from many different races.

These programs present the different ways of life of people in the nation which are different so they can understand each other and decrease the bigotry of the people. The purpose is to make everyone believe that they all are Vietnamese and they all live in the same land which is Vietnam. Vietnam’s government also has the law to control the media; its is prohibited to present the information which opposes to the culture or lacks from fact. Also, it is not allowed to report any news of the government which shows the negative side of the country. Anyone violating this law will be fined for 70 million Dong.

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