HO CHI MINH NATIONAL ACADEMY OF POLITICS AND PUBLIC ADMISTRATION NGUYEN THI THANH HA THE VALUE OF TRADITIONAL MORALITY iN THE BUILDING OF NEW LIFESTYLE FOR VIETNAMESE STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION Major Student Code : Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism : 62 22 80 05 Summary of the philosophic thesis Hµ Néi - 2014 The research was accomplished at Ho Chi Minh National Academy 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 INTRODUCTION I Setting 1.1 The necessity of the research Every member of the society needs to know their past and each nation has to know its history One country will lose if it does not know its origin The traditional ethics is prominent among many valuable traditions of Vietnam It has been existing along with different stages of development of the country from building, keeping and developing It is the transference among different generations and different socioeconomic patterns Therefore, it is necessary to promote traditional values, especially ethnic value, in order to build new lifestyle for Vietnamese people in general and students in particular This is also an urgent requirement for the career of innovating and modernizing of the country The documents of the 10th meeting of the communist party confirm to: build and complete the value and dignity for the Vietnamese; preserve and promote the national character in the periods of industrializing, modernizing and globalizing; cultivate cultural value among the youth in general and students in particular, focusing on the life ideal, life styles, intelligence capacity, ethics and cultural stuff of Vietnamese people Students are a great force who is intellect, active and quick to learn the new things in all fields of life The value of traditional ethnics is a factor which creates the cultural character of the country In the development stages of the country, the ethnic value is also an interior and indispensible factor, which helps to push the movement and development of the culture There is no doubt that there is close relationship between traditional ethnic value and the building of new lifestyles However, the question is in the market economy and globalization, what are the roles of the traditional ethnic value? Is it a block or a motivation? Or is it an orientation factor for the building of new lifestyles? And what will be the content and requirement for the promotion of national traditional values for Vietnamese young learners? What are the methods and solutions to promote new lifestyles for students? Therefore, in order to build new way of life, we have been continuing to increase the awareness of the society in general and young learners in particular about the roles and the importance of traditional ethnic value This raises many problems: how students have right ways in modern society where many ethnic values have been changing; how students will have real emotion, right attitudes and solid belief to build their own way of life It is the traditional value which has an important role in creating particular lifestyle of the Vietnamese The degradation of ethnic value and lifestyle has been occurring complicatedly Its manifestation cannot be ignored anymore Egoistical and pragmatic way of life has become common, which is a serious problem for our society In the tenth Meeting of the Communist Party, we judged that: ‘The statement of degradation in people’s ethnics, lifestyle and the increase in social evils and crimes have become a worrying problem, 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 new lifestyle for students Hence, the study on the role of nation’s tradition value 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 the nation’s tradition value for building new lifestyle for students; propose methods and some major solutions in order to promote the nation’s tradition value in building new lifestyle for Vietnamese students in the context of globalization 1.2.2 The specific aims - Bring out the importance, real statements of the promotion of the nation’s tradition value for building new lifestyle for students in the context of globalization - Analyze, evaluate real statements of the promotion of the nation’s tradition value for building new lifestyle for students in the context of globalization and rising problems - Propose methods and some major solutions in order to promote the nation’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 This thesis just focuses on the value of the nation’s ethnic traditions and promotes its role on the building new ways of life for the young in the context of globalization 1.3.2 Scope of the research: The subjects of this research are college students Data is collected mainly in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city in the period from 1986 up to now Theoretical base and research methods - The theories of this research are mainly based on the viewpoints of Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh’s thought, political line of the Vietnam Communist Party on ethnics, nation’s traditional value, lifestyle of the young learners Besides, the thesis is also based on science achievements of research 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 fulfill the purpose of the research Significations of the study - The thesis plays an important role in regconizing the importance of the value of nation’s tradition in building new lifestyle for Vietnamese college students in the context of globalization - It provides the real situation of promoting traditional value on building new way of life for Vietnamese college students - It also proposes lines of actions and some solutions in order to promote the value of nation’s tradition in building new lifestyle for Vietnamese college students in the context of globalization Theoretical and practical significations of the study - The thesis plays an important role in regconizing the importance of the value of nation’s tradition in building new lifestyle for Vietnamese college students in the context of globalization - The thesis can be used as a reference for organizations, individuals who work with students and take part in activities with students - The thesis can be used as reference in later researches and to teach in colleges and institudes Outline of the research The research consists of the introductions, conclusion, lists of references, appendices, contents (which has chapters and 12 parts) Chapter OVERVIEW OF THE REFERENCES 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 of workers’ During 90s of the 19th century, in the renewal period, there witnessed great changes in economy, society…, which initially described the vivid picture of real lifestyle of the north, students and recommended educational methods for their new lifestyle An example of these is Do Long, who studied 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 of students’ lifestyle, which manifested through specific activities, behaviour and 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 the prominence 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 and necessity of building idea, ethnics, lifestyle and cultural life in Hanoi, the capital 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 social value are fundamental factors in every personal life Ethics plays the role as reasons for living; people’s behavior and social regulation form the culture and people in that society Author Ha Nhat Thang discussed ethics and 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 (2002); Nguyen Van Huyen discussed ‘Lifestyle of Vietnamese people in the context of globalization’ (2003) When analyzing national cultural character, Assoc.Professor-Dr Le Nhu Hoa 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’s activities and the socioeconomic development Another work is ‘Building ethic culture and cultural lifestyle in the context of economic market and integration’ (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 traditional moral value, which is taken into consideration when building cultural life and 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 on Marxism about the root of ethics; that ethics is a social form; ethics relates to tradition habit, custom, which reveals the relationship among people in their daily lives ‘Ethics’, volumns and by G.Bandzeladze, (Education publishing house, Hanoi, 1985) analyzed and explained the role of ethics, mada clear lots of social ethic phenomenon and the relationship between ethics and the humane In addition, problems of traditional value in general and traditional ethic value in particular are studied by many authors to confirm the role of traditional ethic value, the necessity of protecting, preserving and promoting these values in building new society Hereafter are many other works of different authors: ‘About cultural moral value of Vietnam’ (groups of authors, including 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 will challenge the new society Therefore, ethic problems should be analysed in the 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 Nguyen The Kiet, Associate Professor, Doctor Nguyen Tinh Gia, Professor Tran Phuc Thang, Associate Professor, Doctor Tran Hau Kiem, Associate Professor, 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 ethic standard in the market economy Thence, they recommend methods and solutions for new ethic value, build new ethic for managing officers in the socialist-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 Do 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 current market economy’ (2012) made clear the change of ethic standard under the impact of the market economy in Vietnam, so that it is necessary to have oriented solutions in order to build ethics and against the degradation of ethics, 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 high theoretical 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); Dang 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 Le Cao Thang Vo Van Thang wrote ‘Building lifestyle in Vietnam nowadays (from the view of cultural nation’s tradition)’ (Cultural Information Publishing house and Cultural Institute, Hanoi, 2006) In the context of globalization, Nguyen Thi Huyen (2007) mentioned the integration of ethics and lifestyle of Vietnamese people through her work named ‘Globalization and the risk of integration of ethics and lifestyle of Vietnamese people nowadays’ (Philosophy magazine) 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, Associate Professor, Doctor Nguyen Van Phuc In their thesis, they pointed out the reasons for the degradation of ethics and proposed methods and solutions for building 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 an ethic category; Vo Van Thang suggested some solutions in building ways of life 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) 12 Considering the term lifestyle, it is clear that lifestyle has a stick relationship with other concepts like reason for living, way of living and living standard, etc 2.1.1.2 New ways of life – communist lifestyle, building new lifestyle in Vietnam nowadays The appearance of socialist production relations resulted in the socialist way of life The communist lifestyle satisfies the tasks of building socialist; solves have-to-do assignments and evaluates the people’s typical behaviors 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 values and new ideals and values in every action and behavior New ways of life are not only the pure expression of production mode or economy, but they are 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 in connection 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 characteristicmodern-civilized lifestyle, which is connected with the period of building a Vietnamese 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 good traditions 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 and forming personalities, ethics and lifestyle Although they have fundamental 13 qualifications and thinking ability, they are still very young, aged from 18 to 25 and their life experiences are limited; they are under different pressures and they are easily agitated by the globalization Students in the society are the representatives of a special group In personal, students are maturing their physical strength and social knowledge; forming their personalities; absorbing qualifications and skills in a certain career This is the time when students develop their critical thinking, especially their world view, outlook in life, ambition and their job favorite Although students have fundamental scientific knowledge and thinking ability, they are young, lack of life experiences and are under lots of pressures and easily affected by the globalization Some students not cope up with changing environment Due to unstable psychology, some desire to new things and are affected by imitating lifestyle, pragmatic and changing lifestyle If students’ dreams are not correctly oriented, they will be affected by negative behaviors especially people who lack of life experiences and have unstable psychology like students Most students are hard-working They are improving their qualifications and promoting good traditional values of the former generations Students study different majors, and they will different jobs in the future which have high science levels They are dynamic, creative, clear-headed and quickly adopt new things A majority number of students have ideals, dreams and great ambitions They are ready to overcome difficulties, challenges to make their dreams come true 2.1.2.2 The importance of the value of traditional morality in building new life style for students in the context of globalization The term ‘lifestyle’ is necessarily understood belongs to the connotation of buildinways of life of Vietnamese people in general However, we should focus on the characteristics of the students because of their physiology and psychology as well as their living conditions Therefore, new way of life of the students is their specific activities, which are nationally characterized, modern and civilized These activities include their studying and their personal life, from their living ideal, value orientation to their behavior in daily life and in the relationship among people of the students Nowadays, in the context of globalization, building new ways of life for students have vital and strategic meanings for the following reasons: 14 Firstly, new lifestyles are not only target but also motivation for the development of the society, perfecting people in general and students in particular Secondly, new lifestyles play an important role in ‘preventing’ and ‘immunizing’ for the whole society, especially for students who may be badly influenced by the market economy, globalization and the ‘peace situation’ conspiracy of the rivals Thirdly, building new ways of life for students stems from requirements and assignments of the Vietnamese students in the current time 2.1.2.3 Basic contents of building new ways of life for students It is necessary to set the norms for building new ways of life for students nowadays: Firstly, teaching students to love the country, socialism and willingness to help the country overcome poverty and underdevelopment Students should have passion in studying, be honest in both studying and working Secondly, equipping students with the awareness of living for the community; responsibility, pure conscience and tolerance; equipping students life with ideals, dreams and ambitions Students should be energetic, confident and should believe in the revolutionary career of the nation Thirdly, building a civilized and well-behaved life for all people; people should follow the laws and should protect the environment, the right and good things Fourthly, building correct attitude in students’ friendship and love; building good habit and ethic and cultural behavior for them 2.2 THE NATION’S TRADITIONAL ETHICAL VALUES AND THEIR ROLES IN BUILDING NEW WAYS OF LIFE FOR VIETNAMESE STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION 2.2.1 Values and the nation’s traditional ethical values of the Vietnamese Value is the achievements people contribute in the development of the social history, and which is for the sake of profit and happiness of the community Value appears in the relationships between the subject and object, from the realities and strugglings Therefore, ‘when mentioning the term ‘value’, we want to confirm the positive side of it, i.e considering ‘value’ as the right, goodness, beauty; and as something encouraging people to act and try their best.’ 15 Ethic value is a basic factor which contributes to value system of social life Ethic value is standards, ideal models, chosen rules in order to adjust and evaluate behavior between people and people, people and the society Tradition, in term of specific trait, is somehow stable It is recognized by the community and deeply goes into people’s psychology and custom from one to another generation Promoting traditional ethic values is making the standardized value, the goodness, beauty which are defined in society The nation’s traditional ethic values The Vietnamese nation’s traditional ethic values are good characteristics which was formed, transferred, chosen and inherited from one to other generations This humanized value is recognized in the community, is relatively stable and expressed in popular standard, which is to adjust people’s behavior According to attitudes of scientists and the communist party, it can be said that the nation’s traditional ethic values includes: Patriotism is the love and royalty to the country, which can be seen in thirst and active actions to support the country Altruism and tolerance is the ethic value tradition of our country From the old days Vietnamese people, in working and fighting for their country, always live for nobility and help one another to overcome difficulties Community feeling and solidarity is spiritual factor which is originated from patriotism and is motivation for the development of the nation Thanks to solidarity we can create great strength to build and protect the country Industriousness, thrift and creation in working: thrift and creation is an ethic tradition stemming from the old days It is the noble quality of the Vietnamese people which is transferred, kept and developed by different generations Courageousness and undauntedness of the Vietnamese are prominent qualities in traditional ethic values Thanks to these qualities we are always successful in fighting against natural canamities and enemy-inflited destruction The tradition fondness for learning of Vietnamese people originated from the long-standing time and becomes a prominent beauty in the nation’s tradition Years ago the Vietnamese acknowledged that learning was not only the right but also the duty for every person 16 Thirst and love for peace Due to being attacked by many invaders, Vietnamese always thirst for peace They desire a peaceful and happy life for all people, and the stability and development for all countries in the world Thirst and love for peace becomes the nation’s tradition value, and also rule and moral principles for all Vietnamese people 2.2.2 Roles of the nation’s traditional ethic values in building new ways of life for students in the context of globalization The traditional ethic values play a vital role in building new ways of life (a communist lifestyle) for Vietnamese people in general and for Vietnamese learners in particular Firstly, the traditional ethic values play a basic role in building new ways of life for Vietnamese students nowadays Secondly, the traditional ethic values are inherited and upheld to become new characteristic for positive lifestyle for students Thirdly, the traditional ethic values are motivation as well as reasons for developing country, which create the spiritual strength and stuff for the young- therefore, they are able to overcome difficulties in the context of globalization Fourthly, building traditional ethic values contributes to the balance between material and spiritual life, helping the students overcome bad effects of the market economy and globalization Therefore, for students, the future intellectual force, building new ways of life is oriented and vanguard In the context of globalization, building new ways of life for students is very important and has strategic meaning Chapter THE NATION’S TRADITIONAL ETHIC VALUES AND BUILDING NEW WAYS OF LIFE FOR VIETNAMESE STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION - REAL SITUATION AND PROBLEMS 3.1 GLOBALIZATION AND ITS EFFECTS TO UPHOLDING TRADITIONAL ETHIC VALUES IN BUILDING NEW WAYS OF LIFE FOR STUDENTS 3.1.1 The nature of globalization In the eye of philosophy, globalization is the indispensible movement of the mankind; it happens during the development and is reaching its high 17 level Thanks to material production, the human beings can exist and develop Therefore, globalization stemmed from the powerful development of productive forces and socialized production 3.1.2 The impacts of globalization on upholding traditional ethic values in building new ways of life for students 3.1.2.1 The positive impacts of globalization Firstly, by allowing free trade we attract investors, widen exporting market and stimulate the market economy Secondly, globalization creates good conditions for building new and modern lifestyle, which both inherits the nation’s tradition ethic values and acquire the human’s culture Thirdly, globalization creates favorable conditions for exchanging culture, science; acquiring information and human’s culture in order to enrich the nation’s culture, which is the base of building new ways of life for students 3.1.2.2 Bad effects of globalization Firstly, globalization is the reason for the dependence in economy and culture, which can lead to the dependence in politics This threatens the safety of the country; creates the crisis of people’s confidence in human civilization value; encourages people to follow pragmatic lifestyle and remote from the traditional values Secondly, globalization invents challenges, even threats to break the Vietnamese traditional ethic values and sinks the culture into oblivion Thirdly, globalization makes people face with lots of challenges and the country becomes less safe Fourthly, globalization creates inequality between developing countries and developed countries, far gap between the rich and the poor and finally results in two different lifestyles 3.2 THE REAL SITUATION OF UPHOLDING THE NATION’S TRADITIONAL ETHIC VALUES IN BUILDING NEW WAYS OF LIFE FOR VIETNAMESE STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION 3.2.1 The real situation of upholding the value of ‘patriotism’, the nation’s ‘self-strengthening’ to build new ways of life for students in the context of globalization Promoting the traditional ethic values in building new lifestyle is an important subject matter When the war ended, our communist party took care of all fields of life for the community, including building new culture, ethics and lifestyle for the young and students are important subjects 18 When mentioning ‘patriotism’ of Vietnam, president Ho Chi Minh stressed: ‘Our citizens have great love for the country It is the noble tradition of the Vietnamese Since the old days, every time we were invaded, this tradition has become a powerful wave which can sweep all the enemies’ In the work named ‘Developing culture and the people in the period of industrialization and modernization’ (the country-level scientific worknumber 4), which investigated 1, 585 students in 13 universities in Hanoi, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh city on patriotism, and pride of the nation’s tradition showed that: From 89.7% to 94.9% students think that ‘Patriotism and pride of the country are important ethic value’; from 75% to 85% students are desired to contribute to the building of the country In the current conditions, the students’ noble lifestyle should connect closely with the period of industrialization and modernization, contributing to the socialism and should have ideal as well as belief in building Vietnam- a country of ‘rich citizens, strength, equality and civilization’ Hence, it is important to uphold the patriotism, self-strength in cultivating ideal and belief in building for students This encourages students to study to support the country, the citizens and building a citizen-owned Vietnam- a country for peace, freedom and richness as in Uncle Ho’s wishes 3.2.2 Promoting ‘a sense of community, solidarity spirit’ in order to build new ways of life for students in the context of globalization A sense of community, solidarity spirit are noble traditional ethic values Solidarity is the nation’s power in building and protecting the country as well as expressing the self-strength of the country It can be said that the sense of community and solidarity spirit have become the inner strength and are one of noble traditional ethic values of the Vietnamese, contributing to the career of national liberation, building and protecting the country Uncle Ho concluded: ‘Solidarity, solidarity and great solidarity Success, success and great success’ Upholding the traditional ethic values has recently directed in building collective spirit and solidarity It also connects personal interest and the community’s interest ; fights against practical and lowly lifestyle By both educating and giving good samples, we can educate the collective spirit in working and studying for students A majority number of Vietnamese students study hard and follow Uncle Ho’s advices; they try their best to have ‘Students with good things’ title 19 They contribute their brainpower and health for the target of a country of rich citizens, power, equality and civilization In schools, however, there are a number of students who lack a sense of responsibility They live without ideals, belief and they not care the real situation of the country Therefore, they are trapped in ‘ego’ The above results reveal that besides positive views, there are negative which need to be aware and made better, such as the lost in belief in socialism; not striving for becoming a socialist party member, not caring about the political affairs 3.2.3 Real situation of promoting the value of ‘compassion and tolerance’ in building new ways of life for students Compassion is a noble tradition of the nation For years it has been inherited, promoted and raised to a higher position in building people’s lifestyle Youth and students have contributed to a lot of meaningful movements, expressing love, sharing and tolerance between people and among communities The Vietnamese Youth Union, which is continuously innovative, has carried out many activities like ‘Volunteering for the community’; ‘The youth follow Uncle Ho’s advice : live beautifully, live helpfully’ ; ‘Actions for the peace of the country’ ; ‘Actions for younger generations’ ; strenghthen voluntary groups ; promote ‘Humane blood’ activities ; cooperate and effectively act the activity ‘Gratitude is the sign of noble souls’ … However, these values have been declined and deformed in stylestyle of many people, including students The instances are selfishness, pragmatism and ego etc Many people have a high opinion of materials and disregard the spiritual value This creates ‘live fast’ attitude in some people This expresses in many different fields of life, especially in choosing jobs and in studying of the students 3.2.4 Real situation of promoting ‘Industriousness, creativity in working’ and ‘optimistic spirit’ in building new ways of life for students The values of industriousness and creativity have been inherited and promoted positively This is illustrated in personal lifestyle in the community With the tradition of industriousness and creativity, the Vietnamese young generation, including the students have inherited and made it become an important base to form necessary personalities of new age workers A study result (table 3.7) showed that, the necessary qualities for workers whichs the youth and students put in top priority was ‘accomplishment’ and the second top priority was ‘professional ethics’ When being asked what the fundamental personalities that Vietnamese 20 young people need to have, ‘creative spirit’ (77.27%) and ‘industriousness’ (47.11%) are their most choices Due to negative impacts of globalization, a number of students are lazy in studying as well as working They live in a snobbish way; lack of ambition and live aloof of the nation’s tradition Fast development of open economy; integration and globalization lead to many bad effects, which is depicted clearly in ways of life of students nowadays 3.2.5 Real situation of promoting ‘the traditional fondness for learning’ in building new ways of life for students The traditional fondness for learning is promoted in studying and researching of the students Many students study hard and overcome difficulties to have drastic changes Building new ways of life should associate with teaching students the nation’s traditional values in order to enhance their studying and their skills in different fields of life The youth unions in universities have promoted the roles of young lecturers to become key elements in training and helping students in science researching Study movements such as intelligent competitions : ‘Discovering sciencetific knowledge’, ‘Non-professional computer engineers’, ‘Young creators’… also have effective impacts on studying and working Many intellectual competitions attract a big number of participants such as ‘The young future scientists’ : after only months, there are 21,000 young people who joined with 25,000 ideas, in which the city youth account for a great number Students study to upgrade qualifications It is the most fundamental activity, which makes specific characteristics in students’ lifestyle The result shown in table 3.5 reveals that the motivation for choosing job is ‘suitable with your ability’ (8.52%), the second choice is ‘suitable with your interest’ (7.6%), and the next is ‘because it is an important job in the current society’ (6.74%) Jobs which have high salary and are easy to offer are the next priority standard for most students However, there are many students who spend much time not for studying but for meaningless entertainments Many of them lose themselves This is called a ‘disturbance’ lifestyle A study of Nguyen Canh Khanh from Hanoi University of Education showed ‘shadows’ in studying style of students According to this study, 50% of students found no motivation in studying; 36.1% is passive in studying- They rarely ask questions and reveal their ideas in in-class discussions; 22.9% preferred listening to teacher to 21 asking teacher questions; more than 50% of them did not believe in their own ability; 40% thought they did not have self study ability and nearly 70% said they did not have researching ability Lazy thinking is a serious disease of many students In class, teachers speak most of the time and most questions put by teachers received no answers This is a common situation in most classes 3.2.6 Forms and methods used to promote the nation traditional ethic values in building new ways of life for students in the context of globalization Under the impacts of the economic market and globalization, Vietnamese traditional ethic values have certain movements The promoting situation of these values in building new ways of life for students has both positive and negative impacts ; both strengths to upgrade and weaknesses to overcome Therefore, we need to learn forms and methods to adjust people’s behaviour in order to promote the nation’s traditional ethic values in building new lifestyle for students The thesis focuses on analyzing forms and methods to promote the nation’s traditional ethic values to build new ways of life for students They are also practical activities for students Firstly, actively connect organizations, social political unions in promoting the nation’s traditional ethic values for building students’ new ways of life Secondly, upgrading the nation’s traditional ethic values in building students’ new ways of life through a variety of activities in schools Thirdly, promoting the nation’s tradition to build new ways of life for students through mass media and arts in the context of globalization Besides the above methods, there are many other ways such as setting examples, self educating…They have certain roles in promoting the nation’s tradition to build new ways of life for students 3.3 SOME PROBLEMS IN PROMOTING THE NATION’S TRADITIONAL VALUES IN BUILDING NEW WAYS OF LIFE FOR VIETNAMESE STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION Philosopher Heghen said that contradiction is the inner impulse of life This is totally true in promoting the nation’s tradition to build new ways of life for students in the context of globalization These contraditions are summarized as followed : 22 3.3.1 The contradition between upgrading the nation’s traditional values and a lifestyle which is away from the traditional ethic values This is caused by the effects and impacts of globalization on many students 3.3.2 The contradition between upgrading the nation’s traditional ethic values in building students’s lifestyle and a complicated society where the ethics and lifestyle are badly affected by many factors 3.3.3 The contradiction between educating the nation’s traditional values in building new ways of life for students and the limit ability of educators 3.3.4 The contradiction between tradition and modern in educating the traditional ethic values in building new ways of life for students Therefore, in the context of globalization many noble traditional ethic values have been being promoted to build students’ new lifestyle through variety of methods such as mobilizing different campaigns in companies and social political organizations Chapter ORIENTATION AND SOME MAJOR SOLUTIONS TO PROMOTE THE NATION’S TRADITIONAL ETHIC VALUES IN BUILDING NEW WAYS OF LIFE FOR VIETNAMESE STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION 4.1 ORIENTATION TO PROMOTE THE NATION’S TRADITIONAL ETHIC VALUES IN BUILDING NEW WAYS OF LIFE FOR VIETNAMESE STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION 4.1.1 Combining tradition with modern ; inheriting and innovating the nation’s traditional ethic values to build new ways of life in the context of globalization 4.1.2 Promoting the traditional ethic values in building new ways of life as well as building modern and perfect students 4.1.3 Promoting the traditional ethic values in building new ways of life for students in connection with setting positive educative atmospheres in the context of globalization 4.2 SOME MAIN SOLUTIONS TO PROMOTE THE NATION’S TRADITIONAL ETHIC VALUES IN BUILDING NEW WAYS OF LIFE FOR VIETNAMESE STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION 4.2.1 Strengthening the roles of social political organizations in schools in order to promote the nation’s traditional ethnic values in the context of globalization 23 4.2.2 Innovating educational contents and methods in educating the traditional ethic values in building new ways of life for students in the context of globalization 4.2.3 Strengthening the roles of law in the traditional ethic values in building new ways of life for students 4.2.4 Combining both educating the nation’s traditional ethnic values and the culture of mankind in building new ways of life for students 4.2.5 Enhancing self-awareness, training and studying the traditional ethic values in building new ways of life for students in the context of globalization Therefore, in order to promote the nation’s traditional ethic values in building new ways of life for students in the context of globalization, we need to have suitalbe directions and globally practise the above solutions Building revolutional ethics and socialism lifestyle for students in the stage of industrialization and modernization contributes to educating new age students who are both red and expert They will become new masters of the country, deserved to the wishes of Uncle Ho CONCLUSION Promoting the nation’s traditional ethic values in building students’ new lifestyles is an objective matter Educating politics and ethic virture to ensure the mature and wholesome lifestyles and ensure the quality of edudation and training in schools The new lifestyle that is built is socialist Promoting the traditional ethic values helps students have correct thought about the values of social ethics and form their emotion ; belief ; ethic ideals and beautiful and noble ways of life Students are well-educated to become new masters of the country For the last years, besides upgrading the training quality and students’ working skills, the educators have paid attention to teaching ethics and building their new ways of life for students The party committee and board of managers at schools combine training and educating ethics and create favorable conditions for global development of students However, besides achievements, there are some limitations to be solved In order to enhance effectiveness of promoting the traditional values to build new ways of life for students in the context of globalization, we 24 recommend some solutions as followed : Firstly : combining the tradition and modern; inheriting and innovating the tradition; Secondly: building new students who are modern and global; Thirdly, creating good learning atmosphere in the context of globalization To practise the above solutions, we need to: Firsly, enhance the roles of social political unions at schools so as to upgrade the nation’s traditional ethic values for students in the context of globalization ; Secondly, reform the contents and methods in educating the nation’s traditional ethic values for students in the context of globalization; Thirdly, strengthen the roles of law in promoting the nation’s traditional ethic values for students in the context of globalization; Fourthly, combine the nation’s traditional ethic values with the ethic values of the mankind in building new ways of life for students in the context of globalization ; Fifly, enhanceself-awareness, training and studying the traditional ethic value in building new ways of life for students in the context of globalization These directions and solutions need practising at the same time Each solution has its roles in building students’ new lifestyle and has mutual impact and supporting relationship If we use these solutions, we can have positive impacts on promoting the traditional ethic values in building new ways of life in the context of globalization LISTS OF RELEVANT SCIENTIFIC THESIS OF THE WRITER A Posted in different magazines: Nguyễn Thị Thanh Hà (2010),‘Inherit and promote the traditional values in educating ethics for students’, Politic Argument and Communication Magazine (Number 7), pages.42 - 46 Nguyễn Thị Thanh Hà (2010), Inherit and promote the traditional values in educating students nowadays’, Science and Technology Magazin, (Number 8), pages.55- 59 Nguyễn Thị Thanh Hà (2013), ‘Building new lifestyle for Vietnamese students nowadays’, Politic Argument and Communication Magazine, (Number 12), pages.48 - 52 B Scientific work: Nguyễn Thị Thanh Hà (Member), (2013), Educating new ethics for students in the economic market in Vietnam nowadays, The National Political Publishing house – The Truth, Ha Noi Nguyễn Thị Thanh Hà (2013), Definition of lifestyle in Marx-Lenin Philosophy, Summary record at the conference: The value of MarxLenin Theory and Ho Chi Minh ideals and the practical teaching at Thai Nguyen University, May/2013, pages 24-30 Nguyễn Thị Thanh Hà (Member), (2014), The national traditional cultural values in building characteristics for Vietnamese students nowadays, The National Political Publishing house – The Truth, Ha Noi ... tradition value 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... 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.’... integration of ethics and lifestyle of Vietnamese people through her work named ‘Globalization and the risk of integration of ethics and lifestyle of Vietnamese people nowadays’ (Philosophy magazine)