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Posted on 01/30/2011 3:20:20 PM PST by decimon
HANOI (AFP) – Tran Huy Hoang stares in shock at the images of four Vietnamese teenagers slapping and kicking a girl whose hands try to shield the blows.
"How could schoolgirls act so much like gangsters?" asks Hoang, the father of a 14-year-old girl, as he watches the video clip -- apparently filmed by another teenager -- posted on the YouTube website.
The girls pulled off their victim's T-shirt and bra, leaving her half-naked.
It was one of several clips showing violence among Vietnamese youth that have circulated on the Internet over the past year, sparking concern about the media's role and a breakdown of family-centred social values in the rapidly modernising society.
"The traditional values are vanishing while new values are not enough to replace them," said education expert Pham Toan, 80.
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"In the society now, people only pay attention to earning money and spending it rampantly," said Toan.
Now, even though traditional moral principles are taught at school, those virtues are not reinforced at home because parents are focused more on improving their lifestyle, and this leaves youngsters confused, he added.
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The main social organisations -- such as those for youth and women -- are linked to the state, with few independent non-governmental groups.
For 36-year-old mother Luu Thi Mai, proper parental care is the answer.
"I give her my best care, teaching her right from wrong, sending her to a good school with well-behaved students," the office worker said while waiting for her daughter outside a public school in Hanoi.
But just in case of trouble, Mai said she still sends her 11-year-old girl to karate classes -- "not to attack others, but to know how to defend herself".
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Civilization, however, is precious and fragile, and once lost cannot be easily reconstructed.
Welcome to the joys of top down, centrally planned, government control.
Smart parent until the teenagers elevate to using guns instead of just slapping people around. Quoting our dear leader, if they bring a knife to the fight, we will bring a gun. Vietnam is not the only place in the world where things are going to shit. (excuse my language)
Smart parent until the teenagers elevate to using guns instead of just slapping people around. Quoting our dear leader, if they bring a knife to the fight, we will bring a gun. Vietnam is not the only place in the world where things are going to shit. (excuse my language)
You could be excused the first time, but... ;-)
Ping.
This has to be Sarah Palin’s fault........
You forgot to mention “heated political vitriol on talk radio.”
LOL, yeah that, too!.......
This is disgusting!
Where do they think they are - in Detroit? Wendy’s in The Bronx?
Ping
Remove the Judeo-Christian world view, and the result is predictable.
But you cannot remove the true followers of Christ. In China, 1 in 10 are believers, and there are tens of thousands of house churches in Vietnam.
Collectivism can only ruin and kill so much.
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