Week 7 - William Chan - Viet Nam

 Viet Nam has created transnational ties and connections through the use of technological improvement and the migration of the Vietnamese diaspora. So, this makes it so Viet Nam has a wide spread of connections rooted in the people. The main topics that were covered in the article, Issues in Transnational High Education Regulation in Vietnam, by George Nguyen and Anna Shillabeer, spoke on the national ties of education Viet Nam. Education was very significant in the mobility and outreach Viet Nam could have. The outreach concerned, as written about in the article, were about 'people mobility, program mobility, and institution mobility' and each of these 'mobile' outreaches tie in with how Viet Nam would be able to have connections and ties outside of Viet Nam on a international level. This ties in a lot with your article, Transnational Vietnam because you wrote a lot about how Viet Nam has many different influences and ties with outside countries and how that helped rebuilt Viet Nam. What's very interesting is how Viet Nam is being built back together through the migration of it's people because this caused a lot of remittances to be sent back, a lot of culture and different perspectives to be intersectional with traditional culture, and breakthroughs in old school traditions. This was a very unique way Viet Nam was to get out of it's very poor levels and a way to start to come back up from not being extremely deprived to bouncing back to having some sort of structure and power.

Question: Will the old traditions ever be overrided by the new ideas and perspectives?

Works cited:

Kieu­Linh Caroline Valverde. “Introduction: Transnationalizing Viet Nam.”

George Nguyen and Anna Shillabeer. “Issues in Transnational Higher Education Regulation in  Vietnam.”

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