Week 10 Blog - Winnie Chen

Bringing in Vietnam’s people and culture into the rethinking of what Vietnam means, we now look into where Vietnam future is headed. With that we need to think about Vietnam’s vision and how the development process with allow Vietnam to mobilize upwards. Vietnam’s ultimate vision is to have its national aesthetic to rebrand Vietnam’s image, whether it is through sustainable coffee production or low carbon development programs. Given these developmental projects that Vietnam has implemented, Vietnam wants to be redeveloped and reinvented into a sustainable nation, because the challenges and the destruction of Agent Orange sprayed during the Vietnam War has put a silence on the nation for too long of a time; now, it is time to stand up and face those challenges to protect the nation, the people, the economy, and most importantly, the land. What better way is there than to reverse the challenges by recreating itself as a sustainable nation. Sustainability can be defined in various ways. Through coffee production, Vietnam can sustain itself by exporting its coffee for revenue for the economy, which is an effective method because it was unbeknownst to me that coffee production is the second largest in Vietnam after rice production. As Vietnam has been colonized by multiple powers – China, France, the United States – throughout their entire history, Vietnam has always resisted and taken back control of the nation. This speaks a whole lot about how well Vietnam can sustain itself without any help from any other nations because other nations have failed to provide any effective help to Vietnam. Giving Vietnam a sustainable image is a good step to take in rebranding its national aesthetic. By incorporating the people, the government, and the economy into this development process, Vietnam can easily achieve maximum national aesthetics.

Question: Other than coffee production and low carbon development programs, what are other methods that Vietnam has approached in rebranding the nation, outside of sustainability and agriculture?

Works Cited: 

Amarasinghe, Upali A., Chu Thai Hoanh, Dave D'haeze, and Tran Quoc Hung. "Toward Sustainable Coffee Production in Vietnam: More Coffee with Less Water." Agricultural Systems 136 (2015): 96-105. Web. 3 Mar. 2016.

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