Vietnamese National Characters Influnced By The Culture Of Village Community

The topic of the essay is the national characters of the Vietnamese.By analyzing the connection between the national character and the culture of village community,the research will explain the underlying causes of the representative characters of Vietnamese and how the characters influence their daily life.The traditional mode of the rice production makes the Vietnamese relay on the nature.Therefore,the Vietnamese peasants must work in unity and help one another to fulfill the task.It was time to form village community,Self-governing and intercommunity are the main characters in Vietnamese culture.There are some positive and negative influences in their characters for the long existence of the village community.The village community of Vietnam is like a small kingdom that possesses its own system of law.So the high degree of self-governing cohere the Vietnamese together.It can protect their community,village,and their country from the invasion of the outside world.The high degree of the collective sense leads the strong patriotism.Furthermore it also leads to the positive characters,such as harmony and unity,tolerance and kindness,and treasuring affection.Meanwhile,there are some negative effects born in the culture of village community,such as,randomness and dependence,laziness.With the changes of time,there are many negative effects in the development of the Vietnam from the experientialism and the localism,equalitarianism,and the small-scale peasant's mind born from the community and village.In market economy,those factors slow the development of the economy and ruralize the cities of Vietnam.Without doubt,it is the historical trend that the culture of village community have positive and negative influence on Vietnam.