Vietnamese Family Values
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Vietnamese society is family oriented and essentially classless. The family is the center of the Vietnamese common man's preoccupation and backbone of Vietnamese society. The Vietnamese family is especially important and close-knit. Held together by the ancestor cult, the family is the first loyalty of the Vietnamese before his duty to country. Vietnamese family structure of socialization is more complex than that of the American family. In the Vietnamese family roles are more numerous and more fined than in its American counterpart.
In Vietnamese culture the interest and destiny of an individual are rarely conceptualized outside the structure of the immediate and extended families. Anything a man does, he does out of family consideration rather than for himself as an individual. To the Vietnamese, life is the most precious property to which no material possession can be compared. The preservation of the self is not only a personal responsibility but also the responsibility of an individual toward his family...