scholarly journals Mekong Delta floating market – cultural features of Vietnamese people in the South of Vietnam

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Le Van Ngo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
The South ◽  
Southern Culture ◽  
Territorial Expansion ◽  
Cultural Complex ◽  
Specific Culture ◽  
Cultural Features

Vietnamese people, in the process of conquering the new land – Mekong Delta, joined other ethnic minorities of Vietnam blood in not only turning the land once uncultivated into fertile plains, into granaries of the whole country, but also created a cultural complex on the basis of inheriting traditional cultural values. The process of territorial expansion, sovereignty establishment, sovereignty enforcement and sovereignty protection is a process of adaptation and creativity of the Vietnamese in the new environment. It was the process of co-existence and conquest of the new land that formed the Southern culture with disparities in comparison with other cultural areas in Vietnam, which the researchers call "rural civilization", "river civilization". When it came to talking to the South, river areas were always mentioned. The communities there knew how to effectively exploit the elements of water not only to make their own cultural features, but also to contribute to socio-economic development. "Floating" markets were closely associated with the activities of "commerce on river" – an economic activity deeply engraved with the stamp of a cultural region which moulded the own specific culture of the South. Our paper presents the floating market in the Mekong River delta – cultural characteristics of the Vietnamese in the South of Vietnam.

scholarly journals Attribution of Long-Term Evapotranspiration Trends in the Mekong River Basin with a Remote Sensing-Based Process Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 303
Author(s):  
Shi Hu ◽  
Xingguo Mo
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Solar Radiation ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
Catchment Management ◽  
Mekong River Basin ◽  
Area Index ◽  
Available Water

Using the Global Land Surface Satellite (GLASS) leaf area index (LAI), the actual evapotranspiration (ETa) and available water resources in the Mekong River Basin were estimated with the Remote Sensing-Based Vegetation Interface Processes Model (VIP-RS). The relative contributions of climate variables and vegetation greening to ETa were estimated with numerical experiments. The results show that the average ETa in the entire basin increased at a rate of 1.16 mm year−2 from 1980 to 2012 (36.7% of the area met the 95% significance level). Vegetation greening contributed 54.1% of the annual ETa trend, slightly higher than that of climate change. The contributions of air temperature, precipitation and the LAI were positive, whereas contributions of solar radiation and vapor pressure were negative. The effects of water supply and energy availability were equivalent on the variation of ETa throughout most of the basin, except the upper reach and downstream Mekong Delta. In the upper reach, climate warming played a critical role in the ETa variability, while the warming effect was offset by reduced solar radiation in the Mekong Delta (an energy-limited region). For the entire basin, the available water resources showed an increasing trend due to intensified precipitation; however, in downstream areas, additional pressure on available water resources is exerted due to cropland expansion with enhanced agricultural water consumption. The results provide scientific basis for practices of integrated catchment management and water resources allocation.

scholarly journals The origins of cultural divergence: evidence from Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoang-Anh Ho ◽  
Peter Martinsson ◽  
Ola Olsson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Current Distribution ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Population Census ◽  
Territorial Expansion ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
North Vietnam

AbstractCultural norms diverge substantially across societies, often within the same country. We propose and investigate a self-domestication/selective migration hypothesis, proposing that cultural differences along the individualism–collectivism dimension are driven by the out-migration of individualistic people from collectivist core regions of states to peripheral frontier areas, and that such patterns of historical migration are reflected even in the current distribution of cultural norms. Gaining independence in 939 CE after about a thousand years of Chinese colonization, historical Vietnam emerged in the region that is now north Vietnam with a collectivist social organization. From the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries, historical Vietnam gradually expanded its territory southward to the Mekong River Delta through repeated waves of conquest and migration. Using a nationwide household survey, a population census, and a lab-in-the-field experiment, we demonstrate that areas annexed earlier to historical Vietnam are currently more prone to collectivist norms, and that these cultural norms are embodied in individual beliefs. Relying on many historical accounts, together with various robustness checks, we argue that the southward out-migration of individualistic people during the eight centuries of the territorial expansion is an important driver, among many others, of these cultural differences.

scholarly journals The Cultural Factors in the MOOC Design in China from Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 13201325
Author(s):  
Xin Yang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Hofstede’S Cultural Dimensions ◽  
High Power Distance ◽  
Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Cultural Features

With their massiveness and openness, Moocs have become one of the most widespread and influential online learning forms, which leads to the fact that more and more designers with different cultural backgrounds are getting involved in the course design. As a result, the Mooc design such as the styles of the organization and presentation may correspondingly be influenced by cultural values of the designers, and then become barriers for learners. In order to locate the cultural influence reflected in the Mooc design in China, the introductory videos of three courses published on Coursera, which are designed by three well-known universities in China, are sampled for analysis from the aspects of power distance, individualism/collectivism and masculinity/femininity within the framework of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions. The findings indicate that the cultural features of the high-power distance, collectivism and femininity have shown their influence on the designing of these courses.

scholarly journals Phonological Features of the Amharic Variety of South Wəllo

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Baye Yimam
Keyword(s):  
Word Boundary ◽  
Standard Variety ◽  
The South ◽  
Phonological Features ◽  
Linguistic Groups ◽  
Cultural Features ◽  
Phonological Rules

This paper examines the phonological features that characterize the Amharic variety spoken in South Wəllo, an area which has been influenced by the diffusion of linguistic and cultural features arising from longstanding contact situations between Semitic and non-Semitic linguistic groups. Data from eight districts of the zone have shown that the South Wəllo variety has 26 consonant and seven vowel phonemes. The consonants are four fewer than that reported of the standard variety. The co-occurrence restrictions of the consonants and the syllable structures are the same as those of the standard variety. However, the phonological rules that operate at morpheme internal, morpheme and word boundary levels are different in the degree of complexity and directionality. These include inter-vocalic lenition of velar stops, word-final weakening of alveo-palatals, coalescence of lowering diphthongs, centering, lowering and fronting of vowels, metathesis of coronals and anteriors, and lexeme specific alternations of homorganic consonants. The description of the facts provides more substantive arguments in favor of the long-held claim that Wəllo constitutes a distinct dialect area.

The Tupi: explaining origin and expansions in terms of archaeology and of historical linguistics

Antiquity ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (277) ◽  
pp. 648-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Silva Noelli
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Site Location ◽  
Territorial Expansion ◽  
Linguistic Data ◽  
Centre Of Origin ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Cultural Features

Interest in explaining scientifically the enormous territorial expansion of the Tupi has been an issue since 1838, now with a consensus: a common centre of origin existed, from which the Tupi fanned out, differentiating through distinct historic and cultural processes whilst keeping several common cultural features. But there is no consensus as to where the centre was located and where passed the routes of expansion.Scholars have often asserted this hypothesis, but contributed very little scientific proof. Since 1960, archaeological (site location, radiocarbon and thermoluminescent dating) and linguistic data (glottochronology, relationships among languages) have been brought to the scene.

Il turismo responsabile e il rapporto coi residenti

2014 ◽  
pp. 83-102
Author(s):  
Sergio Fadini
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The South ◽  
Tourism Impact ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Responsible Tourism

The relationship between tourism and local residents is one of the most important problems of the tourist governance in a site; both in mature tourism destinations like European cultural towns, or in other sites, and where tourism is a novelty, so problems can be more. The concept of responsible tourism was born for helping local communities that bear tourism impact, using the values of sustainable development. So, inside it, this theme is very important, for who think that local communites must be more active in tourism; and for who think that it’s enough if they gain money from tourist activities. This paper analyzes the situation in Matera, a little town in the south of Italy, where tourism is becoming an important economic activity. Here there are daily problems between who plan and citizens. A planning concerning not only tourism, as the restricted traffic zone.

Tonlesapia amnica, a new species of dragonet (Teleostei: Callionymidae) from the Mekong delta HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & WALTER J. RAINBOTH (USA)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3052 (1) ◽  
pp. 62 ◽  
Author(s):  
HEOK HEE NG ◽  
WALTER J. RAINBOTH
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
Ventral Margin ◽  
Caudal Peduncle ◽  
Southern Vietnam ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Infraorbital Canal ◽  
Fin Rays ◽  
A New Species

Tonlesapia amnica, a new species of dragonet lacking a first dorsal fin, is described from the Mekong River delta in southern Vietnam. It can be distinguished from its sole congener, T. tsukawakii, in having the infraorbital canal extending beyond (vs. not reaching) ventral margin of orbit, a more slender body (7.2–13.5% SL vs. 14.3–15.0) and caudal peduncle (4.4–5.2% SL vs. 5.1–6.3), a smaller eye (6.5–8.3% SL vs. 8.7–9.2) and more dorsal-fin rays (9–10 vs. 8).

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