Globalization, Consumerism, and the Emergence of Teens in Contemporary Vietnam: Table 1.

Nguyen, Huong

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“…Thus, the youth coming of age in the late 1990s and early 2000s were the first generation exposed to the idea that the teenage years represented a distinct culture characterized by consumption, and accentuating one's identity through bodily beauty and accessories. This was also the first time that Vietnamese teenagers were exposed to the idea that being "sexy" was "cool", rather than being an indicator of immorality or a barrier to academic achievement as in the past [14].…”

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“…However, through pervasive distribution of teen magazines, newspapers (such as Hoa Hoc Tro), and national television and radio programs, Vietnamese teenagers in 2003 received a rather unified exposure to Western culture, particularly American teen culture [13,14]. During the early 2000s, the English term "teen" was first borrowed from the American media and appeared in the most influential newspapers targeting adolescents in Vietnam [14]. It first appeared in 2001 in Hoa Hoc Tro, and quickly spread to become a household word denoting a new social group in Vietnam: the "teen Viet".…”

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“…Teenagers becoming pregnant outside of marriage embodies nuanced interactions between two significant social transformations in Vietnamese society: the emergence of teenagers as an unprecedented distinct social group [12][13][14], and a quiet "sexual revolution" occurring in Vietnam, both of which accompany modernization and globalization [15,16]. Nguyen [12][13][14] suggests that since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, the concept of adolescence in Vietnam has gone through three distinct phases corresponding to three political-social-economic phases of the country: adolescents as miniature communists (1975)(1976)(1977)(1978)(1979)(1980)(1981)(1982)(1983)(1984)(1985)(1986); adolescents characterized by romantic sentiments, puberty, and identity search (1986)(1987)(1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995); and adolescents as the new "teen Viet" and vanguards of capitalist consumption (1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005). These distinct conceptualizations of adolescence influenced thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors of each respective cohort of Vietnamese adolescents, especially in relation to their sexuality.…”

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Prevalence and Factors Associated with Teen Pregnancy in Vietnam: Results from Two National Surveys

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This study asked two broad questions: (1) show that the prevalence of pregnancy among Vietnamese teenagers in the surveys was stable at 4%, or 40 pregnancies per 1000 adolescent girls aged 14 to 19. Age, experience of domestic violence, and early sexual debut were positively correlated with higher odds of teenage pregnancy for both survey cohorts; however, being an ethnic minority, educational attainment, sexual education at school, Internet use, and depressive symptoms were significantly related to teenage pregnancy only in the 2008 cohort.

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“…On the cultural/social dimensions, the pursuit of comfort and convenience, as well as local well-being, can trump distant global concerns on future environmental change. In particular, consumerist ideologies and practices in DCs are welcomed or even celebrated as "ideal", "modern" and "advanced" ways of life by people in LDCs and have greatly shaped patterns of consumption as well as individual feelings, identity and status [135][136][137]. The global embrace of consumerism has legitimated and spread unsustainable lifestyles and dissolved individual responsibility towards the environment by putting personal desires above all else.…”

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Environmental Homogenization or Heterogenization? The Effects of Globalization on Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 1970–2014

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Globalization significantly influences climate change. Ecological modernization theory and world polity theory suggest that globalization reduces carbon dioxide emissions worldwide by facilitating economic, political, social, and cultural homogenization, whereas ecological unequal exchange theory indicates that cumulative economic and political disparities lead to an uneven distribution of emissions in developed and less developed countries. This study addresses this controversy and systematically investigates the extent to which different dimensions of globalization influence carbon emissions in developed and less developed countries by treating globalization as a dynamic historical process involving economic, political, and social/cultural dimensions in a long-term, cross-national context. Drawing on data for 137 countries from 1970 to 2014, we find that while globalization, social and cultural globalization in particular, has enabled developed countries to significantly decrease their carbon emissions, it has led to more emissions in less developed countries, lending support to the ecological unequal exchange theory. Consistent with world polity theory, international political integration has contributed to carbon reductions over time. We highlight the internal tension between environmental conservation and degradation in a globalizing world and discuss the opportunities for less developed countries to reduce emissions.

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“…Templer (1998), , and Nguyen-Thu (2019) argue that enthusiastic consumption of global mass culture then reflects local people's desire for the outside world where greater creativity and freedom is possible. Foreign popular culture and icons began to play a significant role in promoting values from which younger audiences construct their own identities Huong Nguyen, 2015b). The emergence of new values forged through such influences has also overlapped with the rise of consumerism in Southeast Asia (Chung Peichi, 2013).…”

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Vietnamese Reception Of Soft Masculinities In Korean Television Dramas: Desires, Identifications, And Gender

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This doctoral thesis explores Vietnamese audience reception of soft masculinities, defined by the aestheticisation and romantic idealisation of male characters, in South Korean television dramas (K-dramas). Based on interview data collected in 2019, the thesis focuses on patterns of gendered desire, identification, and negotiation in viewers in their 20s and 30s. It highlights the popularity of K-dramas in Vietnam, which have established an enduring presence there since the late 1990s, overlapping with ongoing changes in gender relations following the introduction of the 1986 Đổi Mới (reform) policy, marked by Vietnam’s transition to a market economy and gradual integration into global trade. The thesis demonstrates how the spread of this “Korean Wave” is correlated with a changing local mediascape, the rise of a consumer culture, and a growing interest in exploring the self. In this thesis, I adopt the Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI) method, which draws on the solicitation of free talk and storytelling and psychosocial attention to case studies in order to connect interview participants’ biographical details with their viewing experiences. The study is influenced by Judith Butler’s theoretical work on gender and performativity, as well as related material by scholars such as Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu. I highlight how a nuanced understanding of the viewing experience treats it as a complex process linked to an individual’s biographical details and explore how this process intertwines with larger sociocultural contexts, including local norms, Confucian values, feminism, Western gender images, notions of modernity, and globalised aesthetic ideals. The study reveals that although gendered desires and identifications are shaped by norms, they can also subvert them, and thus provides empirical evidence for Butler’s theories from a Vietnamese context. It also shows that desires and identifications that result from engagement with fantasy on screen may follow viewers’ personalised logics and open up multiple avenues for interpretations. Prominent themes of viewing experiences in relation to soft masculinities analysed in this thesis include escapism, parasocial interactions with characters, romantic imaginations, melancholic identification with romantic relationships on screen, desires for upward mobility, queer pleasures, ambivalence, and disidentification. The thesis thus contributes to contemporary Vietnamese studies, gender studies, psychosocial studies, media audience studies, and research on the Korean Wave.

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Globalization, Consumerism, and the Emergence of Teens in Contemporary Vietnam: Table 1.

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Prevalence and Factors Associated with Teen Pregnancy in Vietnam: Results from Two National Surveys

Prevalence and Factors Associated with Teen Pregnancy in Vietnam: Results from Two National Surveys

Environmental Homogenization or Heterogenization? The Effects of Globalization on Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 1970–2014

Vietnamese Reception Of Soft Masculinities In Korean Television Dramas: Desires, Identifications, And Gender

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