Race with China

When finding this graph I have realized the Asian countries to compete with each other. China is able to attract more companies to build factories in their country and this is how they have started to lead in our worlds economy. India on the other hand is either doing very well or is failing, i think this is because there weather is very unpredictable and creates devastation so companies are nervous about investing so much money. But the Vietnam is in the middle is slowly increasing and trying to build a better economy and compete with China for industry. So in years to come it will be interesting to see how their government will react to this competition.

Vietnam's Government

The communist Party is dominating Vietnam right now. In the new constitution written in 1980 it states that there will be only one party, the communist party, and no one should question their authority. This then lead to a much more strict rule, with less humanitarian rights granted to the citizens.There is a centralized system and powers are only given to a selective few. There is a hierarchy similar to most governments, but these positions are not elected by the public but rather the assembly. The president doesn't have any authority, and is in office for 10 years. This government has been quite corrupted. They have been known to frame and wrongly execute laws to kill their enemies. There are not set rules here. Though they have many laws they are written in a way so that they can twist them anyway they want.

Here is the president of Vietnam with the communist flag behind him.

The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict between Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1955 to 1975. These countries were fighting about communism and divided many people including Vietnam into north and south. The North Vietnam supported communist and South Vietnam supported the US and other anti-communist countries. The US got involved because they wanted to make sure South Vietnam didn't spread communism. They wanted to make sure to keep it contained in south Vietnam. Both sides of Vietnam viewed this war as a sort of civil war and maybe even being colonized by the other side. There are many consequences we see in United States. This war cost 58,000 American deaths and 1-2 million Vietnamese deaths. The war didn't truly accomplish much and United States pulled out. This war created ciaos in America also. Many people didn't understand why we were there and many people say this is the most unliked war in our history. Many young people created protests and rallies and made sure people knew how unhappy they were about the governments decisions.

Here is a detailed Timeline of the Vietnam War 



Education in Vietnam

Education in Vietnam is very important and taken very seriously. The culture has a great respect for learning and understanding what is taught. Education was first primarily for social mobility between north and the south. But now it has become much more than that. They start very young in Vietnam. Need to be in school for a 6 day week by the age of 5. This is a lot of time but sometimes the schools need to cute days back to half days because of over crowding. Education is one of the only ways that you could improve your life in Vietnam. Families will sacrifice almost anything to make sure their children get an education.  So though children start working young they are probably still going to school or some type of education. Unlike here there is placement and depending how you do there are many different paths you can take( you can see an example at the bottom of this post).There are many steps in ones education as you can see from the diagram below and though many people go to a college only 11% of students go to a university because they are only private and are quite expensive. Currently the government is giving 20% of all the governments money to education. Which is a huge amount. This shows even more how education mean so much to them.

Land Usage in Vietnam

Religion Distribution

What does Communism mean today?