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In Vietnam, the term 8x generation is generally used to label the cohort of persons sharing a particular statistical or demographic characteristic who were born in the 1980s. This term was created by the poet Phan Huyền Thư who in an interview has loosely defined 8x as a generation living in fast pace, engaging in cyber world, enjoying hi-tech gadgets like trendy cell phones and Honda motorbikes, worshiping individualism: "Earning money, Enjoying, Self-affirming. These three factors create the portrait of 8x." (Kiếm tiền. Hưởng thụ. Khẳng định mình. Ba yếu tố đó làm nên diện mạo 8x.").
But she missed one hidden factor: support by powerful parents who are in a higher class of society.
While the public content is not so much focused on these kids themselves, but their enablers who exploit their positions to obtain wealth at the expense of the public, the 8x generation getting lost and addicted to sex activity are natural and obvious. As a result, the most recent case Vang Anh's Diaries didn't stay within the national border. Instead, it appears on TIME magazine, and in a long coverage by The Associated Press, as following.
Sex and Censors in Vietnam
Looks like America's celebrity-sex-tape phenomenon has arrived in conservative Vietnam. A racy clip starring the 19-year-old female star of Vang Anh's Diaries—a hit show among younger viewers—was posted anonymously on YouTube.
NO BIG DEAL, RIGHT? Actually, Vietnam Television was so incensed that it dropped the entire series within days, and star Hoang Thuy Linh tearfully apologized to her fans. Naturally, the Web clip continues to circulate.
(Time Magazine, Nov 5, 2007 issue)
Vietnam Is Having Paris Hilton Moment
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — An online sex video featuring a popular celebrity has riveted the nation for more than a week now, much as Hilton's clip seized the attention of Americans when it hit the Internet several years ago.
But unlike Hilton, the 19-year-old woman at the center of Vietnam's sex scandal won't be able to capitalize on her newfound notoriety.
Hoang Thuy Linh's show has been canceled and the actress has made a tearful farewell on national television.
"I made a mistake, a terrible mistake," said the doe-faced teen, who had cultivated a good-girl image. "I apologize to you, my parents, my teachers and my friends."
Her fall from grace has highlighted the generational fault-lines in Vietnam, a sexually conservative culture within which women have been taught for centuries to remain chaste until marriage and stay true to one man — no matter how many times he cheats on them.
Like everything else in this economically booming country, ideas about sex and gender roles are quickly changing as satellite TV and the Internet bring Western influences to a society cut off by decades of war and economic isolation.
But for many in communist Vietnam, new ideas about free love are much harder to accept than the free market. And unlike men, women who break the old sexual taboos are not easily forgiven.
"Kids today are crazy," said Nguyen Thi Khanh, 49, a Hanoi junior high school teacher. "They often exceed the limits of morality. They have sex and fall in love when they're much too young."
In the old days, Khanh said, a woman who had sex before marriage would be ostracized.
"A good girl must keep herself clean until she is married," Khanh said. "Thuy Linh should be condemned. If I ever see her again on TV, I will turn it off, for sure."
In "Vang Anh's Diaries," Thuy Linh portrayed an earnest high school girl, modern and stylish but determined to uphold the traditional virtues of "cong, dung, ngon" and "hanh," which promote women as tidy, charming, soft-spoken and chaste.
Then the 16-minute video hit the Internet on Oct. 15 featuring Thuy Linh in bed with her former boyfriend, both of them apparently aware that they were on camera.
On Thursday, Hanoi police detained four college students accused of posting the sex clip to the Internet. They could face charges of "spreading depraved cultural items," which carries a sentence of six months to 15 years if convicted.
Police identified the man in the clip as 20-year-old Vu Hoang Viet, who is currently studying overseas. They said a friend copied the film off of Viet's laptop, and passed it along to other friends who then posted it online.
Most of the public's wrath has been directed at Thuy Linh rather than Viet.
"People will forgive him, but not her," said Tran Minh Nguyet of the Vietnam Women's Union, which promotes gender equality. "Vietnamese think it's OK for a boy to have sex at that age, but not for a girl. It's absolutely unfair."
The video has been the talk of Vietnam. Even members of Vietnam's National Assembly were overheard gossiping about it last week at the opening of the new legislative session.
A few lonely voices have sprung up in Thuy Linh's defense. But in most newspapers and on blogs and Web sites, the video has become the target of jokes and condemnation.
VietnamNet, a popular online newspaper, said the episode underscored the "dark side of globalization" and warned that a flood of foreign influences "threaten Vietnam's cultural foundation."
The scandal also has disillusioned many of Thuy Linh's biggest fans.
"She was supposed to set a good example for Vietnamese students nationwide," said Chi, 14, a Hanoi junior high school student who declined to give her full name. "Now this scandal has ruined everything. It's completely destroyed her image."
Hilton's sex tape, made with then-boyfriend Rick Salomon in eerie night-vision green, surfaced just before the start of her reality TV series, "The Simple Life" and helped propel her to superstardom.
But in Vietnam, the video scandal is certain to destroy Thuy Linh's career, said Nguyet of the Vietnam Women's Union.
"Vietnam is changing quickly, but there's no way Thuy Linh will be forgiven," Nguyet said. "That will take another generation." (The Associated Press)
TRASH, pablominto, PSYOPS, Flamboyant, nicol_g, ChristineLe trouve(nt) cette note utile
TRASH (0) 2007-10-29 10:24
If the purpose of this posting is a warning to "the powerful parents who are in a higher class of society", then you should receive their sincere appreciations.
PSYOPS (0) 2007-10-29 12:19
Thanh:
You have collected good quoted articles. However, I am not sure about "higher class of society" in a socialist country like Vietnam. I remember when analyzed "Classes and Class Struggle", Mao had said:
"Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary section of the intelligentsia attached to them. The leading force in our revolution is the industrial proletariat. Our closest friends are the entire semi-proletariat and petty bourgeoisie. As for the vacillating middle bourgeoisie, their right wing may become our enemy and their left wing may become our friend - but we must be constantly on our guard and not let them create confusion within our ranks."
"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."
(Mao Tse Tung)
So, where are we now? I hope someone would give us the answer.
Flamboyant (0) 2007-10-29 17:48
Your posting was right on again. After the Vàng Anh's Diaries, The Youth Daily News is running serial named "instant sex" (tình dục thoáng), and in today article, they published "Express Train model": "Môđen bây giờ là đi "tàu nhanh", có nhu cầu thì cứ "xé vé"; xong thì thôi, chẳng việc gì phải nhọc xác tha đồ tha đạc về ở chung một phòng trọ, lại phải nghĩa vụ cơm nước, giặt giũ, đưa đón..." (The current model is "Express Train", grasp the ticket as needed, off afterward instead of moving in to live together with obligation of cooking, laundry service and pick-ups, drop-offs…)
Well, I wish I am able to translate the entire story. For those who read Vietnamese, here is the link.
QuanVu (39) 2007-10-30 17:05 [Comment]
"But she missed one hidden factor: support by powerful parents who are in a higher class of society."
The statement or assessment is quite corrected and acurate. However, nothing is new since America already experiencing it since late 60s, when their parents working hard to earn money, the children of that generation were called "hippies" , who hang out to enjoy free drugs, free alcohol and free sex – along with the "revolution" of women in "Equal Rights", birth control pill, etc… that turn society upside down and still not looking back. The proof in Paris Hilton is an sample. It may take 2 generations or more for VN to correct this, because as long as it's society still blame it's female at fault 100%, then other young men like the ex-boy friend will try to do the same, because of no consequence or guilt on them. I don't care if a girl was acted like a whore or not, but to destroy a young but made a stupid mistake like this girl is beyond my understanding.
sothy81 (9646) 2007-12-17 7:06
What's a great shot with this one. I agree with you with the title. His behavior is strang on the motocycle... as if he sit down and crossing his leg. Sothy
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