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Vietnam –past and present

Thesis: Vietnamese people, Vietnamese culture and Vietnamese society have changed a lot in the past 10 years.

I.               Food

A. Past

1. There are few restaurants and street-side stores.

2. There are only traditional foods such as rice, stir-fry, and noodles.

B. Present

1. There are many restaurants and street-side stores.

2. There are many foreign foods others than just Vietnamese food.

a. Italian food.

b. Chinese food.

c. Korean food.

d. Japanese food.

e. Thailand food.

            f. American food.

II.             Fashion

A.     Past

1.     Teachers have to wear traditional clothes when they go to school to teach.

2.     People do not care about fashionable.

B.     Present

1.     Teachers do not have to wear traditional clothes to school.

2.     People care a lot about fashion trend, especially the young generations.

III.           Communication in society

A.     Past

1.     People do not communicate with other people openly.

2.     Men cannot touch women in public.

B.     Present

1.     People are now very open.

2.     Communication between people and people are much better now

3.     Men and women can touch each other to a certain limit.

IV.            Family

A.     Past

1.     Children have to listen to everything that their parents tell them to do.

2.     Parents are rarely divorced

B.     Present

1.     Children can make some decision on their owns.

2.     More people are getting divorced.