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There are many different visual arts that still remain popular in Vietnam such as lacquerware, ink block prints, ceramics, woodblock printing, wood carving, jade carving, silk painting, and basketry. The main types of theater in Vietnam is classical opera, reform theater, and hat cheo. Most performances take place in rural theaters.
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There are 5 main religions, which are Buddhism, Catholicism, Protestantism, and Islam. The fifth is Cao Dai, and Hoa Hao, which emerged during the colonial period. Aside from different religions, many people in Vietnam believe in spirits. They believe that spirits can bring good fortune, or misfortune. There are many practitioners in Vietnam such as Christian priests, nuns, Islamic clerics, and Cao Dai and Hao Hao priests. In the picture it shows what a Buddhist monk looks like. There are spiritual priests that help with spirits.
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Vietnam is facing many challenges these days. Three main problem are official wrongdoing, religious groups against the government, and smuggling goods. The visual shows how the government goes against religious people, and smugglers with contraband.  The military there is split up into two parts, a main force and paramilitary forces. The main force is stuff like the navy and army. The paramilitary is responsible for stuff like border defense.
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One of the main viruses in Vietnam is HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). Some other viruses include malaria, hepatitis A,  hepatitis B syphilis, gonorrhea, measles, typhoid, dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis, cholera, leprosy, and tuberculosis.  Main problems with health, is that many hospitals are too poor to do anything about diseases. In the visual it shows a person that is sick, but the problem is that they have no money to do anything about it.
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The Vietnam war started in 1957. It started when the Vietnamese started a war against the French, because they wanted to get rid of the colonial agreement they made. The second fight was against the US when the US wanted to help France out. The second fight was a cold war between Vietnam and the US. The war finally ended in 1975 with Vietnam winning the war. In the picture it shows how the French started to fight Vietnam, but the US talked about their problems.
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In 1883 the French forced the Vietnamese emperor to let the French take over his country. For many years the French would be abusive to the natives in Vietnam. Later in the years, groups like the ICP, and the VNP overthrew the Japanese controlling the country. Later on September 2, 1945 Ho Chi Minh made the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
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In Vietnam, education is not a very big thing. Most children there only go to school until primary school. Children wanting to get a more educated job like medicine, or law will still go to school and learn in those departments. In Vietnam, people often wear bright colors. For recreational purposes, people there play a lot of the thing we do here like swimming, tennis, chess etc. A very common practice is martial arts. There things like judo, karate, and taekwondo are a very normal thing to find there. In the picture, it shows some examples of what some of these things looked like.
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In Vietnam, biomedicine is used a lot to help with symptoms. If biomedicine doesn’t work, than people usually go to home made herbal remedies, or herbal medicine. In the visual it shows that herbal medicine usually comes in liquid form that is usually swallowed, or rubbed on a certain part of the body. There are two main types of herbal medicines used, Chinese herbal medicine, and Vietnamese herbal medicine. In small cases people report to spirit specialists. They believe that people get sick, because of spirits with misfortune. So they make sure what is wrong with the spirit, and make them go away. The picture also shows a spirit medium fixing a problem with spirits.
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During ceremonies such as weddings, people eat bigger portions of food than what they eat daily. Usually they eat big portions of food like pork, chicken, and vegetable dishes served with rice. In the picture it shows how much food is consumed during these celebrations. Alcohol is also largely consumed during events like these. Big feasts like these are held, because it shows good relationships with the people you are eating with.
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One main rituals in Vietnam is Lunar New Year, when families come together to pay respect to family ancestors. There are many sacred places in Vietnam such as ancestral altars, lineage halls, temples of Buddhist or other affiliations, and Christian churches, etc. When people die, they have to have a funeral, or else they say that they will not pass to the other world. This world is where the dead spirits live. In the visual it shows what a shrine to a family member who passed away, or god looks like.

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Vietnam is 70% agriculture based for jobs. In Vietnam, it is very vital to have your own property, but the government makes it really hard to own your own. To buy property you need to use gold as currency. In Vietnam, For normal commodities, the most common items are salt, soaps, clothing, etc. They use Vietnamese dong , instead of gold to buy small and normal things. In the picture it shows what 500 dong looks like.
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Vietnamese people that live in rural places have many different types of houses. They range from many different materials, such as bamboo, clay, wood, etc. People there usually work in farms, or own a farm of their own. In the city life, Vietnam has many densely packed cities. Because Vietnam has a lot of traffic in cities, people use modes of transportation like, bikes, and cyclos. In the visual it shows the difference between rural, and city life.
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Rice is one of the main foods that people in Vietnam eat every day. In the picture it shows that rice s made with a rice cooker. When eating as a family, they have many dishes on one table, and people serve themselves the food they want from each dish. People there eat many different types of dishes like sauteed vegetables, tofu, a seafood-based broth with vegetables called canh, and a variety of meat dishes. If people were to eat outside of home, they would usually eat at stands that are outside. There they are usually served a meat based broth called pho. In the visual it also shows what pho looks like.
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Vietnam has many industries in its own country such as cigarettes, textiles, alcohol, etc. Vietnam also has many foreign investments such as mining, electronics assembly, etc. usually for export. Vietnam has many items they use for trade such as oil, marine products, rubber, etc. They also sell rice and coffee as their main export. Many of the items are shown in the visual above. In Vietnam, children work they are physically able to. In Vietnam, men do most of the harder work, while women do easier work than men. Over 80 percent of people in Vietnam work in unskilled labor like farming, and production.
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Vietnam’s government is consists of a lot of socialist.  Most power lies in the communist party, but the country also has a prime minister, a president that is head of the state, and an elected legislative. The Prime Minister Ho Chi Minh is a leader that believes that everybody should be equal. In the picture it shows the leader Ho Chi Minh, and the flag of Vietnam.
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In Vietnam, it is highly encouraged, to join something that is related to the arts. The government discourages deep messages, but people still show the world them. In the picture it depicts how some people talk about the meanings of people committing suicide, or reasons to go against the government. Literature is a main part of Vietnam’s artistic side. Vietnam also maintained a rich oral legacy of songs, poems, and morality tales people still read, and talk about today.
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