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Vietnamese sayings of good fortune and a happy marriage for the couple are seen in many wedding decorations. Traditional and modern symbols of marriage are often featured during Vietnamese marriage ceremonies as decorations on the wedding umbrellas, lacquer gift boxes (or the red cloth that covers them), or even the decorations in the homes of ...
In fact, Vietnamese women comprehensively participate in the local life of these borderlands. [24] According to the survey about the satisfaction of Vietnamese women's international marriage, the results show that 83.6% of them are happy with their marriage mainly because the improvement of material conditions of their lives. [25]
The first feminist women's organization in Vietnam was the Nu Cong Hoc Hoi under Madame Nguyen Khoa Tung in Hue in 1926, who voiced the demands of the bourgouise women's movement, which mainly centered around educational and professional opportunities, polygamy and child marriage. [55] The Vietnamese women's movement was in effect incorporated ...
Not all of the transnational marriages in the Sino-Vietnamese border areas are consensual. Girls are considered a "prized commodity" in rural China as a result of the country's adoption of the one-child policy in 1979, which led to widespread sex-selective abortion and female infanticide due to a cultural preference for male children. [4]
Vietnamese migrant brides in Taiwan represent marriages between Taiwanese men and Vietnamese brides who are mostly from poor, rural areas of South Vietnam, such as those along the Mekong Delta. [1] As of 2006, out of Taiwan’s immigrant population of approximately 428,240 people (up from 30,288 in 1991), 18% were females who had relocated to ...
The press dubbed it Operation Diaper Run. The first group of war brides (452 British women and their 173 children, and one bridegroom) left Southampton harbor on SS Argentina on January 26, 1946, and arrived in the U.S. on February 4, 1946. [19]
The inter-ethnic marriage between Chinese and Vietnamese brought Chinese customs into Vietnam society. For example, crocodiles were eaten by Vietnamese while they were taboo and off-limits for Chinese. Vietnamese women who married Chinese men adopted the Chinese taboo. [134] Vietnamese women were wedded to the Chinese who helped sell Viet Minh ...
The Vietnamese Women’s Museum contains approximately 40,000 materials and artifacts, a permanent exhibition, frequent special exhibitions and an immersive audio guide illustrating the lives of Vietnamese women in the past, wartime and contemporary society. [7] The items were gathered by the museum and Vietnam Women’s Union since the 1970s. [8]