Civil Society In Vietnam

Civil society in Vietnam
Vietnam has become a part of international globalization trends since the last century. Civil society is become more and more crucial in the modern social context. In Vietnam, people have been debating for a long time about how long has civil society exist in Vietnam and what is exactly the role and participation of CSOs (Civil society organization) in solving problems caused by globalization process.
At first, in nature, “civil society” in Vietnam is definitely a body of international agenda. It is related to international assistance and development. According to Wells-Dang (2012), “anything resembling the various definitions of civil society seems to be lacking.” In global scale, Vietnamese civil society is recorded as an negative example. In fact, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) is the only political party in Vietnam and it dominants every domestic organization. As the result, the growth of independent CSOs is limited. The CPV does not support the organizations as well as the groups which have identity and interest outside its framework (Sabharwal and Huong 2005). Also according to them, “Mass organizations have been the largest and most dominant of social groupings. They occupied the space that civil society organizations tend to occupy across other countries and political

Top two concepts to mention would be 'how people communicate ' and 'what it is acceptable to discuss '. People often merely focused on economy, politic, communication and culture when they talk about globalization but language system also plays an important role in this trend. English nowadays is known as “Globalish”, language for worldwide communicate. The Vietnamese young can communicate and make friends with people around the world by using English. Government supports the English programs in order to serve the future of country. It can be said is that the trend of globalization effects strongly to all aspects of social life in Vietnam, English as a necessary tool to Vietnam to rise sharply, along with the world began in the investment and development of the country. Moreover, according to Vietnam 's education law - Article 7 provides that "the provisions of Foreign Languages in education are the language commonly used in international transactions. Organizing the teaching foreign language in schools and other educational institutions need to ensure learners can learn continuously and effectively "(Vietnam Education Law, 2005). Because of large number of people can speak English, ICSOs as well as domestic CSOs can connect to citizens and conducts their work more easily. Communication changes also mean that people can speak to different people faster, and often much more

Then they should identify where a problem has developed, and finally suggest and pressure lawmakers to improve the laws to cover the new situation. There is an excellent example about the role of CSOs in solving environmental problems in Vietnam. By looking at the general changing context of Vietnam after Doi Moi, the CSOs found that Vietnam transformed their centrally-planned to a more market-based approach. Not only foreign trade rises dramatically but also the pollution level. Dangers include serious forest degradation, environmental pollution and loss of natural resources, and the growing threat of climate change. The process to deal with them is very difficult and expensive. Moreover, it harms the national economy and slows down the developing programs because government has to spend budget for it. (Nga 2014). Knowing where the problems come from, CSOs work actively across