Always respect traditional values
(Baonghean) - I thank Nghe An Newspaper for bringing up the issue of "Traditional Values" of Hai Trieu in the issue published on November 22, 2012 at this very timely time. This is indeed a good article. This topic is very attractive to all classes of people, because it has been and is posing many opposite directions. Some people agree with the Western lifestyle, considering it civilized, progressive, scientific, and free. The ego is promoted to the maximum, criticizing the Eastern lifestyle as restrictive, as hindering the development of human talent and intelligence... On the contrary, some people praise the Eastern lifestyle as a lifestyle full of "humanity" and "humanity", they criticize the Western lifestyle without reserve. There are also those who are indifferent because, according to them: They do not know clearly about these two Eastern and Western lifestyles, they are not really thorough, so they praise and criticize. That praise and criticism is mainly based on visual impressions and subjective statements...
In my opinion, Western people are people who have absorbed their way of life quite firmly. Over time, they have accepted it consciously or unconsciously, and then consider that thing, that life as a natural thing that cannot be denied. And it is also life that helps them gently adjust slowly, quietly, or add, or subtract, to then come to a comfortable acceptance.
In the East, we have just accepted it. And no one forces us to accept it, no one propagates it, so how is it, because that way of life comes in many different ways. Either we follow their children who "went to the West" back, or we hear about this and that in the West, then we follow it ourselves to appear like ourselves, or we imitate movies, or we listen to people who have gone far away boasting... And now, in this period of integration, we still have to accept many things that are unpleasant to the eyes and ears, not because they are perverse or unreasonable, but because we are not used to them and their ears are not suitable.
When entering life, Western people want things to be clear and distinct, parents are parents, children are children, no confusion, each person takes care of their own work. That increases independence, great responsibility, no dependence, no need to bother each other, especially they promote the role of "men" who dare to take risks, dare to take responsibility, and are a solid support for women, which sometimes due to mistaken perception we often call flattering women. If while there are both men and women, there is a job that needs to be done (which can be suitable for both types of people to do), then the man must definitely do it, definitely not avoid it. In the East, it is often the opposite. Even when a couple goes to the market, of course the husband must carry the bag. They consider it an honor because they are doing a noble job. In the East, it is definitely the wife who must carry the bag. Furthermore, life also requires people to always be urgent, scientific rhythm, not allowing slowness and procrastination.
Analyzing more closely some Eastern lifestyles: The girls have just grown up and have small children, when they go to work they are always grumpy because of the busyness from home. Moreover, when life is improved, the desires and requirements of each individual also require more time. In the past, people woke up to eat hastily, washed their faces hastily, and dressed their clothes hastily. Nowadays, that is not possible. They have to eat nutritiously so that their faces do not get tanned, and what kind of water should they use to wash their faces to reduce wrinkles. And then there is also a little powder and a box of wax so that their lips are not pale...
On the other hand, we often do not think that the scientific problems we have today are all based on the scientific achievements of yesterday. The television, the telephone, even the world's greatest scientific works today are all based on the achievements of yesterday. Yet today's generation always opens its mouth to criticize the people of yesterday as backward. Children say their parents are conservative, children say the elderly are slow-moving. In today's era, criticizing the old era as outdated... Saying so is betrayal or, more accurately, an aspect of betrayal, is not wanting to look back at the past. The past took a lot of effort and intelligence, even blood and sweat to create the present. We need to realize that: We can progress more than yesterday but cannot progress more than tomorrow, just as how can people of yesterday progress more than today. Therefore, we must always be grateful and respect those of yesterday, because they have made progress over yesterday, so we have a place to stand today to surpass tomorrow and then our descendants can stand on that tomorrow to advance to the day before, creating the law of general progress of mankind. That is the correct perspective of a person who is called knowledgeable. We today have the responsibility to find the gap of yesterday to make up for it to make today more perfect, just as the next generation has the responsibility to find the gap of today to make up for it to make tomorrow more perfect and so on.
Returning to the story "Let's cherish traditional values" by Hai Trieu, I strongly agree that we are people who have been raised by our parents and people, taught and enlightened by teachers, guided and opened by the Party, inherited many very good things in the Ho Chi Minh era, influenced by the traditional customs of a nation that is both heroic, intelligent and hard-working, rich in affection, generous in kindness, distinguishing right from wrong, knowing how to unite, love and protect each other. We are proud and always know how to distinguish right from wrong, cherish, appreciate and cherish the traditional values of the past and we also know very clearly that: We can only stand shoulder to shoulder with humanity in the world when we know how to stand firmly on the foundation of the good traditions of our nation. And that is also the launching pad for us to fly up.
Vinh, November 23, 2012
Le Hoa Mai (House 11 - Lane 65, Ton That Tung Street, Xuan Bac Ward - Hung Dung Ward - Vinh City)
