SOME TRADITIONAL NATIONAL VALUES OF VIETNAM IN THE NEW CONTEXT

Abstract

In the paper, the author considers conceptions of value, national values, and traditional national values, and from that point brings out and analyzes some traditional national values of Vietnam: patriotism, spirit of independence, unity and social order, harmony with nature, tolerance and adaptability, flexibility in resolving problems etc. In “the new context”, i.e. in the contemporary time, those values have changed in different ways, and almost all of them continue to exist as values in the modern society, not disappear, since they all contribute to build the present Vietnamese people and society.