The Republic Government of Vietnam’s culture policy on the Highland Minority Ethnic Groups (1954-1975)

Abstract

Due to the important strategic political and military standing, during the First Republic Government and the Second Republic Government of Vietnam, the ethnicity policy on Highland minority ethnic groups was promulgated by the republic government of Vietnam. In general, the two Republic Governments of Vietnam paid attention to cultural policy, but the First Republic Government’s ethnicity policy was different from the Second Republic Government’s one. The First Republic Government executed policy of assimilation whereas the Second Republic Government carried out policy respecting minority ethnics’ culture with the perspective “homogeneousness and particularity”. This policy exerted remarkable influences on the minority ethnic groups’ cultural life that left a lot of experiences in developing minority ethnic groups’ culture nowadays.