Open AccessFloating-market Vietnamese merchants' activities in the Mekong Delta: Vietnamese people's socio-cultural features
Author(s) -
Le Van Ngo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
khoa học công nghệ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1859-0128
DOI - 10.32508/stdj.v18i1.1042
Subject(s) - vietnamese , ethnic group , adaptability , context (archaeology) , mekong delta , order (exchange) , delta , cultural exchange , geography , natural (archaeology) , economic growth , political science , sociology , business , ethnology , economics , engineering , anthropology , management , philosophy , linguistics , water resource management , environmental science , archaeology , finance , aerospace engineering
The economic activities of a community depend on natural conditions of the place where the community lives. On the other hand, the economic activities of a community are particular expressions of the community’s cultural features since economic activities clearly demonstrate the adaptability of a community in its specific natural environment. The Mekong Delta is the largest delta in our country where many ethnic groups reside. The Mekong Delta communities’ economic activities reflect a common characteristic of all the communities at the place in the process of cultural exchange; on the other hand, they represent each community’s own culture associated with a particular ethnic group. Our paper presents living-earning activities of floating-market Vietnamese merchants in order to clarify socio-cultural features in the specific context of the South.