Week 9
The fluid exchange of music, technology, and
information astounds me because this increased transnationalism changes the
relationship of Vietnamese and oversea Vietnamese. This begs the question of
the acceptability of increase partnership in the future. Will it decrease the
automatic hatred of each other? However, this inquiry is only targeted to the
regular people and not towards the elites. I find elites to have a stronger
investment to ideology for manipulation purposes; the ordinary person is much
more concern about practicality. But will transnationalism, such as the IT
sector, relax governmental policies as they witness development, or will they
have an even stronger sense of containment?
I especially found the chapter on music extremely
interesting as I observe the same phenomenon in the Hmong community. Singers there
tour all over the states and some do marry Hmong Americans and reside
permanently here. In addition, Hmong companies here would travel there to
record albums and sell it globally. They also film a lot of music videos in
Southeast Asia because it’s cheaper and for its scenery. The music chapter
really connected many similar occurrences of transnationalism.
A video of a Hmong star from Southeast Asia
performing in France.
No comments:
Post a Comment