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| Young people pick the cherry blossoms at a Japanese cherry blossom festival in Hanoi (photo by VTCNews) |
The event on anti-social behaviour among young people in Hanoi attracted the participations of psychological and cultural experts and members of the city’s security forces.
Dr. Doan Huong, a lecturer from the Journalism Faculty of the Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities, said that many young people used inappropriate ways to express their love for their partners and increasingly used bad language when talking to each other.
“I came to a coffee shop and saw a school age couple. They talked so loudly everyone else had to listen to them. It was very rude. When they finished chatting and prepared to pay. The boy realised he didn’t have enough money and the girl had to pay the bill,” Dr Huong gave as an example.
“They are not mature enough, so how they can maintain their love and support each other,” she added.
According to Associate Prof. Dr. Pham Hong Tung from the Vietnam National University, Hanoi, “Throwing rubbish around, dressing in bad and revealing fashion and picking the cherry blossoms during the Japanese cherry blossom festivals in Hanoi were typically bad behaviour by a number of students.”
He also pointed out parental concern over their children accessing dubious websites, saying that they should educate children about negative aspects of the internet rather than banning them through using passwords on their computers.
According to Le Van Dao from the Propaganda and Education Board of the Hanoi Party Committee, instead of just giving general comments about their students, teachers should learn from Canadian schools.
In Canada, each school year has three semesters and parents receive a detailed assessment report from teachers on their child’s activities such as ability to work independently, their creativity, IT skills, problem-solving abilities, team work and their ability to establish feasible goals for future.
This would help students develop their inter-personal skills and personality, Dao emphasised.
