Hoạt động giải trí của thanh niên nông thôn trong quan hệ với “hiện đại hóa” và “tính hiện đại”

Abstract

The rural area of Vietnam is witnessing the emergence of many modern entertainment activities that are attractive to youth, which has shown that their interests and tastes become increasingly close to urban youth. Once “modernization” is defined as a transition process that takes place in many aspects of life, it can be recognized that the current state of rural youth’s entertainment activities is not simply because the psychological characteristics of the age group that are easily attracted to “new” or “modern” things such as technological advances and new consumer culture. It is also the result and, at the same time, the reflection of issues of modernization context such as: the change of labor, working pace and environment; the change of living space in rural areas; the impact of new value orientations; the continuous inheritance and modification of past pleasures of today’s youth generation. Entertainment activities of youth, therefore, reflect the broad connotation of so-called modernity as well as the great capacity of modernization in changing people’s lives.