The State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs hosted a seminar in
Hanoi on Sept. 14 to seek ways to preserve Vietnamese culture and
language among the overseas Vietnamese community.
Representatives from relevant agencies and ministries joined delegates
of overseas Vietnamese working in the media sector in Poland , Germany
, Laos , France , the Czech Republic , Russia and the US .
Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Thanh Son, who is also Head of the
Committee, stressed that the preservation of Vietnamese cultural
identities and language is an urgent task set for the overseas
Vietnamese community and the Vietnamese-language mass media both at home
and abroad plays an important role in this regard.
Nearly 4.5 million Vietnamese people living and working abroad are
meeting difficulties in passing down their national culture and language
on younger generations due to pressure from the integration process and
inadequate access to materials and the media in Vietnamese, he said.
“Recently I had a chance to meet with many overseas
Vietnamese youths but few of them can speak their mother tongue or know
well about Vietnam ’s culture,” said the Deputy FM.
The preservation of Vietnamese culture and language needs a
coordination between domestic agencies and overseas Vietnamese
organisations as well as coordination among Vietnamese communities in
different countries, Son stressed.
Delegates at the
seminar recommended a number of solutions such as compiling textbooks
for teaching Vietnamese in different languages, promoting cultural
exchanges, especially between young overseas Vietnamese and their peers
in Vietnam, and establishing Vietnamese centres in foreign countries./.