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Abstract |
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Are those “Vietnamese
brides”, who marry Taiwanese as a means to help their
families to get a
better-off future, “good women” or “bad women”? In
Vietnam, a girl from a traditional family
believes “sacrificing” her own interest or giving up her
own dreams in order to help her parents or
brothers is a thing that a “good daughter/sister” should
do for her family. For this kind of girls,
helping their families is their “debt of the soul.”
However, in the eyes of Vietnamese elites, these
“Vietnamese brides” are “bad women” for they pursue a
kind of marriage that is not based on “true
love” but on “economic reasons.” They see this kind of
cross-border marriage as “nation’s shame”
and should be “prohibited” by law. From the perspective
of cultural boundary, this paper argues
that the border line of “good women” in Vietnam is drawn
by upper-class Vietnamese who see
“marriage with true love” as human “pride” and is a
prior value that should be adopted by “good
women”. And this border line excludes those “good girls”
who put family’s interest before her own
interest, which means sometimes they even have to marry
someone they do not love.
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