Khanh Hoa Province has taken effort to preserve and promote ethnic minority groups’ culture...
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| It is essential to preserve and promote ethnic minority groups’ folk songs and dances. |
Khanh Hoa Province has taken effort to preserve and promote ethnic minority groups’ culture. However, limited effectiveness has been shown as the activities are on a small scale and not closely linked to the local socio-economic development in the areas where ethnic minority people are living.
Activities designed to preserve ethnic minority groups’ culture have been held for years with well-known researchers namely Tran Vu, Tran Kim Hoang, Nguyen The Sang, Mau Quoc Tien, etc and books titled “The image of Khanh Hoa land”, “Akhat Jucar Raglai epic”, “Raglai- Vietnamese Vocabulary” and so on.
All the effort has contributed to the conservation of ethnic minority groups’ culture which is at risk of oblivion.
However, the preservation initiative is not effective because it is not closely linked to the local socio-economic development with few researchers and limited funding.
Khanh Hoa Provincial People’s Committee has just issued a plan to develop the national project to preserve and promote the culture of ethnic minority groups in Vietnam until 2020. The project is expected to be carried out in 37 wards and communes in 6 districts and towns.
Truong Dang Tuyen, Director of the Department of Culture, Sport & Tourism, Standing Deputy Chief of the project, says the initiative is designed to mobilize everyone’s involvement in the preservation of ethnic minority groups’ culture. This is the aim and stimulus for the local socio-economic growth and security.
The project is divided into two phases, with the first phase to run between now and 2015 and the second phase to take place during the 2016-2020 period. Favorable conditions will be created for the preservation and promotion of ethnic minority groups’ special cultural identities.
33 ethnic minority groups in Khanh Hoa Province have contributed to the cultural diversification of Khanh Hoa known as “The land of aloe wood”. With comprehensive measures and the local authorities’ support, ethnic minority groups’ traditional cultural values will be effectively honored and preserved.
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