Society and Culture

In the modern society, population issues are always urgent issues whether in Vietnam or around the world, because population is an important role of society. Solving population issues means opening up new opportunities and directions, creating a driving force for sustainable development. In this study, we decide to research the population in Northern Vietnam. The research consists of three parts:

1. General overview

2. Population Issues: Current Situation and Challenges

3. Solution

The population is a number of people living in a geographical or certain area, studied in many fields such as demographics, population dynamics ... The North consists of 25 provinces from the North of Thanh Hoa province backwards, which is an important geographical area in Vietnam.

The North of Vietnam is the most densely populated region in the country, so there are still many problems and challenges in society. These include the perception of population work in the new situation, the quality and the labour market, population ageing, poverty...

In order to overcome and solve those problem, we would like to offer some synchronous and integrated solutions for the best effect, also the most important is adapting to population ageing and in the new situation.

Nearly half of the 34 million refugees in the world in 2020, are children. These children face many risks in their home countries and during their journey to the host country. These risks can be malnutrition, separation from family members, lack of education, child labour, child abuse and unsafe environments. All of these risks have an immense impact on Early Child Development (ECD) which is the development of children from birth to 5 years old. Refugee children are before anything, children; meaning, they also go through ECD as well as other kids do, hence it’s vital to provide them the necessities for a successful development. There are many important factors in ECD, such as healthy interaction with peers, receiving attention from guardians and experiencing occurrences that shape their physical, emotional, language and sensory skills. Many of these factors are absent in refugee camps, making their environment unsuitable for the growth and development of children. Because children are social actors and they’re not only shaped by the environment, but they also shape it, it is important to adapt camps in favor of children and their development. To tackle this problem, this study encourages responsible organizations and countries to provide refugee children a practical and useful education that can help them during their stay in the camp, safe environments for interaction and playing purposes, a well-structured living environment for easier accessibility for lost children and an eligible guardian among other refugees for children in need of it.

Worldwide, more than 26 million refugees have left their motherland due to war or persecution and have crossed an international border to achieve a better quality of life in another country. Refugee’s basic rights include the accessibility to clean water, sufficient food, hygienic facilities, and safety. Refugees often face problems such as lack of freedom of speech and movement, deprivation of education, mental and physical health problems, being unfamiliar with the host country’s language and culture, being condemned to low-income occupations, and being forcibly returned to their own country. Therefore this issue has great importance to look for new actions and solutions. The main solution of this project is encouraging the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees(UNHCR) to promote its operation towards developing livelihoods in host countries with a special focus on the following goals. First, assisting refugees to have a more stable economic situation, through ways, such as but not limited to; helping them to enter the job market. Second, concentrating on refugees’ social life, through ways such as but not limited to; arranging awareness programs for the host countries’ citizens to enhance their understanding about refugees, establishing classes for refugees’ families with the aim of removing any forms of cultural and language barriers. Third, ensuring refugees’ access to basic needs regardless of religion, gender, and race throughways, such as; providing health and educational services. This project looks forward to taking a small step in order to tackle refugees’ concerning problems by discussing more detailed solutions.

Our team’s research project explores the opportunities and challenges faced by Singapore as we navigate the complexities of living in a globalized world. As a small and open economy, Singapore has inextricable economic ties with countries in the region and the world. As we seek opportunities for economic growth, erosion of our local culture has been a burgeoning issue at hand. Through our findings, we explore in greater detail to what extent various aspects of local culture have been influenced by forces of economic globalization. Finally we present possibilities at various scales in order to achieve this seemingly elusive balance between economic growth and cultural identity.

Migrant workers in Singapore, who have been contributing to our country greatly, still face challenges such as not feeling accepted by the local public and surviving without their families, which may remind them that they are not truly at home in Singapore. However, they have adapted to these challenges by forming a support system with their friends and co-workers and by gravitating towards their respective ethnic enclaves in order to attempt to adapt better to the multicultural and multiracial environment, further enabling them to integrate within our community better. This raises the question of whether these ethnic enclaves allow migrants to feel a sense of belonging, and to what extent. Our project is thus centred on the multi-dimensional concept of sense of place where we make use of Shamai’s seven-level scale to identify factors that affect one’s sense of place, ultimately allowing us to conclude on whether migrants in the chosen ethnic enclave, Little India, feel a sense of belonging. We adopted the methods of focus group discussions and land-use studies to obtain qualitative and quantitative data on the experiences of migrants and the physical environment of Little India respectively to obtain our findings. Our research suggests that multiple aspects of Little India such as the similarity in the architecture of religious sites, shops and restaurants catering to them in cuisine, affordability, absence of language barriers and more play a critical role in helping these workers feel a deeper sense of belonging in Singapore.

This extended essay aims to understand the relationship between the hierarchical social structures of India's caste system and India’s institutionalised legal system, focusing on instances of rape, through French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu’s, theories on class. The caste system particularly affects lower-caste women, as they are at the bottom of both caste and gender hierarchies in the highly stratified and patriarchal society of India. Their bottom ranks in these intersecting hierarchies places them and their stories in greater risk of being silenced. This essay aims to provide insights into the injustice and exploitation enacted upon lower- caste women by both the social structures of the caste system and the institutionalised structural barriers posed by the Indian legal system, which has been influenced by the caste system. The essay analyses the legal system of India, including the police system and courtroom procedures and its impact on lower-caste women who had experienced sexual violence. Consequently, the essay provides a platform to humanise them by capturing their lived experiences embedded in injustices. This essay argues that discriminatory laws and legal practices perpetuates the injustices faced by the women as it institutionalises the caste system. The essay proposes that new laws and policies addressing rape motivated by caste must be enacted, alongside the enforcement of laws and policies that combat police corruption as well as the introduction of diversity, in caste and gender, amongst judges and lawyers.

There are claims that humanity is slowly progressing towards what is coined today as a “post-truth society”, where the importance of details, objectivity and truth are gradually being replaced by appeals to emotion, moral subjectivity and myth. We are deeply interested in discovering whether such a claim is the case in our society Singapore, and thus embarked on an inquiry regarding what Singaporeans today consider to be lies and what kind of lies they believe to be morally permissible. Through this investigation, we also aimed to discover any possible relationships between certain demographic measurements and moral attitudes towards lying. To do this, we crafted a total of 4 hypotheses regarding the relationship between traits like age and gender to assumed moral attitudes, testing each of them according to our data collected and with comparison to existing philosophical and psychological literature.