India and Vietnam Videos

India: Calcutta Calling-
-The first girl, she feels like in claremont people stare at her, she feels like she doesn't belong, she loves indian food.
-Lizzie thinks americans are materialistic, Indians play soccer too!
-the girls go to India to visit the country and are amazed at what they see. They realize that it's not like what they had thought, and that they feel just as much like outsiders there than they do at home. They ended up eating ice cream and mcdonald's while there! One girl claimed she would not be able to survive living there (and feel bad for eating in front of all the people around that have nothing to eat).


Vietnam-
-always stay connected to past- tradition, customs, etc
-his father was kept as a political prisoner
-60% of population is under 30
-very conservative, anxious about kids using the internet and finding new things
-changed market to capitalism
-as far as food, the faster the better, "but no fast food please"
-since sept.11 vietnam is safest place to travel in asia, geting more tourism
lately gov helping more, but werent in the past
-poor rice farmers
-marching soldiers reminder of it being a communist capital
-used to be a crime to speak english
-teenagers born long after war ended, don't know much about it
-water puppets- farmers, scholars, and kings- history/memory- but for foreign tourists
- the last moments of the video when he was in the water concentrated area and people in small boats was really cool! The woman that stopped by with goods in her boat to sell was interesting.
-insists vietnam is a country that insists on staying hopeful and resists change culturally


Differences:
India seemed to have a lot more poverty than Vietnam
-just had completely different ways of life
-languages
-religions
-customs


Similarities:
-lots of color, colorful walls and clothing
-a lot of poverty