Introduction:
Vietnam ranks number 1 in the most beer consumption countries in the South East Asia, and number 3 in the Asia (according to Tuoi Tre Newspaper, http://tuoitrenews.vn/society/17601/vn-among-countries-with-highest-alcohol-consumption-increase-rates). The consumption of alcoholic beverage is nationally widespread, especially in the countryside it takes place in every family. This habit has grown from generation to generation and caused damages in spirit and material. The negative effects on the society have increased without timely corrective measures of the gorvernment. In addition, binge drinking leads out-of- control behaviors such as fighting that sometimes causes a deadly result, raping, especially drunkard children that ignore learning which are prone to dropping out schooling, a dark vision of education in far remote regions.
Heartfelt stories frequently happen in suburban due to extreme consumption of beer that has broken heart of the public. For instance, a father who is often a main bread maker in a family in a countryside passes away because of binge drinking. A wife can't incur the financial burden of a family and her children have work at early age to earn some more money, or even go to a path of wrongdoing and end up behind a bar. It is my concern for I am working as a social worker. How can children be the future of a nation in such bleak situation. No matter such heart-breaking consequences continue, local administrations, civil social associations and the public don't pay appropriate attention to. It is a time I have to raise this regard as an exigence that needs everyone's hand on deck. How to solve this social problem effectively and efficiently. The role of women in a family plays a vital one that gives pieces of advice to their drunkard husbands to become responsible to their family, children's future in a path of education. In order to carry out this mission, women in the countryside need equipping with knowledge about negative effect of beer, wine on health, support of the local government that provides training courses for women to have such knowledge . In this project, my central research question is women in rural areas need the support of the society to retain the existence of her family. Discourse communities are husbands, wives, and children. Stakeholders include local government, social work associations, the police.
Literature review:
Extreme use of alcohol creates a negative impact on mentality. According to Prof. McMurran, a psychologist at the University of Nottingham (1), alcohol reduces our ability to think straight and narrows our focus of attention and gives us tunnel vision. When people are drunk, someone provokes them, they can't take these action into account. This can lead to violent reactions from people who would usually shrug things off. This information is helpful
to husbands who know when they cease drinking before saddened incidents may happen, and women prevent excessive drinking as well. Prof. McMurran also said alcohol causes chemical changes in the brain which can initially make a drinker feel relaxed, which can be one of the reasons he enjoys drinking. Anxiety actually protects him by telling him to avoid or escape certain situations. When he's drunk, this warning system doesn't work and this can put him in dangerous or confrontational situations. The way he processes information is affected when he's been drinking. He's more likely to misinterpret other people's behavior and misread social cues. This could be the reason why so many drunken fights start over little more than anger.
Vietnam ranks number 1 in the most beer consumption countries in the South East Asia, and number 3 in the Asia (according to Tuoi Tre Newspaper, http://tuoitrenews.vn/society/17601/vn-among-countries-with-highest-alcohol-consumption-increase-rates). The consumption of alcoholic beverage is nationally widespread, especially in the countryside it takes place in every family. This habit has grown from generation to generation and caused damages in spirit and material. The negative effects on the society have increased without timely corrective measures of the gorvernment. In addition, binge drinking leads out-of- control behaviors such as fighting that sometimes causes a deadly result, raping, especially drunkard children that ignore learning which are prone to dropping out schooling, a dark vision of education in far remote regions.
Heartfelt stories frequently happen in suburban due to extreme consumption of beer that has broken heart of the public. For instance, a father who is often a main bread maker in a family in a countryside passes away because of binge drinking. A wife can't incur the financial burden of a family and her children have work at early age to earn some more money, or even go to a path of wrongdoing and end up behind a bar. It is my concern for I am working as a social worker. How can children be the future of a nation in such bleak situation. No matter such heart-breaking consequences continue, local administrations, civil social associations and the public don't pay appropriate attention to. It is a time I have to raise this regard as an exigence that needs everyone's hand on deck. How to solve this social problem effectively and efficiently. The role of women in a family plays a vital one that gives pieces of advice to their drunkard husbands to become responsible to their family, children's future in a path of education. In order to carry out this mission, women in the countryside need equipping with knowledge about negative effect of beer, wine on health, support of the local government that provides training courses for women to have such knowledge . In this project, my central research question is women in rural areas need the support of the society to retain the existence of her family. Discourse communities are husbands, wives, and children. Stakeholders include local government, social work associations, the police.
Literature review:
Extreme use of alcohol creates a negative impact on mentality. According to Prof. McMurran, a psychologist at the University of Nottingham (1), alcohol reduces our ability to think straight and narrows our focus of attention and gives us tunnel vision. When people are drunk, someone provokes them, they can't take these action into account. This can lead to violent reactions from people who would usually shrug things off. This information is helpful
to husbands who know when they cease drinking before saddened incidents may happen, and women prevent excessive drinking as well. Prof. McMurran also said alcohol causes chemical changes in the brain which can initially make a drinker feel relaxed, which can be one of the reasons he enjoys drinking. Anxiety actually protects him by telling him to avoid or escape certain situations. When he's drunk, this warning system doesn't work and this can put him in dangerous or confrontational situations. The way he processes information is affected when he's been drinking. He's more likely to misinterpret other people's behavior and misread social cues. This could be the reason why so many drunken fights start over little more than anger.
Interview:
I realized an interview with Ms. Hoa Nguyen (2), a Deputy Director of Vietnamese Women’s Association, This association under the Government of Vietnam's management that supports women in a society by empowering them as leaders in the mechanism of government's administration and assisting their role as a wife in a family. Her responsibility is to support women in families whose husband has extremely indulged in alcoholic drinking that makes him negligent in his daily job, leading to being fired by his boss. She has worked in this field for 10 years that gives credit to interviewing her. One of fields she is interested in is supporting a role of woman in a family. particularly in the countryside where people ignore the position of a woman in the family and society. According to her, drinking is customs that generates from generation and generation which is considered as such a common practice that people forget a bad effect on health, moral behavior after drinking excessively. The negative impact is not stopped at that point, but it produces the poverty of family, ill-education of children as their fathers don't care about their study. In addition, the society has suffered unexpected consequences because of extreme use of alcohol as such quarrel, fighting, traffic accidents. She defined women's role in such a family and pointed out their mission to retain family's happiness. This project needs the participation of various organisations, bodies that their function is related to women, the order of a society such as women unions, local government, the police. These organisations have to facilitate condition to develop women's natural functions by holding training courses to provide skills to women to help their family's problems out. The police launches more severe corrective approaches.
Discussion:
Alcoholic drinking is a habit of inhabitants in the countryside to celebrate when they have harvested bumper crops, the one-month and one-year baby birth, wedding parties, house warming, anniversary of a dead person, even they drink every afternoon after working hard in the open air in rice fields. This practice leads to a binge drinking all day long which makes a drinker become careless about working in rice fields. It creates an ugly image that put influence upon children who have tendency to bloody violence. This is a frequent heart- wrenching painting of a countryside.
Discourse communities also include children in this project. Why? As mentioned above, people sit down together to drink to share joys, exchange thoughts, confidence about their personal life, experiences in work. People should have moments of rest to drink to forget difficulties, hardship, tiredness in their daily work. I think it is a good moment of relax. Drinking should be moderate, then it may be healthy for man’s body. However, people don't often know when they stop drinking. In the countryside, people normally ask their children to drink beer in front of other adults’ applause, appreciation that encourage the capacity of drinking of children. The practice frequently happens that make children addicted while their parents do not know that they themselves push their children into a path of addiction. Consequently, children neglect their study, do not concentrate their mind in learning. Now, their pleasure is to join a party with their parents to appease their craving for alcohol. As such, wives or mothers have to prevent in time children’s addiction by prohibiting children in childhood.
An extremely distressing story that attracted the attention of the public took place in a drunkard’s family. At week-end, two colleagues had a drink at the house of one of two that lasted from early in the morning till late at night. The family had parents and a 18-year old girl who was studying on the first floor. When the drink came to an end, the house owner thought it was too late and his friend was too drunk, thus he asked his friend stay to sleep on coach in the ground floor, and the owner and his wife slept on the second floor. At midnight, the friend wanted to urinate, but he did not know where the toilet was. He came up to the first floor and saw the daughter who was learning at a desk for year-end examination. In his eye, the girl was too charming as a little chubby fairy that he could control himself. He raped her. The wife was awaken by her daughter’s cry and asked her husband to come up to see what had happened. Shocking at what the husband saw along with lasting serious effect of wine on his mind, he grabbed a knife on a desk and stabbed at his friend’s heart. As a result, one went to jail while the other was dead. A sad separation of two families came from a binge drinking.
Finally, people in far remote regions are normally good readers, even some are illiterate as education is not much promoted. People think they work on rice fields to produce crops of rice to earn more without schooling. This is my concern that I have to use a few research materials as they are more academic, beyond my discourse communities' understandability. Instead, I have to use interviews with local high profile officers that are closed to their knowledge, their saying are realistic to their daily life. But I think any impasse has an end.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, the role of women in a family and a society must be supported by the participation of discourse communities and stakeholders. Stakeholders organize training courses for women to develop their skills to help out their family problems, providing premises for training courses. The police have to launch severe corrective measures to crack down traffic accidents due to excessive drinking. Discourse communities including fathers, children need to understand bad effects of extreme use of alcohol. The project will be lasted in three years and will be assessed by discourse communities, stakeholders, newspapers. Then I will adjust or update the project.
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Work cited
(1) Ms Hoa Nguyen, Deputy Director of Vietnamese Women’s Association under tInhe Government of Vietnam's management. This association supports women in a society that empowers them as leaders in the mechanism of government's administration and assists their role as a wife in a family.
(2) Professor McMurran, a psychologist at the University of Nottingham. Source: https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/alcohol-facts/health-effects-of-alcohol/mental-health/alcohol-and-aggression/