By Denny Nguyen
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We do not know when was invented, we only know that it was an indispensable tool in the icant number of cultural values and metaphors for the balance and Vietnamese women. Many picbecome an ambassador, besides "Áo dài" or "Nón
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is the balance. suspend a load of equal mass at each end of and put the mid-point of it on the shouland its elasticity can be referred to Vietnamese’s endurance. People always carry as much as they can until is bent down. Some can even carry loads that are twice as
if the loads are not so heavy. somehow looks like the balance of justice from Western harmony in life than the equity. Besides,
and optimistically believe they can make it,
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WOMEN
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-
without
any
bits
of
help
- Vietnamese folk poem -
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of
husbands
Vietnamese women in the past were not allowed to have much time for themselves.
baskets. Vietnamese small roads and alleys, was therefore indispensable for women at that was a solution, and close
that
people
would
immediately
associate
with
women.
constraints for traditional Vietnamese women. People associate with women, and even bias that only women use common stereotype that swords were for men, and were for women. , in this of women was restricted within houses and
husbands
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and
sons.
a spot in the market. We call them "
, therefore, recalls
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full of foods. You can call and buy several authentic
namese
women
on their shoulders are one of Vietnamese cultural and !
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