Thanh Nien News, Viet NamCultural exchange and understanding is an important part of globalisation, a process that is continually happening whether we like it or not as a result of improvements in technology and transportation. There are two main approaches to handling cultural hybridity, the mingling of cultures. Purists would have us preserve culture, somewhat in the manner of embalming a corpse. Of course, what you end up with is a fossil in a museum that is rarely visited by anyone other than crusty old scholars. Innovators are more interested in keeping culture alive, which usually means adapting and changing the details and the meaning of culture. Neither approach is completely satisfactory, especially when it comes to the relationship between culture and tourism.
This story from Hanoi provides an example of successfully coping with the difficulties in keeping tradition alive and at the same time maintaining its integrity.
Hanoi troupe brings local culture to foreign audiences by staging Vietnamese plays in English
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