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trollsedits · 21 days

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Okay, so you all know I did Brozone Headcanon of a Vietnamese troll speaker and give you a little bit of its history so I’ll be extending on it a bit more just because I love to share my culture with other people I don’t think I appreciate my culture enough because I live in the state

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Okay, again I was saying that there is a tribe in the trolls village so far away that no trolls has ever heard of it not even Queen Barb or

Queen Poppy has ever heard of them.

They are known as the V-pop trolls (Vietnamese pop trolls) but there's not just pop Vietnamese trolls there's also Vietnamese music genres that the trolls lived in V-pop village with the Viet pop trolls.. let me explain…

(Also this is just my Oc headcanon I did do my fullest research on this if you still want to learn more fill free to look them up)

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You have the Vietnamese Folk Music Trolls: They are extremely diverse just like the folk music trolls they can be classified by their melodies,instrument and much more

Then you have your Ca trù trolls: They are a popular folk music which have begun with a female (troll) singer who is charmed her enemy with her voice and they are also known as hát co đầu or hát nói their music is through storytelling and it comes from Northern part of V-pop village

The Chấu Văn Trolls: They also came from the northern part of V-pop village they are also a traditional folk music which combines with both singing and dancing their music are super poetry and they are combine with variety of instruments,rhythm,pauses and tempos

Ah Floyd’s favorite The cải lượng Trolls: they are a reformed theater is a form of modern folk opera in V-pop village they are blended together with classical music and modern spoke drama and did I mention they can be emotional 🥹 and they are from the southern Vietnamese folk music

Thế Quan họ trolls: They are also Vietnamese folk style music and is characterized by antiphonal nature with alternating groups of females (Trolls) and male (Trolls) singers issuing musical challenges and responses

Then you have the almost well known genres the V-pop just like K-pop Trolls: They are a abbreviation of Vietnamese pop music which it was from the 1990’s to present day many young trolls would listen to V-pop also their songs are in Vietnamese like rap and much more…

Than you have the Nhạc do Trolls: They are “called the red music” is kinda similar to V-pop but their music began soon after the beginning of the 20th century during the French colonial period their music is kinda upbeat (at least that what I think I only listen to it once)

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So I have talked a little bit about the Vietnamese instrument so I decided to write down what instrument I think brozone + poppy & Viva would played…

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John Dory:

I could see him playing the đàn đày basically is a plucked lute with 3 strings with a trapezoid wooden body and a very long wooden neck w 10 rised frets

He could also Played the Dan Nguyen is a two-string southern guitar

Bruce:

I can see him playing both the Bamboo Flute and a Dan Ty La which is a Vietnamese traditional orchestra is a pear shaped like instrument which has twisted strings

Clay:

Although there’s plenty of Vietnamese traditional instruments I would see clay killing it at the đàn Tam thập lục it looks like a piano but no is a hammered dulcimer w 36 metal strings and it used in various Vietnamese music genres and drama as-well this instrument is similar to the Chinese version which is called a Yangqin

Floyd:

Being in his sensitive nature side he would crushed it at đàn bầu is a Vietnamese string instrument from the monochord zither is sounds so beautiful and calming it sometimes makes Floyd shed a tear of how smooth it sounds he would also play the bamboo flute

Branch:

That troll can play all sort of instrument but I personally think he would be good at playing the Zither it’s similar to the Dan bầu so any Vietnamese instrument you throw at him he can play it

Poppy:

She would be good at playing the Dan Ty la and also she could play the K’ni but she mostly loves to play the Dan Ty la b/c of how good it sounds

Viva:

She and clay would played the Dan tam thap luc together on their free time and she could also played the Dan bau and she’s learning how to play the Dan day

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V-POP trolls diets?

So many people would think we eat rice and fish and pho well there’s much more to just those stereotypes so is safe to assume their diets vary from different regions of V-pop village…

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Anyways there’s so much more I would like to talk about but is for another time anyways I hope you at least have some content of my oc headcanon I’ll probably talk about the fashion, Brozone +poppy and viva favorite Vietnamese food and the holiday they celebrate…

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an-introverted-nishinoyasimp · 9 months

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Yona wearing Áo Dài.

#akatsuki no yona #yona of the dawn #lady yona #princess yona #vietnamese culture #manga panel

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fiprobably · 9 months

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As requested by @shoot-i-messed-up, this is a full

Breakdown of Nam Phuong's Spider suit!

First things first, COLORS

I took inspirations from the bamboo, hence his alias Spider-Bambus. The bamboo has appeared in tons of Vietnamese fairy tales and legends, and is considered a symbol of Vietnamese people for traits such as strength, elegance and solidarity.

Next, BODICE AND CLOTHING INSPIRATION

Áo tấc is the traditional costume of Vietnam during the Nguyễn Dynasty, and is later transformed into áo dài due to French influences.

Up next, SLEEVES AND SHOES BREAKDOWN

The original sleeves of the áo tấc are exactly one tấc long (1 tấc ≈ 10cm). It will be inconvenient for swinging, so I switched to the bán tí sleeves.

The armor I used as reference is a light armor from the Lý Dynasty.

Onto HAT AND LOGO BREAKDOWN

The nón quai thao is a popular headwear during imperial times. It is a hammerspace, also.

Lý Dynasty was the "golden era" of Buddhism, so lotus symbolisms during the dynasty are among the most intricate.

Finally, WEAPON BREAKDOWN

This one is pretty much clear :)

Bonus fun fact: Nam Phương's name is actually the title of the last queen of Vietnam!

Aaaand that's basically it! My askbox is open, and you can send questions in if you have more!

#spider man #spider sona #spider oc #spider verse #across the spider verse #oc #vietnam #vietnamese culture #breakdown #marvel #fi probably draws #spider bambus #fi's ocs

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nananarc · 1 year

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Let's talk about that one token Vietnamese mission in Cyberpunk 2077. It's cultural appropriation.

How do you know this is cultural appropriation? Pretend the character is American. If the story still works in exactly the same way, then it's cultural appropriation: our culture never even mattered.

Culture is meant to be shared, but appropriating our culture without a sliver of understanding on what, and who we are, is just unethical. Lemme explain and it's gonna be a long post.

Mission Summary

So basically it's a cyberpsycho mission about 2 sisters who are reality show celebrities like the Kardashians and one of them turn cyberpsycho after a really horrible "prank" gone sour. One sister drugged the other, put her in a coma, besmirched her looks by giving her clownish implants, and steal her fiance after she was humiliated by that sister in the past due to a similar equally mean-spirited prank. The cyberpsycho found out and killed her sister, her husband, and a lot of people, including the crew, at their wedding. Everything is scripted except for the real deaths. The physical and mental damage done to them was also real.

Sounds kinda ok, typical American reality show and exploitation in the show business. All are good until you realize the sisters are Vietnamese.

Problem Checklist

Reality TV shows aren't that popular in Vietnam. We do have a few shows here and there, and all of them are concepts bought from America, for example, Next Top Model, Masked Singer, and The Voice. And you can see from those 3 most popular shows that they are talent shows, not family feud shows. Vietnamese people don't watch family feud reality shows, and tho we might know of the Kardashians for their scandals and makeup, we don't watch them. Generally, we don't really have that reality show culture here. This is a very American thing. Additionally, such anti-family values, hyper-individualism, and anti-tradition sentiments as of the Kardashians usually will get censored and denied by the government.

The whole story doesn't sound like anything I've ever heard in Vietnamese media or real-life stories. We have our fair share of family feuds and love drama tropes, but this is not it. We are a communal society as opposed to individualism. This means we tend to avoid direct conflicts and over-the-top gestures. Couple that with a high-context communication style, conflicts and solutions often come in the form of scheming, indirect influence, psychological warfare, long term, and done in a group. Not to say the thing in the mission never happened ever, but it's not typical of Vietnamese culture.

Sure, the characters are Vietnamese diaspora in the US so they are influenced by US culture. Even so, this is not a relatable story for the Vietnamese diaspora, there are a lot more relatable and impactful stories than this for the Vietnamese diaspora. More on that later.

"It's not typical Vietnamese means it subverts stereotypes and it's creative. This is a different view that you just don't understand because not all Vietnamese are the same!" It subverts so hard it's unrecognizable by a Vietnamese. Sure people's experiences are diverse and the Vietnamese people are diverse and there are a lot of interesting new ways to write our experiences. But this story is nothing really new, creative, or interesting? Sisters backstabbing each other and fighting over a man on a reality show for clouts and it backfires is just an American drama trope. You can see this trope on Mean Girls, the only 2 Vietnamese girls there is exactly like this, and the actresses doesn't even speak Vietnamese. Why not just write them as Americans? Because the fact that they are Vietnamese contributes nothing to the story. If anything, it feels degrading because Vietnamese people are turned into exploited laughing stock for the Americans.

Furthermore, it IS stereotypical. The name of the reality show is Saigon Sisters. It evokes the image of Saigon queens or Saigon call girls, ie. exploited sex workers in South Vietnam during the American Resistance War (aka Vietnam War as the American calls it) who serve the colonizers and the puppet government officials. Believe it or not, Vietnam is not that war-torn, colonized, underdeveloped, and humiliated state. We are a culturally rich country with thousands of years of history bravely fighting off all the superpowers in the world. We have skyscrapers, we have highways, and our cuisine is arguably one of the most diverse and delicious cuisines in the wort. So it's interesting the devs decided to go with a stereotypical name that carries a sense of misogyny and colonialism with it. I doubt this is a conscious choice to portray colonialism, considering all of my other points proving that they don't even know who we are.

They got the name wrong. There is no excuse for this. The sisters' names are Dao Hyunh and Linh Hyunh. The first names are correct, Đào (anglicized as Dao) is not a common name but it exists; Linh is a very common name. The last name Hyunh is wrong, Huỳnh (anglicized as Huynh) is the correct one.

In conclusion, if replacing the character's ethnicity with American does not affect the story in any way, this representation is incredibly bad. I really prefer they have not mention us in the first place.

What It Should Have Been?

First let's talk about the common themes in the stories of Vietnamese culture. I take inspiration from the presentation by a wonderful artist Stephani Soejono (ig @stephanisoejono) and others in Xiran Jay Zhao's compilation video essays of analysis did by South East Asian people on the movie Raya & The Last Dragon.

Strong communal aspect: clash of expectations from community to individual's dreams and passion, conflict avoidance, friendships and family relations.

Living close with nature and the philosophy of go with the flow: Unexpected things happen but adapt to the environment and situation, embracing the negative because its yin and yang to make balance.

Supernatural and Spirituality: Fated meetings, coincidences, the unchanging wheels of fates, spirits and demons, shamans and witches (who are not feared but respected), deities and saints. One of the most interesting worldbuilding aspects of Cyberpunk 2077 is the blurred line between Spirituality and Technology, so there could have been so much to explore here.

Based on the above mentioned, I can easily come up with many interesting, relatable and impactful stories

A person who acted disrespectful towards a family, religious beliefs or a Vietnamese shrine and got hexed to turn into a cyberpsycho. (You will hear stories of this everywhere in Vietnam)

Vietnamese Shaman got possessed by daemon from beyond the Wall.

Vietnamese immigrant struggling to adapt and survive in America and couldn't take the pressure anymore. (Just ask any immigrants)

Overachiever kid who are pressured by their parents to be perfect student and perfect citizen, they use implants to be more perfect and finally snaps under the pressure and become cyberpsycho (I can assure you, this actually happens a lot irl, source: I am one; also search for the case of Jennifer's Solution)

and so much more!

Conclusion

I know this is mission is quite passable and small compare to the grand scheme of things, but it can't help but pisses me off. Asian representation is already a rare thing and rarely done well in western sphere, let alone South East Asian, let alone Vietnamese representation. I'm not even gonna repeat the affect of misrepresentation and under-representation in the power dynamic between western superpowers and a small country like mine. I am not unfamiliar with how most countries especially in Europe and American sees us, they still think we are this fragile, poor, rural, colonized and war-torn country like 50 years ago. This is reflected in how we are portray in the few and far between instances in western media especially Hollywood. For a studio based in Poland, a country with a relative good relation with Vietnam and a large community of Vietnamese diaspora, this is a piss poor portrayal of our people.

The Vietnamese market is probably too small for you to even care, and it's true that most Vietnamese player doesn't even give a shit. But it does not mean no Vietnamese care, at least I know I do. And this is not a new phenomenon, this has been happening for forever in western media, and someone's gotta tell people about it.

Let's end this extremely long and angry post with some beautiful images of my country. On tumblr, you can find a lot more of beautiful images like these curated by the blog @lotusinjadewell. And I'll be creating a personal blog to post my photos I took of my home country soon so there!

If you wanna support Vietnam, please consider give a shout out and/or donate to these organizations:

ISEE: Minorities and LGTQ+

CSDS: Youth Empowerment and Sustainability

ICS: LGBTQ+

SOS Children's Villages Vietnam: Orphange, Underprivileged Children

CHANGE: Environment and Sustainablity

GreenID: Environment and Sustainablity

Hà Nội – Một thành phố trong nhiếp ảnh Exhibition in Hà Nội

Photographer: Alexandre Garel, Khổng Việt Bách, Diego Cortizas, Lolo Zazar, Peter Steinhauer, Sébastien Laval, Veronika Radulovic, Ben Reich, Bert Danckaert, Nguyễn Hữu Bảo, Nguyễn Thế Sơn, Lê Thịnh, Lê Xuân Phong, Nguyễn Duy Kiên, Maika Elan, Phạm Tuấn Ngọc

Curator: Nguyễn Thế Sơn

Lotte Tower in Hanoi | Skyscrapers in Hanoi

Photographer Unknown

Ta Caphe Shop in Hà Nội

Photo by WhereInHanoi

Mid Autumn festival themed photoshoot

Photographer: Lê Giangg.

H'Mông Fabric Seller

Photographer: Michel Arnault

High Fashion designs inspired by Mông people's traditional clothes

Left: Dạ Minh Nguyệt | Right: Nguyễn Đặng Khánh Linh

Modern side of Saigon

Photographer unknown

#cyberpunk 2077 #cyberpunk 2077 meta #vietnam #vietnamese #vietnamese culture

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antiheroist · 10 months

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“Phiêu”

An art and floral arrangement exhibition that portrays the experiences and culture exclusive to Vietnam.

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deadwolfonfire · 2 years

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Medicine seller in your area

#digital art #mononoke #fan art #Vietnamese culture #kusuriuri

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midautumngame · 1 year

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This lil sword and shield boi is based off of Vietnamese water puppets. These WIP enemies can move, attack with their sword and reflect your attacks with their shields!

Wishlist on Steam! | Website | Kickstarter (Funded)

#vietnamese #vietnamese culture #asian culture #asian diaspora #pixel art #pixel animation #pixel graphics #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #game dev #indie dev #indiedev #indie game #indie games #video games #midautumn #midautumn game #enemies

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evilcatv · 1 year

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Vietnamese Wedding Attire

#vietnam #culture #tradition #wedding #vietnamese culture #vietphuc #việt phục #writing with color #poc #littlefor #it's a little over two grands for this fit #rightfully so

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asian-folk-wardrobe · 2 years

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beehunni62 · 1 year

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Hulos: Elevating the Áo Dài to Haute Couture

This áo dài collection took inspiration from the ancient royal robes that were in vogue during the Nguyen Dynasty. It combines three dimensional hand embroideries of phoenixes and dragons – Asian symbols of royalty – with intricate cast bronze decorations. The collection represents an idealized image of Asian beauty – luxurious and seductive while evoking mystery and intrigue. These unique designs were specially created to promote and preserve Vietnam’s cultural heritage.

Oi Vietnam, 2014

“Fashion is the bridge to bring Vietnamese, our beloved country’s culture to the world. Many designers approach fashion by looking forward to its magnificence, but then lost themselves in its frivolously and flashy. In our opinion, fashion is not only talent itself, but also a demonstration of many skills and understanding in many aspects. A designer is also a psychologist, a politician, an architect, an economist, a scientist, and many other jobs. To exist in this industry, a designer need resolves and experience…We follow the Buddhist teaching. The philosophy of Buddhist teaches us many lessons to help us grow up. My principles of living are sharing, live slowly, think differently and love more. If I am a super hero, I want a power which can transform other everybody to be good because a fashion designer can only create external beauty, but cannot perfect people soul”

David Leung, 2017

Vietnamese designer duo, Huỳnh Hải Long and Đặng Thế Huy, along with their brand, Hulos, breathe new life into áo dài by re-envisioning and presenting it to a new generation of Vietnamese and international audiences.

Áo dài’s simple yet elegant form allows it to adapt easily to changing environments and generational tastes.

Sources:

Hulos website: www.hulosprive.com

Hulos Instagram: hulosbythehuyhailong

#vietnam #ao dai #nguyen dynasty #vietnamese #vietnamese culture #asia #asian fashion #Huỳnh Hải Long #Đặng Thế Huy #hulos prive #viet phuc #越服 #viet phuc movement

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thuan-thien · 3 months

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Ông Trời, Lord of the Sky

翁𡗶 - Ông Trời is one of the most important deities, if not the most important, in Vietnamese folk religion. He dictates the condition of the skies, rain, thunder, lightning, storms, earthquakes, and windstorms. Some Vietnamese people believe he created the world, humanity, and all living creatures.

本處 - In many areas of Vietnam, Ông Trời is conflated with the Jade Emperor, a Chinese god. However, Ông Trời is a native Vietnamese heavenly deity who took on many attributes of the Jade Emperor upon contact with the Chinese, such as his appearance (he previously was not depicted as a human man) and royal status, ruler of heaven, but the two are separate deities.

盤天 - Many Vietnamese families, especially in the southern region, worship Ông Trời with an altar called a Bàn Thiên, or “Heavenly Altar”. These altars are always outside under the sky, typically right outside the front door; they are usually simple, consisting of a flat platform raised, off the earth, onto a pillar. They all have one censer to stick incense into, at minimum, and they’ll often have 2 vases for flowers, and a plate for fresh fruit or sweets. My dì tư/4th aunt has small statuettes of birds on her Bàn Thiên. A Bàn Thiên can also be more elaborate, looking more like a spirit house, convenient to prevent your offerings from getting soggy, or your incense from extinguishing.

婆𡗶 - My family has heard some people say that Ông Trời has a wife called Bà Trời, while some say his wife is the goddess Tây Vương Mẫu (西王母), a Chinese deity. My family only worships him, though.

𣡤香 - To make your prayers ascend to heaven faster, place nine sticks of incense into the censer of your Bàn Thiên in this order. Only do this when you feel it’s necessary, and will make a good use of Ông Trời’s attention. If you don’t have a Bàn Thiên, you can stick the incense sticks directly into the ground as well.

盤地 - Ông Trời’s altar is often accompanied by another altar on the ground directly in front of the Bàn Thiên, called the Bàn Địa, or “Earthly Altar”, dedicated to another native Vietnamese deity.

𡗶𠲖 - Don’t say “Trời ơi!” (Oh my God) too much, because if you call for Ông Trời’s attention too often, he’ll eventually start to ignore your pleas.

級偪 - Vietnamese is a very hierarchical language, and it requires that you respect the godly order. When listing out names, you are supposed to list out the names of the most superior beings first. With regards to Ông Trời, he is the highest, even in comparison to the Buddha. When giving immense thanks, Vietnamese people can say “Cảm ơn Trời, cảm ơn Phật.” Or, “Thank you Lord of Heaven, thank you Buddha.”

炪香 - Ông Trời is the only deity to outrank the Buddha, thus, when one is lighting the daily incense for all of one’s altars, you light incense for the altars outside under the sky first. You light incense at the Bàn Thiên first, then the Bàn Địa, then you go inside and light incense for the Buddha and the deities below him.

#vietnamese #vietnam #vietnamese culture

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