Researching About The Construction Of The Intercultural Relations Between Vietnam And China

With the globalization,the transnational tourism has become a very common phenomenon.As a result,Vietnamese and Chinese people have frequent exchanges,there are a lot of Chinese people come to Vietnam.This study focuses on:(1)How to establish the intercultural relations between the people of two countries;(2)What factors are affecting the communicating process;(3)When the conflicts occur,what strategies do they use to resolve this intercultural communication?(4)What are the social affections of the intercultural communication between two countries on Vietnamese people?This study chooses Nha Trang City,Khanh Hoa Province,Vietnam as the researching location,and adopts the ethnographic observation and interviews to conduct the research,revealing their communication motivation and mentality through the language expression and behavior performance in the intercultural communication between the local Vietnamese and the Chinese.Based on the theory of social communication,this intercultural relationship can be divided into three categories:the business Relationship,the educational relationship and emotional relationship.The process of the intercultural communication between the people of two countries is often affected by the awareness of the cultural differences,types of relationships and memory.First of all,Chinese are regarded as strangers familiar and intimate to Vietnamese,and the language and cultural differences are the main factors that cause Vietnamese people to have anxiety and uncertainty.As social distance shrinks,anxiety and uncertainty will increase,but cannot disappear.Secondly,after establishing the intercultural relationship with the Chinese,in order to obtain economic benefits or spiritual benefits,Vietnamese people will take corresponding measures according to the type of relationship.Finally,the collective memory and individual memory of Vietnamese’s pre-cognition of China and Chinese are affected by traditional education and media construction,but the memory and emotional expression of people of different ages show significant differences.Vietnamese young people are more open and tolerant than middle-aged and elderly people.When Chinese people are in trouble,they can be considerate and sympathetic.The Vietnamese formed marginal collective memory through the sharing of individual memory within the group,and caused the original collective memory to change.Economic interests,lack of empathic memory and uncivilized behavior are the reasons for the intercultural conflicts among the Vietnamese and Chinese people.In the context of tourism,economic interests are very important.Many times they obscure other factors and become a decisive factor in the effectiveness of communication.When contradictions and conflicts occur,Vietnamese people will take into consideration their interests and make corresponding behavior strategies for negotiation,confrontation,and avoidance.These strategies and each other’s responses directly affect whether the intercultural relationship between the people of two countries can be maintained or terminated.This study believes that the maintenance of the relationship is actually the continuous coordination of interests between the people of two countries and the creation of a marginal culture that belongs to "us".When both sides are dissatisfied with the self-interest in them,the consciousness of "self" and "the other" will appear and become a catalyst for conflicts.This study also explores the affections of the intercultural communication on local Vietnamese and it is found that local people have dissatisfaction and prej udice towards Chinese tourists,but Chinese tourists are their main source of income.They have to provide services for these gods,which leads to inner contradictions and setbacks.At the same time,when facing the Chinese tourists,the communication strategies of the members of the Vietnamese group show differences and promote the generation of prejudice and misunderstanding among the members of the group.Therefore,the Chinese tourists are also regarded as the indirect influencing factors of the contradictions and conflicts within the Vietnamese group.In addition,this study supports the idea that frequent communication can reduce the prejudice between groups,but also finds that frequent communication can also lead to new stereotypes and prejudice among groups.However,the paradox and memory of cross-cultural communication are the main reasons for the polarization of attitudes in group communication.