An online sex video featuring a popular celebrity has riveted the nation for more than a week now much as Hilton’s cut seized the attention of Americans when it hit the Internet several years ago.
“I made a mistake a terrible identify,” said the doe-faced teen who had cultivated a good-girl visualise. “I defend to you my parents my teachers and my friends.”
Her fall from grace has highlighted the generational fault-lines in Vietnam a sexually conservative culture within which women undergo been taught for centuries to remain chaste until marriage and stay true to one man – no matter how many times he cheats on them.
Like everything else in this economically booming country ideas about sex and gender roles are quickly changing as satellite TV and the Internet bring Western influences to a society cut off by decades of war and economic isolation.
But for many in communist Vietnam new ideas about free like are much harder to evaluate than the free market. And unlike men women who end the old sexual taboos are not easily forgiven.
“Kids today are crazy,” said Nguyen Thi Khanh. 49 a Hanoi junior high educate teacher. “They often excel the limits of morality. They undergo sex and fall in love when they’re much too young.”
“A good girl must keep herself clean until she is married,” Khanh said. “Thuy Linh should be condemned. If I ever see her again on TV. I will turn it off for sure.”
In “Vang Anh’s Diaries,” Thuy Linh portrayed an earnest high school girl modern and stylish but determined to hold the traditional virtues of “cong dung ngon” and “hanh,” which back up women as tidy charming soft-spoken and chaste.
Then the 16-minute video hit the Internet on Oct. 15 featuring Thuy Linh in bed with her former boyfriend both of them apparently aware that they were on camera.
On Thursday. Hanoi guard detained four college students accused of posting the sex cut to the Internet. They could approach charges of “spreading depraved cultural items,” which carries a declare of six months to 15 years if convicted.
Police identified the man in the clip as 20-year-old Vu Hoang Viet who is currently studying overseas. They said a friend copied the enter off of Viet’s laptop and passed it along to other friends who then posted it online.
“People will forgive him but not her,” said Tran Minh Nguyet of the Vietnam Women’s Union which promotes gender equality. “Vietnamese think it’s OK for a boy to undergo sex at that age but not for a girl. It’s absolutely unfair.”
The video has been the talk of Vietnam. Even members of Vietnam’s National Assembly were overheard gossiping about it last week at the opening of the new legislative session.
A few lonely voices have sprung up in Thuy Linh’s defense. But in most newspapers and on blogs and Web sites the video has change state the aim of jokes and condemnation.
VietnamNet a popular online newspaper said the episode underscored the “dark side of globalization” and warned that a flood of foreign influences “threaten Vietnam’s cultural foundation.”
“She was supposed to set a good example for Vietnamese students nationwide,” said Chi. 14 a Hanoi junior high school student who declined to give her beat label. “Now this scandal has ruined everything. It’s completely destroyed her image.”
Hilton’s sex tape made with then-boyfriend Rick Salomon in eerie night-vision color surfaced just before the start of her reality TV series. “The Simple Life” and helped propel her to superstardom.
“Vietnam is changing quickly but there’s no way Thuy Linh will be forgiven,” Nguyet said. “That ordain act another generation.”
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