Episode 8: Buon Me Thuot 2 - Stilt House Culture and Urbanization

I went to three villages, or Buôn as they are called in Vietnamese in Buon Me Thuot: Buôn Buôr, Buôn Kuốp, and Buôn Akô Đhông. Three of these villages are all within the same central Vietnamese area and are all in Dak Lak province. However, three of these villages are all fundamentally different. Over this episode, I summed up what I found out about all three villages and I noticed how they are all different as well as a trend that links them up.  The comparisons of these three villages reveal a lot about aspects of the Vietnamese narrative: cultural retention and urbanization. Can urbanization and cultural retention co-exist? Or does urbanization ultimately threaten cultural retention by rendering an aspect of a culture obsolete? Answering this question will undoubtedly reveal a lot about the nature of change in the Vietnamese Narrative.