Vietnam homosexuality poll has 'startling' results
A survey conducted in Vietnam schools shows that one quarter of high school student presume that 10 percent of their friends are gay.
A survey conducted by the HCMC University of Pedagogy has found that homosexuality in schools in Ho Chi Minh City is on the rise.
Three hundred students from different junior and senior high schools across the city took part in the poll, with close to half indicating that some school friends were gay, in some cases as many as 10 percent. fear of revealing one’s true self and igniting social prejudices?
“In truth, homosexuality has never come up in any of the meetings organized by the school’s pedagogical board or capacity fostering classes I have attended,” Ms Minh said being initially
Teacher Vo Thi Ngoc Minh said “This was a lesson on ‘Love’ in the citizens education course. After the class, a boy wrote me a very long letter saying he fell in love with another boy in a higher grade. He said, ‘How can one be happy when living a lie for confused about how to respond to the student.
Hon Viet Applied Psychology Company Director Nguyen Thi Tam said the number of 13 to 17 year olds seeking sexual counselling is significantly increasing.
“In 2006 every month we provided counseling to 10 teenagers on average. But in the first eight months of this year, the number doubled.”
The study also found that 80 percent of high school students in Ho Chi Minh City do not think homosexuality is bad, and that only 2 percent of students frowned on peers upon finding out their sexuality.
by Chris Pycroft - GenerationQ.net - October 28, 2007.
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