VietNamNet Bridge – Declaring love to their girlfriends with thousands of roses, shouting their love declaration in public, or proposing by the light of hundreds of candles and kissing and cuddling right on teeming streets -pictures of such scenes can be seen on many Chinese websites. Educators worry that such behavior has been imported to Vietnam.

Just a short time later, the image of a man declaring love to his girlfriend, with a heart-shaped bouquet of 1999 roses, also caught the public’s attention.

In December 2010, aclip appeared on Internet showing a young couple who were asked to leave the bus for their inappropriate behavior.

Recently, there is much talk among Vietnamese students  about the one minute clip showing two Chinese students kissing each other passionately.

Vietnamese students seem to want to prove they are in no way inferior to their Chinese peers in the matters of love. A series of clips showing students kissing each others in classrooms and on school yards have been posted on Internet .

In the morning of April 10, 2010, students of the Journalism and Communication Academy’s dormitory witnessed their schoolmate’s romantic declaration to his girlfriend . Prior to that, students whispered in each other’s ears about another declaration of love with 1000 candles and 100 roses in Dich Vong Hau Park in Hanoi. A student of Phan Huy Chu High School in Hanoi reportedly declared his love by creating a big heart with roses’ petals.

Some say that the love declaration with 150 roses at Noi Bai airport on November 25, 2010 made by a man who came to the airport to meet his girl, resembledwhat happened in China two years ago. In the the Chinese case, the man also turned up with 150 roses, but the girl did not want to see him.

A shocking clip posted on Internet on February 11, 2011 shows a couple of students in school uniform making love at M Centre on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Hanoi.

The clips have raised big worries among parents .

Nguyen Thi Chinh, a counselor at Share Centre in Hanoi, said that imitating others’ behavior is characteristic of teenagers.  they simply want to show that they are adults now, or prove that they are “different from or more special than others”.

Dr Trinh Hoa Binh from the Institute of Sociology calls this a “deviance”. However, he believes that as a rule, all bad things will be eliminated. “Young people nowadays have the opportunity to access more information, but sometimes the information is not selective,” he explained.

Meanwhile, Pham Thinh, a reporter of VTC News, thinks that the young people who behave like that may also be simply eager to show their love. “I would support them if I can be sure of their intentions,” he said.

Dr Do Thi Thu Hang from the Journalism and Communication Academy, when asked if Internet and newspapers, which report many odd stories, are responsible for such behavior among students, said that she does not think newspapers can be harmful to students.

Reporter Pham Thinh, said that such news on one hand, always draw a lot of attention but that on the other hand, sometimes newspapers go too far in reporting them.

Van Chung