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street vendors. But perhaps the street vendors in Hanoi that I saw were the most beautiful. They wore conical hats, carried their goods and walked very leisurely and gracefully. Everyone smiled when I took their photos. They invited me to buy an item or enjoy their food” (according to: viettimes.org.vn). He also said: “Hanoi cannot attract foreigners by high-rise buildings or giant supermarkets but by things imbued with traditional Vietnamese culture such as Hoan Kiem Lake, One Pillar Pagoda, Temple of Literature, the Old Quarter, sidewalk pho restaurants, street vendors, smiles of hospitality…”. Kevin Bowen’s comments about street vendors in Hanoi also partly reflect the general cultural features that street vendors bring to urban areas and tourist centers across the country, including Bai Sau, Vung Tau.

3.3.3. Spiritual life

Deeper behind the local “ban” policies are probably still issues related to the spiritual life of street vendors with the title “stalking customers”. The term “stalking customers” itself is a phrase with a negative connotation, so changing public perception is an extremely difficult problem. Because of the public’s and society’s views, street vendors have hundreds of thousands of worries in life. Author Nguyen Thi Anh Thu in the article “The anxiety of street vendors” (2009) listed a series of worries that street vendors have to endure in life, which are worries about food, clothing, money, health, and status when there are no relatives, when far from home, and worries about illegality when practicing their profession.

From the perspective of the disadvantaged in society, the group of street vendors who "follow customers" is a vulnerable group, the biggest damage is mental damage because as the above analysis shows, they are under pressure from many sides: the government restrains and prevents them, it seems that their appearance causes "headaches" for policy makers because they always have to find ways to

ways to eliminate these people. For the press, the authority of information, it is certain that the condemnation and defamation of those who "cling to customers" is not small, because any street vendor the author met in Bai Sau also shares the same fear of journalists, taking pictures with them has never been so difficult, Mr. Th., a noodle seller, 48 years old said: " If you love us, don't take pictures and post them in the newspaper", Ms. O. continued: "taking pictures, writing articles, oh my, only the people suffer" (female, 43 years old). The information that the press still reports, just need to go to the search bar on any social networking site, people can see it, clearly society receives that information, they shun those who "cling" to them and the livelihood of those who "cling" will become more and more difficult.

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On the government side, a civilized, polite, clean and especially peaceful tourist city is what any manager wants for their locality. However, they seem reluctant to find a reasonable solution. In reality, in Bai Sau, there is no solution for street vendors other than banning and arresting. After banning and arresting, people do not need to care where the street vendors on the beach go or where they return. When asking a manager who directly directs the campaign to "sweep" street vendors what solution is for them, she replied: " We will support as much as possible to create conditions for them to rent space in the Tourist Market ", yes, "will support as much as possible" is very humane, but from a management perspective, perhaps they do not know that Vung Tau's Tourist Market has now become a night market, people mainly sell seafood, large business capital, high competition, so with the small retail items of the majority of street vendors, do they have enough strength to struggle with that "support" from the locality? Ms. Ng, a street vendor said: "Not everyone can go to the Tourist Market to sell, customers only go there to eat seafood at night, we sell small retail items during the day, how can we have enough strength to compete there" (female, 50 years old).

But perhaps the greatest emotional damage is the feelings.

of the street vendors themselves when they “cling to customers”, “I come from the countryside, anyway people think I am not educated so even if they curse me I try to endure it, the point is to sell the goods” (female, 47 years old), someone sadly confided: “sometimes I feel sorry for myself, many children the same age as my children lie a lot, I greet them properly but they don’t even look at me” (female, 56 years old). The ultimate goal of the "customer stalker" is just to sell goods, and for that purpose, many "customer stalkers" here have to endure the pressures and dangers of the profession, they leave it to fate, they even train themselves in the "patience" skill that not everyone has to find ways to convince tourists to buy their goods, there are tourists who feel harassed, they feel bothered, they do not answer, "do not want to receive", but there are rude, grumpy customers who curse, they chase, some people have even been beaten in the middle of the night like the case of Ms. NTNM (46 years old), a street vendor at Bai Sau who was assaulted in the middle of the night on November 9, 2015, which has been widely reported in the press.

In the days after the campaign to crack down on street vendors in Bai Sau was carried out in a “thorough” manner, as a local leader said in an interview with the press, it was difficult to find the shadow of a street vendor as usual. The government did this well, the beach was calmer, more peaceful, without the noise and bustle that people could see with the naked eye. But, deep inside, the lives of those street vendors were still noisy and turbulent because they still had family responsibilities, still needed to live, needed to survive… and street vendors certainly still had to exist.

Now, instead of openly following customers as before, street vendors have gradually changed their business methods. Bicycles and baskets of goods under the name of "buying scrap" have appeared more and more, street vendors with empty carts or baskets, they just wander around like they are buying scrap, but when they meet customers, they invite them to buy goods, if the customers agree, they will take out the goods from the hidden place to sell. Indeed,

This "secret" way of selling goods further proves that the locality will not be able to completely implement the "ban" order. Street vendors need to survive so they will stick with the profession.

Chapter 3 Summary

“Stalking customers” by street vendors in Bai Sau, Vung Tau is a phenomenon that has caused a lot of controversy with different opinions from the public up to now and even when the laws to enforce it are implemented. Similar to the prevention of street vendors in some other cities across the country such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, the ban on street vendors on some streets in Vung Tau has created a strong wave of opposition from a part of the population, especially from the street vendors here.

The appearance of farmers in rural areas moving to urban areas to earn a living is the result of the renovation and economic development of the country towards industrialization and modernization of the countryside. Therefore, the culture of street vendors and their sales methods exist for the profound reasons mentioned above.

It is worth mentioning that the street vendors who “stalk customers” in Bai Sau are the weakest people in society, and therefore their protests are almost never expressed through words. They do not complain, do not complain, do not gather, do not protest… their protests are expressed through actions, through what they do. When the government bans, they are cautious, when the police arrest them, they hide, when they are chased from one place, they sell in another… all of these things are still happening every day, every hour and are even much stronger than before the ban. Street vendors consider the act of “stalking” as a way of selling, consider it a normal action among many different ways of selling, while the government thinks that they are the ones creating bad images, polluting urban civilization.

CONCLUDE

The issue of street vendors in urban areas across the country is not a new one. The appearance of street vendors has created very unique cultural features. Sometimes, it is the hidden beauty that lies deep inside and creates the soul of each urban area in Vietnam. However, the issue that people talk about a lot is the practices of street vendors and their effects on society. “stalking customers” is one of the phenomena that is mentioned a lot.

Through the results of the analysis, the thesis shows that the street vendors who practice “stalking customers” in Bai Sau, Vung Tau are disadvantaged people, they are vulnerable subjects. The reality of “stalking” customers in Bai Sau, Vung Tau is a phenomenon that reflects the lives of a part of the population, although not many, but reflects the current social reality, which is the application of policies, the injustices in society that are happening today, the uneven distribution of power… and only by looking from the perspective of disadvantaged people can we see all the inner aspects of it.

From the perspective of cultural studies, the behavior of street vendors "stalking customers" can be considered a daily cultural practice and with any practice, when it exists over time, it also has certain meanings. In this study, the author considers the phenomenon of "stalking customers" by street vendors as a "strategy of the weak", that strategy exists in a society that inherently has many injustices, the distinction between rich and poor, the division of power between the weak and the strong, and more than that, it is a war, a war for survival of the weak in today's society. Through the analysis of the lives, the feelings of the street vendors themselves, of tourists and of managers at Bai Sau, the study can affirm the cultural meanings through the practice of "stalking customers" as a survival strategy. As analyzed in the above sections, people

Street vendors who “stalk” customers are considered “bad”, however, when viewed from a cultural perspective, research also shows that street vendors are the ones who create unique features for the city, and if we prohibit them from doing what they are doing without creating suitable conditions and without reasonable solutions, it will easily lead to protests.

Obviously, after the "ban" orders were implemented in Bai Sau, the lives of those people became much more difficult, their chances of survival with street vending in Bai Sau were no longer as easy as before, but that did not mean they would give up and return to the poor countryside with a life full of challenges. They still stayed, still stuck with Bai Sau and found new ways of doing business, which was considered a "war", that war was called survival and it was very difficult to prevent or prohibit them. Even though their "stalking customers" would continue to be prevented and chased away, but with legitimate needs, they would certainly continue with those jobs, because those jobs brought to their lives and their families a more solid belief in the future, a more decent and stable life.

In lieu of a conclusion, I would like to quote the poet Nguyen Quang Thieu: “Prohibiting street vendors is a hasty and “lazy” decision” ( http://vietnamnet.vn, January 6, 2008). Indeed, if we try to find every way to ban street vendors across the country in general and street vendors “stalking customers” in Bai Sau, Vung Tau in particular, it is truly “lazy”, because behind that ban is the drifting fate of countless people, they are trying to find ways to struggle with life, they are struggling to find new ways to serve their legitimate needs – the need to survive.

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