Become a cultural ambassador of reading thanks to critical thinking and questioning

Having won prizes in the National Reading Culture Ambassador contest twice, not to mention many achievements in studying and working at school, Van Duy Phuc, a student majoring in public relations at Van Lang University, wishes to spread his passion for reading to more people.

Van Duy Phuc, a K29 student majoring in public relations at Van Lang University, has just won third prize in the national finals of the 2024 Reading Culture Ambassador Contest organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Previously, at the school-level Reading Culture Ambassador Contest, Phuc also won first prize.

Want to connect and spread reading culture

Perhaps that result continued Phuc's interesting reading "journey" because since grade 11, this young man has won the national encouragement prize of the Reading Culture Ambassador contest.

Phuc said that to participate in this year's national competition, he invested more carefully and prepared more thoroughly, from the content idea stage to the layout and design.

Duy Phuc considers reading a journey and to be effective, reading must be accompanied by discussion and debate.

"I chose test number 1. In question 1 of the test, I presented my feelings about the book "Think Equally, Live Equally" by a group of authors from the Multi-Pillar House campaign. The book is about gender equality - a highly topical issue."

In question 2, Phuc presented an initiative to develop a reading culture called "Hand-to-hand culture - Good books for friends".

As a Chinese, Phuc wants to propose the development of reading culture for his fellow countrymen, especially in areas with many difficulties. However, the reading culture ambassador does not want it to be a one-way transfer of a "procedural" nature as many people have done for a long time.

Inspired by the highland markets, Phuc wanted to build a two-way initiative where both sides are givers and receivers. "When you give books, you will also receive handmade products imbued with the cultural identity of the ethnic people: hand-embroidered scarves, specialties, embroidered bookmarks... This really creates an interesting connection and has a more widespread effect," Phuc commented.

Reading is a journey

Duy Phuc shares that reading books is a journey where he can discover, exchange and spread to the community because for Phuc, reading culture is not really big, it originates from each individual, then gradually spreads to form a reading culture.

Sharing about the reading of young people today, Phuc expressed his feelings: "If I look at myself and those around me, I feel that we are lacking in maintaining a useful activity, the activity of 'reading'. We are not very interested in reading, thinking, questioning, and criticizing through the reading journey."

The student was happy to win the prize twice and wanted to spread reading culture to more people.

From then on, Phuc tried to change by reading, sharing and discussing with friends. "At that time, I felt that reading was truly a journey. A journey of discovering, exchanging and spreading thoughts to people close to me. It could be just a poem, an argument, a concept, but it really maintained my reading and that of my friends," Phuc said.

According to Phuc, for anyone, regardless of their field, reading books contributes more or less. As a student of public relations, practicing thinking through reading books or reading any form of information will help Phuc know how to look deeper, look further, and look wider when approaching problems.

"Reading also helps me understand myself and the people around me. And this is even more important for public relations students when they have to interact with many people and many subjects," Phuc shared.

It is known that Phuc received the Van Lang Talent Scholarship with 100% tuition fee for the entire course in 2023, top 1 excellent student (GPA: 3.76/4.0 - valedictorian) of the 29th course of the 2023-2024 school year of the Faculty of Public Relations - Communication. Phuc also received the certificate of merit "Outstanding ethnic minority students, students, and youth" for the 10th time in 2023 from the Minister, Chairman of the Ethnic Committee.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/tro-thanh-dai-su-van-hoa-doc-nho-co-tu-duy-phan-bien-chat-van-185241104151246817.htm