IJLC International Journal of Languages and Culture 2788-404X SvedbergOpen ijlc-1-4-001 10.51483/IJLC.1.4.2021.1-2 Perspective Article Cultural Values in Folktales and its Representation in Real Cultural Complexity: A Personal Perspective NguyenQuang-Loc 1 * 1SP Jain School of Global Management, New South Wales 2141, Australia. E-mail: anhloc0706@gmail.com *Corresponding author: Quang-Loc Nguyen, SP Jain School of Global Management, New South Wales 2141, Australia. E-mail: anhloc0706@gmail.com 12 2021 1 4 1 2 Abstract

Studying the induced meaning of folktales is a compelling field that catches great attention from scholars and anthropologists. Cultural additivity is a concept that significantly contributes to human understanding of how folktales induce cultural lessons to social behaviors. In this paper, I attempt to comment the Cultural additivity: behavioural insights from the interaction of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in folktales in terms of its used dataset construction, equation, modern world application, and limitation

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