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Vietname's Culture

Chủ đề trong 'Anh (English Club)' bởi uhday, 07/12/2005.

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    My Dear Friends and Family,

    õ?oCulture Gapõ? is defined as the differences, both large and small between one culture and another. There is a culture gap between China and Vietnam. However, there is a wider culture gap between Vietnam and Korea, and an even wider culture gap between Vietnam and Japan. Although all these cultures enjoy some similarities because they are all Asian countries, they each have their own unique culture. Anyone who thinks all Asian cultures are alike has never spent much time enmeshed in one of these distinct countries.

    When an American first comes to Vietnam, almost invariably, the thing that strikes you is the horrendous and chaotic traffic. Now, after 2 years, it seems very normal. In America, almost everyone drives a car. Here in Vietnam, almost everyone either rides a bike or motorbike. Uncle Darrel, who has been here for 10 years, told me today that when he first came here, he could count on one hand the number of cars he saw on any given day. Now, about 3% of the population own cars here in Hanoi. What a vast difference between America. This is just one aspect of culture gap.

    However, culture gap exists in many õ?omicro-culturismsõ? as well as in the more obvious, õ?omacro-culturisms.õ? For example, when I first came I would write my phone number on the board for my students in the same fashion I would write it in America: 636-7170. I noticed the students would write it down but often looked at it somewhat puzzled. It wasnõ?Tt until one of the students asked, õ?oWhen you dial your phone number, I know how to dial the numbers, but how do you dial the little mark between the õ?o6õ? and the õ?o7õ?? Wow! It hit me why they all were puzzled over my phone number. Now, I write it like they do: 6367170õ?Ưwith no more little dash after the first 3 digits.

    This week, the lesson Iõ?Tm teaching in all my classes is about culture gap, and we are talking about it. Since only one of my students has been to America, my students really have no way to compare Vietnam to America except what they see on TV or movies, or read in magazines and books about my homeland. Iõ?Tve never experienced 2 cultures that are so vastly different than America and Vietnam. The English poet and writer, Rudyard Kipling, who was born and raised in India, wrote those famous lines, õ?oEast is east and West in west and never the twain shall meet.õ? He was writing about an unbridgeable culture gap between Asian and Western cultures.

    Of all Asian cultures, I feel Vietnam is the purest, meaning it has changed the least from where it was a hundred years ago. That can be both positive and negative, depending on your point of view. Of all Asian cultures, Japan, on the other hand, has changed the most over the last hundred years. Japan is also the most Westernized with the highest divorce rate of any Asian nation, about 18% as compared with Vietnamõ?Ts 2%. Family values are stronger in Vietnam than Japan. However, family values are vastly stronger in Japan than they are in America. Why? This is a question I ask my students.

    Most students say it is because of tra***ion and customs. What customs or tra***ions do we have in America? It takes time to build tra***ions and customs and America is just a little over 200 years old. Here in Hanoi, this city is getting ready to celebrate itõ?Ts 1,000th year birthday in 2010! Christopher Columbus was 500 years away from being born when Hanoi was founded! The Temple of Literature, Vietnamõ?Ts first university here in the capital city, is five times older than America! I contend that we have few, if any tra***ions or customs. That too, is one reason America is so open to change and innovation. Change is , in and of itself, neither all good nor all bad. Likewise, tra***ion is, in and of itself, neither all good nor all bad.

    Each time I return to America I experience õ?oreverse culture-shock.õ? I see things and am aware of things that I rarely see here in Vietnam. One small example: it is rare for Vietnamese girls to dye their hair. They like to keep their hair the way God made it. There is nothing so abnormal as an Asian girl with blond or orange hair! However, in Hong Kong, you see this abnormality frequently. Until Western ways catch on here, which in many aspects, I hope never happens, America and Vietnam will have a culture gap as great as the Grand Canyon!
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    If you want to read some more interesting articles like this, I will help you. I think they are useful and not very difficult for you to understand. My English teacher usually conveys his feelings, thoughts as well as his experience to us through his stories.
    Hope you feel satisfied with them.

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