Sociology 33 2 April 2014 Culture Assignment “‘The sense of the dead is that of the final‚’ says a Vietnamese proverb‚ meaning that funeral ceremonies must be solemnly organized‚” as stated in the Vietnam Tourism website. The way a funeral is organized in Vietnam is strongly influenced by Chinese; as stated in the article “Culture of Vietnam‚” ones with various rites and activities. Most funerals in Vietnam consist of three stages. In the tourism website they also state that‚ “The date and time
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Vietnamese school culture deeply values maintaining social and academic impeccability. The struggle to appear competent and successful in work life makes expressing vulnerability in personal life a taboo. In high school‚ this cultural expectation has even influenced relationships with my parents and close friends - my interactions even with my own mother have for years been formal and polite‚ even indifferent. For example‚ I have never quite felt present around the family dinner table‚ always feeling
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Year 8 Critical Review – Different Cultures… How does Jolil feel trapped between the two cultures in the short story Kiss Miss Carol by Farrukh Dhondy? In this essay I shall be discussing and looking at how Jolil feels‚ distressed between two different cultures that he is living in‚ at school and at home. Jolil feels stuck between the two cultures because his family are Muslim. Their culture is Bangladeshi and he is living in Britain in the East End of London. In ‘Kiss Miss Carol’ I think Farrukh
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Every culture has their own traditional food that they enjoy eating‚ and people from this culture bring their traditional food with them when they migrate to a different country. While some people from diverse culture might argue that their traditional food are healthy and nutritious‚ Korean people believe that food is a medicine for their health. Koreans eat soybean paste‚ soy sauce‚ chill paste which has soybean malt‚ salt‚ and chill pepper‚ and grilling beef. Koreans eat numerous of food that
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How is Vietnamese culture any different from American culture? Some people wonder how Vietnamese and Americans are different besides their race. Well‚ Vietnamese culture is different by their ways of showing affection/greeting‚ celebrating different holidays‚ clothing‚ food‚ and housing. Ways that Vietnamese and American are different are their ways of showing affection and greeting. When showing endearment in America‚ it is acceptable to touch your lady in public‚ as in holding hands or kissing
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The Vietnamese culture is a truly complex culture. In traditional interpersonal relationships‚ Vietnamese people list their family name first‚ then their middle name‚ and their first name listed last. First names are not passed down and names usually have meaning. Most names are able to be used for either gender. Each family member has a designated kinship term‚ which are used when family members address one another. The Vietnamese culture is more concerned with status‚ obtained with age and educational
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Self-awareness is an initial step to understand the variations of cultures. It could help an individual to realize the essentials of his or her own culture that are usually neglected in daily life. In this essay‚ I would like to explore the Vietnamese culture under my own reflection and express my opinions about cultural variation discussion in international environments. At first‚ there is a variety of important factors that influenced Vietnamese culture but family is the most important point. In fact‚ a typical
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Around the world there are so many different cultures. The way people eat‚ live‚ their religion‚ their practices are all completely different from each other. It’s amazing how far people are separated and all different types of people build up an economy just like everyone else and essentially make their own ethnicity. What is also amazing is that almost all countries have their own mythology. The Vietnamese are no different. When people think of Vietnamese‚ they usually think of the war. Believe
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especially affects the Vietnamese American youth community. Gangs‚ racism‚ poverty‚ and depression; others often overlook these four factors when it comes to identifying Vietnamese American youth. Vietnamese American youths are typically described as “model-minorities‚” or are often held to an extremely high standard when it comes to education‚ though it is highly unknown of what truly goes on in the lives of the youth. In fact‚ numerous gangs have risen from the Vietnamese American community due to various
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Every society and culture has different ways of interpreting and defining occurrences by the way their own culture or society functions. "A society ’s culture‚ consists of whatever it is one has to know or believe in order to operate in a manner acceptable to its members"(Geertz 242). The rituals‚ customs‚ ethics and morals that are attributed to the cultures have caused these differences. To understand how the people of one culture interpret a situation or event‚ one must evaluate the attributes
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