VIETNAMESE VS. AMERICAN Vietnam’s admission to the World Trade Organization together with the normalization of trade relations between the U.S. and Vietnam has opened great opportunities for many American companies to do business in this rapidly growing country. However‚ cultural barriers can adversely affect business transactions right from the negotiation process. American companies seeking a successful cross-cultural negotiation in Vietnam should understand‚ tolerate‚ and adapt to the differences
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Talk Around Town (23-10-2005) A troubling mix of English and Vietnamese |[pic] | | | by Vu Thu Ha I accidentally heard the following conversation between two young girls in a coffee shop one day: "Sorry‚ toi qua tao busy qua‚ khong help may duoc" (Sorry‚ I was too busy to help you last night?) "The bay gio thi the nao?" (How about now?) "Ui gioi‚ easy work!" (Well‚ no problem) At the time I thought that an English-speaking
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The following voice project will discuss second generation Vietnamese Americans struggling with cultural expectations. In this assignment‚ I will discuss an advocacy initiative for this specific population. Immigration status is one of the many issues this specific population may face. It continues to be a politically divisive issue. Lack of American citizenship brings other issues like access to health care. Many individuals are against illegal immigrants having access to health care as well other
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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 Viet family includes grandparents‚ parents and children living together under
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Vietnamese New Year Traditions New Year in Vietnam is not only a holiday but also the biggest event of the year. It is tradition of thousand years of history. In Vietnamese‚ New Year means Nam Moi or Tet Nguyen Dan‚ which also means “the very first morning”. Nevertheless‚ people commonly call it Tet as its short form. As traditionally‚ the holiday lasts three days‚ starting from January first on lunar calendar. However‚ the spirit of Tet starts on December twenty third‚ seven days before Tet’s
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exception. But after what I had been experienced I thought that Vietnamese educational system is still weak. It’s weak because of so many problems that exist on such as bad teaching quality; lecture does not go together with practice and high tuition’s fee. Furthermore‚ the training is not linked with students’ majors. And those problems will ruin the Vietnamese educational system if they don’t change. Nowadays‚ so many Vietnamese students complain that what they had learned are just lessons. Most
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every Mid-Autumn Festival‚ Vietnamese kids use beautiful lanterns to light up the road for “the moon man” to come back to the Earth. Four things that are essential preparation for the occasion are fruits‚ moon cakes‚ lanterns‚ and lion dances. In Mid-Autumn Festival‚ people buy seasonal fruits such as grape fruits‚ logan fruits‚ bananas‚ apples. Parents usually create funny things by those kinds of fruit. For example‚ they use grapes to make beautiful dogs. Vietnamese moon cakes are influenced by
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a friend named Angela who stuck by my side like gum. We went everywhere with each other and we always helped each other in times of need. One day‚ Angela called me saying her youth group needed an extra dancer for their performance at the annual Vietnamese new year celebration. Of course‚ I told her to sign me up right away. The first day of dance practice was strange. Growing up in a Buddhist environment‚ I had never been to a catholic church before. The minute I walked in the room‚ everyone stared
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Using violence as a tool for economic growth has been a strategy in many societies over the years to gain power or better their country because they truly thought it was the right thing for them. Whether it was right or wrong is for us to judge individually. Two particular societies that used violence as an economic tool‚ was the Spanish conquistadors when they conquered the Aztec Empire. As well as The United States after World War II resulting in economic growth in many ways. Beginning in 1519
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Vietnamese Immigration Families Nowadays‚ according to Chris Brown‚ Codi L. Schale and Johana E. Nilsion which are authors of article “Vietnamese Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Mental Health”‚ the Vietnamese immigrants’ population to 2006 is 1.1 million people. Therefore they become the fifth largest immigrant community in the United States of America (66). The immigration officially began after the fall in Vietnam War in 1975; the South of Vietnam was taken by the North Communism’s government. A
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