Hữu‚ N. & Borton‚ L. Frequently asked questions about Vietnamese culture: Vietnamese Lunar New Year. Hà Nội: Thế Giới Publishers‚ 2003. 116 pp. Culture is the aspect I’m especially interested in. And I find it amazing to read a cultural book in bilingual. It helps me to improve not only my knowledge‚ but also my new English vocabularies. Recently I have been impressed greatly by “Frequently asked questions about Vietnamese culture: Vietnamese Lunar New Year” - a book written by a cultural scholar
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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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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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between Vietnamese Teenagers and American Teenagers The three differences between Vietnamese teenagers and American teenagers are freedom‚ living style‚ and education. The first difference between Vietnamese teenagers and American teenagers are freedom. For Vietnamese teenagers‚ their freedom is limited. Most of Vietnamese teenagers do not have permit to hang out with their friends at night‚ or they have to come home before 9 pm. They are not allowed to have boyfriend or girlfriend. Vietnamese teenagers
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Mistakes are often essential factors of one’s wisdom and future success. People can always gain precious life lessons from their flaws‚ which resemble the pebbles that make a stable and perfect road. In the novel Typical American written by Gish Jen‚ the protagonist‚ Ralph Chang‚ makes a mistake in which he shifts and tortures his original American dream to a false and ‘poisonous’ dream that causes his ultimate familial‚ moral and financial collapse; in other words‚ he fails to create a ‘China’ with
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countries have their own mythology. The Vietnamese are no different. When people think of Vietnamese‚ they usually think of the war. Believe it or not‚ they do have a history that goes way back. Around 333 BC‚ when the Chinese invaded the area south of the Yang-tse-kiang river‚ the Lac Viet clan migrated to the South and settled in the area where the Melanesians were living and built up their nation‚ which has become Vietnam (Introduction to Vietnam). The Vietnamese were believed to belong to a group
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1 2 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF DANANG ----------------- This thesis has been completed at the University of Danang ĐẶNG THỊ BÍCH HƯỜNG Supervisor: NGUYỄN THỊ QUỲNH HOA‚ Ph.D. AN INVESTIGATION INTO ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE IDIOMS CONTAINING WORDS DENOTING WEATHER Examiner 1: Assoc. Prof. Dr. TRẦN VĂN PHƯỚC Examiner 2: NGŨ THIỆN HÙNG‚ Ph.D. Field: THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Code: 60.22.15 This thesis will be defended at the Examination Council for the M.A. Time: 16/1/2011 Venue:
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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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I enjoyed reading chapter four and the history of fundraising‚ especially the Vietnamese Organized Giving. As many of you know‚ I am from Chile. What most people do not know is that during the cold war the USA sponsored a dictatorship in Chile. I am not trying to instigate a political discussion. While I am an American citizen and love this country‚ I do not overlook what the United States did during the seventies in South America. In Chile alone‚ there were at least 30‚000 children‚ woman‚ and men
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