Being raised in a Vietnamese American household I was taught to value respect over everything else. This quote by Chinese philosopher Confucius helps to embody this idea‚ “Without feelings of respect‚ what is there to distinguish men from beasts.” However‚ having to experience this culture of formality firsthand as a child of two refugees‚ I discovered that not only is this completely false but that Confucius was nothing more than an old fool. The idea that a family‚ or society for that matter‚ must
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Vietnamese Education Problems In the process of development of country‚ education is always put on the priority. Nowadays‚ education in Vietnam meet a lot of problems need to be solved. Including‚ school fee‚ infrastructure and curriculum are three main problems make student’s difficulties and make quality of education not good at all. The first problem is school fee‚ which increases quickly in every year. When the development in every area does not balance‚ school fee is not a problem
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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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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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Vietnam and largely took place during the second half of the 20th century. While Korean immigration has been fairly gradual‚ Vietnamese immigration occurred primarily post-1975‚ after the fall of Saigon and the establishment of restrictive communist policies in Vietnam. Whereas many Asian immigrants came to the United States to seek better economic opportunities‚ Vietnamese immigrants came as political refugees‚ seeking asylum from harsh conditions in their homeland. The Refugee Act of 1980 helped
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For this paper I will examine Vietnamese culture according to the five essential questions all cultures must answer (according to Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck). I will then take those answers and compare then to out culture here in America. I realize that some might argue that using North American culture as a starting point is an attempt to simplify this writing‚ but I believe that any initial examination of something new is most effectively done in comparison to what one already knows. The first
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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
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prefer to copy and paste your paper into a form. Word Formation in English and Vietnamese: a Contrastive Analysis Running head: Word formation in English and Vietnamese Word formation in English and Vietnamese: a contrastive analysis Pham Thi Hong Ly HCMC University of Pedagogy Abstract: Language is a principal mean used by human beings to exchange informatio Premium3753 Words16 Pages Proverb in English and Vietnamese HA NOI OPEN UNIVERSITY FALCULTY OF ENGLISH AND MODERN LANGUAGES [pic] ASSIGNMENT
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life. Practically‚ study on the similarities and differences between the two languages and cultures English and Vietnamese has been one of my concerns. It is clear that there are many differences between the two languages of as those in grammar‚ lexicology‚ translation‚ phonetic and so on. However there still exist plenty of similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese that can be demonstrated contrastive analysis. When choosing the subject for the assignment‚ I put much attention
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Running head: COMPOUND NOUNS IN VIETNAMESE AND ENGLISH COMMERCIAL TEXTS Compound Nouns in Vietnamese and English Commercial Texts A Contrastive Analysis Abstract Learning has always been a challenging process to obtain knowledge. This is undeniably true in studying economics in a different language. The quest to understand a concept itself may present some difficulties. Yet‚ comprehending the wordings that may lead to such understanding can also be overly frustrating. Through reading some
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