Journal #20

Choose one of the following two questions, and write about it.1. What are some examples of unacceptable behavior in you culture? In American culture? Have you ever experienced an uncomfortable situation because someone from your culture or from mainstream American culture behaved in an unacceptable way?2. What aspects of your culture have been misunderstood by another culture? What do people from this other culture need to know so that they can understand your culture better?
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There are many cultures on the world; however each country has special culture. In VietNamese culture, there are some behaviors that they are traditional, so VietNamese who must follow this behavior. If the people do not allow this, they will be blamed.
First of all, the people must respect their parents, grandparents and others elder. That is the best behavior to treat the people. In fact, their parents were born by their grandparents, and then the people were born by their parents that are cycle of the life. Their parents took care of them when they were child many years until they grow up to become adult that why they must respect their parents. Also, the elder is as old as their grandparent, so they must do too. If the people do not do this behavior, that will be unacceptable in social life.
Second, they are not only to respect their parents but they also have responsibility to take care their parents when their parents are too old and then they get out of their job. All of people in VietNam have to do that for their parents. This responsibility is not reason to explain why they must do. If the people have parents in their life, they have to do. Actually, sometime their parents are very rich, so they can take care themselves. However, the people usually have to visit them.
Finally, the people must respect their teacher. There is proverb in VietNam that is “the person is teacher one day that mean this person is teacher all life”. In fact, the teacher teach them the way to treat others, the way to successful in their life, the way to study everything. Therefore, the people have to respect and listen to their teacher. Anybody does not do this responsibility, they will be blamed.
In short, VietNamese has some good behavior that it teach people how they treat others people in social life. These above are three good behaviors that they must follow. Unacceptable, the people live in social life but they do not allow these behaviors.