American manners

The difference between two cultures – American and Vietnamese – creates many different thought from both sides. Therefore, there are some manners of Americans I do not like. However, it seems the balance of like is much greater than the dislike’s balance.
I like American at the point they never give up their dreams even they have many strong obstructions and they have to spend a long time to achieve their dreams. At this point, the president Obama is the excellent example. He had a dream to be the president when he was young. He got many strong obstructions, especially the racial discrimination. Nevertheless, he did not give up his dream to be the US president. Therefore, Americans now have the first president, who is African-American.
However, I dislike them at the point they are very noisy. If you attended to a group meeting or came to a restaurant, you would see how noisy it is. Since everyone wants to talk, everyone the other hears what they say, everyone wants to show their moods, they try to talk. But not only talk, they talk very loud; like yelling, they use body-language, they laugh without consciousness. For that reason, it seems they are fighting.
By the way, each person has a different idea; each culture has a different character. Therefore, you and I should not magistrate that it is right or wrong; it should depend on their culture and their opinion.

Dressup in costumes (^_^)

Last summer, my classmates and I celebrated a party in which everyone had to dress up in costume and had to wear a mask. That party looked like a costume ball. For me, I chose to become a Dracula in legend. I bought the false carmine tooth, a black robe, the black shoes, black costume, and a black mask. I went to the party and I saw that my friends camouflaged to become many characters in many movies and stories. I could not recognize them, and I thought they could not either. In my opinion, all of us were really difference and had a good looking with many colorful costumes. Suddenly, the light was off. No one knew what was happening. Suddenly, the light was on. We could see there were many foods on a long table. It looked like in a movie. Music was turned on, we dance together but we did not speak any words, so we could played a game at the rest. After enjoying the music and dancing, we have to guess whom we were dancing with by naming them on a paper. Unfortunately, I could not guess exactly all of my friends, so I could not get the only gift of the party. It was hard for everyone to guess because no word was spoken, we just made our guess by looking at the body and by luck. There was only one could recognize all people. He won the only gift of the party. Even though I could not get the gift, I got the most important thing from the party; it was fun and happiness from friends. I wish we can have another party in the future.

Easter Day

Most of Americans are Christianities; they are for sure following Jesus and revering him. According to the Bible, Jesus was resurrected from the dead three days after his crucifixion, so the Christians celebrate to congratulate the Jesus’ reborn. In America, many families will attend Sunday Mass or services in the morning and then participate in a feast or party in the afternoon. They will also give the Easter eggs as the presents. In the morning of the Eater Day, the Americans usually go to the church and pray Jesus. After that, they are going back home and the families are gathering to have a meal in the afternoon. However, since family’s members are now living far away from their origins, they may have the meal together at noon, so people can leave early. After having meal, they will give their presents: the Easter eggs, which are symbols for the reborn. The Easter eggs are made from chocolates or many different materials; such as plastics, the real chickens’ shell, etc. with many different colors. During the Easter Day, the Americans usually talk about Jesus and the Christianity. They also talk about their normal lives and share their stories with their family’s members. Therefore, I think the significance that Easter has for most Americans is religious and family because they are praying and going to the church at the Easter day, and they are gathering to have a meal, share their individual with each other. Consequently, I think this is the important holiday for America, who are Christianities or un-Christianities because they can be together, have a pause-time during their hard works, their hard lives, especially, they can have fun with their children.

September 11, 2001, had a profound effect on the people of the United States.

After the September 11, 2001 event, the Americans have changed many of their habits; such as reacting very strong to the unfavorable things in their opinions, having much discrimination against to foreign people, especially the Arabian, and being afraid of everything because they think there is no safety area for them to live, even in their own country.

First off, if they think something effect as the negative way to them, they will have a very strong reaction. For example, the federal government now is reacting very robust about the Iran’s and North Korea’ nuclear problem even thought the Iran’s and the North Korea’s government are telling many times that they just develop the nuclear for the energy, not for the nuclear weapon. On the other hand, when the Americans watch on many channels, they hear that there are many kidnaps in Arabia and most of them focus to the Western, they are afraid of the Arabian areas and they in fact do not want to travel there. That is why the federal government strengthens their military affairs ability and is being able to attack any countries, which do not follow to their idea. Consequently, they have the drastic behaviors to the highly discerning problems.

Second, the Americans have much discrimination against to foreign people, especially the Arabian. Since they are scares to be attacked from many hostile countries with many terrorists, the federal government strengthens the security checking on all foreign people, especially on the Arabian. They in fact think that most of terrorists and criminal come from Arabia and foreign, so they want to protect their citizens and do not want the September 11, 2001 happens again, so they are tricky on checking security. Therefore, they may break some of the human’s underlying right; such as the personal right. As the consequent, they invisible segregation on foreign people and the new immigrants. create much

Third, they have been afraid of everything with non-reason. Therefore, they bring guns to protect themselves, and they do not want to talk with any strange person, etc. They are in fact inclined to be at around their residential areas because they know them clearly. Therefore, it is easy for you to be fired when you are in the strange area and go to ask for the direction. As the consequent, the American does not want to travel out of their country as much as before the September 11, 2001 problem because they are scaring everything without reason.

In conclusion, the September 11, 2001 problem had a profound effect on the people of the United States so they have change many of their habits and prefer to live safety in their own country. It is hard for them to overcome the real nightmare, but they have to pass on their lives because they live for their present and for their future, not for the past.

Unequal treatment of African American in the movie "Separate but Equal"

After watching the movie “Separate but Equal”, I can observe that it was unequal treatment of African American in the past. While the “white-students” had more than 30 buses to go to school, the African American (A.A) students had no one. They -A.A- had to walk 5 miles to school in the sunny, hot, dust or rain weather. They absolutely would get sick and they might not want to go to school because going to school would be their nightmare. In addition, they just had only one “common school”, which was transformed from a church. There were many different class-group studied at the same time, in the same room, with the same teacher. They studied in a dearth material and technical basis for study. They also did not have enough teachers for each “group class”. It was unfair since there were many teachers for “white students”; they had all full material, and technical for study, they had many schools with the large campus, etc. The A-A people had to pay tax as equal as the “while people” or even more than that, they could not enjoy the equal treatment in their lives. Therefore, they asked for their right by signing on the petition and sending it to the federal.

Vietnam - US, the difference in teaching children ^^

The distance between two countries, The U.S and Vietnam, is a half of the Earth, so there are many different things between two cultures. One of them is raising their children and teach them know how to live in the society. Even though there are many similar ideas in this philosophy, it is many big different distance between two cultures on this philosophy.
First off, in The U.S cultures, everyone must be independent acting with their own ideas when they live independently. They cannot live depending on their parents; such as asking for money to shop, to buy some candies, or to have a meal, etc. People must be independent. No one can live with their children forever and offer them whatever they want. That is why we, Vietnamese people, have the same idea with the American. However, Vietnamese teach their children respect their parents and the older people, we teach them know to show their love to their parents and older people. For example, I think it is normal in the U.S that the older people will be let live in the nursing house and their children will visit them when they are free. However, Vietnamese people usually take care of their older people because they are taught that when they are young, they live depend on their parents and their grandparents, so when their parents are old, they have to take care of their parents. Even though Vietnamese have to work hard and have many social relationships, they still want their parents live with them and they will take care of them. Unless, the other people will think that they are undutiful and people may think little of them; even hate them. In conclusion, even though Vietnamese teach their children to be independence in living, they are different with the American because they also teach their children respect what they have done for their children.
Second, the American are taught to be confident in deciding and settling whatever they want to change; if they do not like anything, they just do whatever they can to change it, they do not mind what other people think about. However, in Vietnamese’s culture, we mind about that. The parents do not teach their children to be confident to work and tell their own ideas, but also teach them respect and pay attention to their neighbor or people around them. The parents teach us think carefully before we decide to do anything because our actions may cause many negative effects to people around us. Therefore, we have to think to make the negative effects to be minimum. For that reason, the easy way to do it is to ask their older people to get their advisement because the older people have much more experience in the life, so they are helpful. In conclusion, Vietnamese do not only teach their children to be confident, but also tech them pay attention to people around them.
In conclusion, Vietnamese do not teach their children to be confidence and independence like what the American do, but also teach them to respect their older people and to pay attention to people around them. For that reason, it causes many different ideas about human rights between Vietnamese and American.

States should provide free services to illegal aliens and their children

All peoples in the world are born equal, enjoy the right to happiness and freedom. In these rights, it includes enjoying the free services; such as education and health care, from the government even though they are illegal aliens and their children. Are illegal aliens and their children human? Yes, they are. Therefore, they have the human’s right: live, freedom, and happiness. If they do not receive the free services from the government, how will be their lives and their children’s lives? They are absolutely poor, so the adult people do not have enough money to buy milk, food for their children and they in fact cannot let their children go to school. In the modern life, they cannot be “normal” like everyone. They will be stunted, malnutrition, and may even have brain insufficiency because of no money and no free services. Is it fair while someone have the luxurious lives, while some people, like the illegal aliens and their children, have to live at under normal-life and cannot receive the free service? No, it is unfair. If they are human, they have to be behaved equally: to have the right to receive all the free services. In conclusion, the government should provide free services to illegal aliens and their children.

What kinds of business should we do during the Valentine day ?

If you are asked that question, I bet that you all answer "chocolate and roses". Yes, if I asked this question about 20 years ago, your answer might be right. However, nowadays, your answer is not correct. According to my research ^^, people JUST give present to their love; not also their parents or relatives, etc. They just care their love and want to their partner's sympathy. Therefore, they just spend a lot of money for their plans with partner: a romantic party, which just has two of them in a expensive restaurant, many wonderful dishes, a really old horn, etc. Then, they in fact make love. It's a absolutely action of human: eat-wine-and have sex. Since it's the Valentine day, people will be "better" in "..." (I think you know ^^) So... they will do it many many times and... in fact they have to use many CONDOMS with many flavors to increase their "pleasures" or "comforts".

Therefore, if you want to do business during the Valentine day, I advice that you should sell many condoms with many different flavors ^^

Good luck in your business.

Dr. of crazy idea in business.

What's good and what's bad about majority rule ?

We have the fact that nothing is perfect. The majority rule is also not perfect: it has both good and bad effect. The Majority is the decision rule that people choose one of some options, which has more than haft of the votes. For example, if we have one hundred people in a meeting, and we have to decide that which partners A, B, or C we will collaborate for long time, we then vote and there are eighty people (80% people) decide to choose A, so we have to choose A. For the good side, the majority rule expresses the ideas of majority group, which has almost people agree. People then will follow the majority group. Therefore, they realize for the most common ideas. In fact, they will decrease the harm for most of people. With the same sample above, there may be twenty percents (20%) people feel not good or they do not have well instead of eighty percents of people. Is it good or not? I think most of us will say, “Yes, we should follow to eighty percents because… they are the majority group…and we should be for sake of the most common people…etc.” However, have you asked that if the twenty people there really do not agree, they will react very strong? What will be happening? Absolutely they may have a war or at least have an argument with the most common group. It is the negative way of the majority rule. I agree that we should depart of the most common group; however, we cannot deny all of the interest of minority people. If we do so, the minority people will feel hurt and they will react strongly. Therefore, in my opinion, we should harmonize all good of two groups for more interests in the future.