Sunday, February 22, 2009

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.

3 comments:

JaSoN~ said...

Thang I like that idea a lot. To teach kids be independent but at the same time respect the elders and families. That might be something the americans want to learn.

Joyce Johnson said...

Well said, Thang. I really like how you clearly described the different thoughts and practices in the two cultures. Jason, I agree with you too. Americans could certainly learn something from the Vietnamese culture.

Boram said...

Wow! It's a good eaasy to descrive between two countries. I also think we have to teach their children to be independent and be harmony in their society.