Hi! I am a student in Columbus, Ohio USA studying Vietnamese culture. I am assigned to conduct an interview with a Vietnamese person living in Vietnam or the U.S.
Would you be willing to answer these questions for me?
I would greatly appreciate it!
Shannon
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Sure, people here love to answer your questions lol
are you offering to answer my questions? there are about 20 ... maybe it would be best to do them in a more discreet forum? e-mail?
Just post it here, it saves time
Ethnic Chinese that was born in Vietnam. Does that count?
as long as you can answer these 20 questions regarding Vietnamese culture ... i'll post them here soon!
thanks so much!!
thanks so much!!
you're welcome 
1. Culture and/or country of interviewee:
2. How do people greet each other –(shake hands, bow, embrace, other)?
3. As a visitor to the country, would you exchange gifts at the first meeting? What gifts are considered appropriate? If flowers, what kind? (Some have special meanings.)
4. How are children educated? At what age do they begin school? Do boys and girls generally go to separate schools, or are they separated by sex in the same school?
5. How is garbage collection dealt with?
6. What is the normal dress for men and women?
7. What foods, if any, are generally not eaten?
8. Are there gestures or movements that would not be acceptable in polite society?
9. Is it acceptable to bargain for goods at department stores or at markets?
10. How do people spend their leisure time? What kinds of leisure activities do they participate in?
11. What are normal work hours? Are most stores open on weekends? What days might they be closed?
12. What are the important holidays? Are there special observances of these holidays?
13. Where and how do people get married? What is the average marriage age? Is it acceptable not to get married? What is the attitude toward divorce?
14. What is the national language of the country? Are other languages spoken?
15. What is the principal religion(s) of the country? What are the basic beliefs or doctrines of these religions?
16. Who are (or were) the major artists and writers?
17. What kind of music is popular at this time? Who is the major pop star or movie star at the present time?
18. How does television play a role in Vietnamese culture?
19. What is the majority Vietnamese opinion of the war in Iraq?
2. How do people greet each other –(shake hands, bow, embrace, other)?
3. As a visitor to the country, would you exchange gifts at the first meeting? What gifts are considered appropriate? If flowers, what kind? (Some have special meanings.)
4. How are children educated? At what age do they begin school? Do boys and girls generally go to separate schools, or are they separated by sex in the same school?
5. How is garbage collection dealt with?
6. What is the normal dress for men and women?
7. What foods, if any, are generally not eaten?
8. Are there gestures or movements that would not be acceptable in polite society?
9. Is it acceptable to bargain for goods at department stores or at markets?
10. How do people spend their leisure time? What kinds of leisure activities do they participate in?
11. What are normal work hours? Are most stores open on weekends? What days might they be closed?
12. What are the important holidays? Are there special observances of these holidays?
13. Where and how do people get married? What is the average marriage age? Is it acceptable not to get married? What is the attitude toward divorce?
14. What is the national language of the country? Are other languages spoken?
15. What is the principal religion(s) of the country? What are the basic beliefs or doctrines of these religions?
16. Who are (or were) the major artists and writers?
17. What kind of music is popular at this time? Who is the major pop star or movie star at the present time?
18. How does television play a role in Vietnamese culture?
19. What is the majority Vietnamese opinion of the war in Iraq?
QUOTE (shann0nx @ Sep 18 2004, 01:20 PM)
1. Culture and/or country of interviewee:
2. How do people greet each other –(shake hands, bow, embrace, other)?
3. As a visitor to the country, would you exchange gifts at the first meeting? What gifts are considered appropriate? If flowers, what kind? (Some have special meanings.)
4. How are children educated? At what age do they begin school? Do boys and girls generally go to separate schools, or are they separated by sex in the same school?
5. How is garbage collection dealt with?
6. What is the normal dress for men and women?
7. What foods, if any, are generally not eaten?
8. Are there gestures or movements that would not be acceptable in polite society?
9. Is it acceptable to bargain for goods at department stores or at markets?
10. How do people spend their leisure time? What kinds of leisure activities do they participate in?
11. What are normal work hours? Are most stores open on weekends? What days might they be closed?
12. What are the important holidays? Are there special observances of these holidays?
13. Where and how do people get married? What is the average marriage age? Is it acceptable not to get married? What is the attitude toward divorce?
14. What is the national language of the country? Are other languages spoken?
15. What is the principal religion(s) of the country? What are the basic beliefs or doctrines of these religions?
16. Who are (or were) the major artists and writers?
17. What kind of music is popular at this time? Who is the major pop star or movie star at the present time?
18. How does television play a role in Vietnamese culture?
19. What is the majority Vietnamese opinion of the war in Iraq?
2. How do people greet each other –(shake hands, bow, embrace, other)?
3. As a visitor to the country, would you exchange gifts at the first meeting? What gifts are considered appropriate? If flowers, what kind? (Some have special meanings.)
4. How are children educated? At what age do they begin school? Do boys and girls generally go to separate schools, or are they separated by sex in the same school?
5. How is garbage collection dealt with?
6. What is the normal dress for men and women?
7. What foods, if any, are generally not eaten?
8. Are there gestures or movements that would not be acceptable in polite society?
9. Is it acceptable to bargain for goods at department stores or at markets?
10. How do people spend their leisure time? What kinds of leisure activities do they participate in?
11. What are normal work hours? Are most stores open on weekends? What days might they be closed?
12. What are the important holidays? Are there special observances of these holidays?
13. Where and how do people get married? What is the average marriage age? Is it acceptable not to get married? What is the attitude toward divorce?
14. What is the national language of the country? Are other languages spoken?
15. What is the principal religion(s) of the country? What are the basic beliefs or doctrines of these religions?
16. Who are (or were) the major artists and writers?
17. What kind of music is popular at this time? Who is the major pop star or movie star at the present time?
18. How does television play a role in Vietnamese culture?
19. What is the majority Vietnamese opinion of the war in Iraq?
1. Name: Hung Pham
2. People don't generally shake hand except for businuess. Children are expected to looks down when they see older people, or sometimes fold their hand too when they see older people. Hugging and kisssing are considered inapproriate outside the house.
3. People in Vietnam look products that are made from USA. Anything from USA are good but they shoudldn't be the "made in china". People give gift on occasions too.
4. Children go to kindergarden when they're 3! Girls and boys are in the same school. They have to wear uniform in middle school, and girl wear traditional clothes in High school. Education in Vietnam is very strict. According to the traditinal belief, "Tien hoc le, hau hoc van" meaning learning manner before learning literature, they usually learn manner first. There are very strict examinations in grade 5.9. 12.
5. The garbage are collected in morning or noon.
6. Normal dress: Cover you body as much as possible.
7. Foods that are generally not eaten in Vietnam are dairy food, but they're slowly entering Vietnamese culinary society
8. Opposite sex can't be touchy outside. That's all
9. YES PLEASE, it's encouraged to do so, except for malls and stuff.
10. People spend their leisure time playing chess, Vietnamese poker, and many more.
11. From monday to saturday, yes stores open on weekends. Market are closed in Vietnamese New Year (TET)
12. Important holiday: Independence day 9/2
Vietnamese New Year (Tet Nguyen dan)-first week based on lunar calendar
Vietnamese Middle Autum a.k.a Children holiday (Tet Trung Thu)- next month
Right now is "Cung co hon day"--- Spirit rememberance month..
13.Divorce is look down, and are very low percentage. Vietnamese marriage is now westernized, but they still retain a lot of tradition.
14. Vietnamese. Spoken: english, chinese, Khmer, and others.
15. Buddhism, a lot less Confucianism (way of life actually), Christianity-Catholic, few Muslims, ancestors worshipping.
16. Nguyen Du, Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Ho Xuan Huong.
17. Vietnamese pop music.. My Tam, Lam Truong, Ung Hoang PHuc.
18. For entertainment
19. People in Vietnam felt indifferent about it.
QUOTE (shann0nx @ Sep 18 2004, 01:20 PM)
1. Culture and/or country of interviewee:
2. How do people greet each other –(shake hands, bow, embrace, other)?
3. As a visitor to the country, would you exchange gifts at the first meeting? What gifts are considered appropriate? If flowers, what kind? (Some have special meanings.)
4. How are children educated? At what age do they begin school? Do boys and girls generally go to separate schools, or are they separated by sex in the same school?
5. How is garbage collection dealt with?
6. What is the normal dress for men and women?
7. What foods, if any, are generally not eaten?
8. Are there gestures or movements that would not be acceptable in polite society?
9. Is it acceptable to bargain for goods at department stores or at markets?
10. How do people spend their leisure time? What kinds of leisure activities do they participate in?
11. What are normal work hours? Are most stores open on weekends? What days might they be closed?
12. What are the important holidays? Are there special observances of these holidays?
13. Where and how do people get married? What is the average marriage age? Is it acceptable not to get married? What is the attitude toward divorce?
14. What is the national language of the country? Are other languages spoken?
15. What is the principal religion(s) of the country? What are the basic beliefs or doctrines of these religions?
16. Who are (or were) the major artists and writers?
17. What kind of music is popular at this time? Who is the major pop star or movie star at the present time?
18. How does television play a role in Vietnamese culture?
19. What is the majority Vietnamese opinion of the war in Iraq?
2. How do people greet each other –(shake hands, bow, embrace, other)?
3. As a visitor to the country, would you exchange gifts at the first meeting? What gifts are considered appropriate? If flowers, what kind? (Some have special meanings.)
4. How are children educated? At what age do they begin school? Do boys and girls generally go to separate schools, or are they separated by sex in the same school?
5. How is garbage collection dealt with?
6. What is the normal dress for men and women?
7. What foods, if any, are generally not eaten?
8. Are there gestures or movements that would not be acceptable in polite society?
9. Is it acceptable to bargain for goods at department stores or at markets?
10. How do people spend their leisure time? What kinds of leisure activities do they participate in?
11. What are normal work hours? Are most stores open on weekends? What days might they be closed?
12. What are the important holidays? Are there special observances of these holidays?
13. Where and how do people get married? What is the average marriage age? Is it acceptable not to get married? What is the attitude toward divorce?
14. What is the national language of the country? Are other languages spoken?
15. What is the principal religion(s) of the country? What are the basic beliefs or doctrines of these religions?
16. Who are (or were) the major artists and writers?
17. What kind of music is popular at this time? Who is the major pop star or movie star at the present time?
18. How does television play a role in Vietnamese culture?
19. What is the majority Vietnamese opinion of the war in Iraq?
1.Name: Ay Phuc Ho
2. People greet with smiles
- and if someone is really important they would bow and lick thier shoes. children are taught to be meek and should not talk back to adult, if so, result are being slap in the face with jack fruit skin or a blow to the face with large bamboo stick around 20CM in radius.3.a visitor to the country should give respect, they dont give a damn about flower, either pay them respect or money to buy respect.
4.children are sent to school at the age of 2, boys and girl are treated the same, if you answer question wrong in class,consequently, you will be beaten by the teacher. couple of blow to the face and stomatch are commonly when the teacher are angry ,and the mother would get slap for giving birth to such an ugly child not to mention she have to pay higher taxs. Half of her rices she harvest will be taken away.
5. garbage can be dump anywhere, along rivers, lakes, and most anywhere. Organic grabage will be rots to feed the tree,meanwhile, plastic and other recycleable waste will be collected,remake, and import it to the us for dollar.
6.normal clothes is anything that covers you up. as long as you dont show your balls,@$$, and t!t$, then it is consider normal.
7.they dont eat froozen food, everything in that country is fresh and must be eaten fast before it rots, so everyday there are fresh food. no froozen $hit.
8.if faggot was making love in public and caughed they would face the fire squad
9.yes
10. illegal c@ck fight, illegal boxing, bird hunting, fishing, farming, flirt with your neighbor's girl.
11. works all day and night nonestop if you stop working,consequently, you will die because how the hell would you be able to support yourself, be that as it may.
12.important holiday ares TET , idepedence day, and corruption day where communist offical get to go around town and beat up peoples for fun.
13.thier parent force them to get marry at age 18-19, yes you dont have to marrry if you dont want to, however, if you divored you would be crucified and stoned to death my angry mob.
14.vietnamese is the offical language and there are chineses, thai, khmer, and all kind of $hit spoken in the country.
15.budhism is the primary religion, if you believe or worship anything other then buhda you would get beat up by a gang of monks and your house would be graffiti with phase like " buhda ownz you b!tch", stangely enough.
16. who give a dam
17. music??? hmm never heard of it
18. television?...wait till we get electricity first...
19.majority dont know about the war and they dont give a damn
supernovasp, where do you live?
QUOTE (shann0nx @ Sep 18 2004, 01:20 PM)
1. Culture and/or country of interviewee:
2. How do people greet each other –(shake hands, bow, embrace, other)?
3. As a visitor to the country, would you exchange gifts at the first meeting? What gifts are considered appropriate? If flowers, what kind? (Some have special meanings.)
4. How are children educated? At what age do they begin school? Do boys and girls generally go to separate schools, or are they separated by sex in the same school?
5. How is garbage collection dealt with?
6. What is the normal dress for men and women?
7. What foods, if any, are generally not eaten?
8. Are there gestures or movements that would not be acceptable in polite society?
9. Is it acceptable to bargain for goods at department stores or at markets?
10. How do people spend their leisure time? What kinds of leisure activities do they participate in?
11. What are normal work hours? Are most stores open on weekends? What days might they be closed?
12. What are the important holidays? Are there special observances of these holidays?
13. Where and how do people get married? What is the average marriage age? Is it acceptable not to get married? What is the attitude toward divorce?
14. What is the national language of the country? Are other languages spoken?
15. What is the principal religion(s) of the country? What are the basic beliefs or doctrines of these religions?
16. Who are (or were) the major artists and writers?
17. What kind of music is popular at this time? Who is the major pop star or movie star at the present time?
18. How does television play a role in Vietnamese culture?
19. What is the majority Vietnamese opinion of the war in Iraq?
2. How do people greet each other –(shake hands, bow, embrace, other)?
3. As a visitor to the country, would you exchange gifts at the first meeting? What gifts are considered appropriate? If flowers, what kind? (Some have special meanings.)
4. How are children educated? At what age do they begin school? Do boys and girls generally go to separate schools, or are they separated by sex in the same school?
5. How is garbage collection dealt with?
6. What is the normal dress for men and women?
7. What foods, if any, are generally not eaten?
8. Are there gestures or movements that would not be acceptable in polite society?
9. Is it acceptable to bargain for goods at department stores or at markets?
10. How do people spend their leisure time? What kinds of leisure activities do they participate in?
11. What are normal work hours? Are most stores open on weekends? What days might they be closed?
12. What are the important holidays? Are there special observances of these holidays?
13. Where and how do people get married? What is the average marriage age? Is it acceptable not to get married? What is the attitude toward divorce?
14. What is the national language of the country? Are other languages spoken?
15. What is the principal religion(s) of the country? What are the basic beliefs or doctrines of these religions?
16. Who are (or were) the major artists and writers?
17. What kind of music is popular at this time? Who is the major pop star or movie star at the present time?
18. How does television play a role in Vietnamese culture?
19. What is the majority Vietnamese opinion of the war in Iraq?
1. Culture and/or country of interviewee:
Nguyen Hoang, Vietnam, living in Vietnam
2. How do people greet each other –(shake hands, bow, embrace, other)?
People don't generally shake hand except for businuess. Children are expected to looks down when they see older people, or sometimes fold their hand too when they see older people. Hugging and kisssing are OK anywhere as long as u feel comfortable to do it.
3. As a visitor to the country, would you exchange gifts at the first meeting? What gifts are considered appropriate? If flowers, what kind? (Some have special meanings.)
Don't need gift
4. How are children educated? At what age do they begin school? Do boys and girls generally go to separate schools, or are they separated by sex in the same school?
Children go to kindergarden when they're 3! Girls and boys are in the same school. They have to wear uniform in middle school, and girl wear traditional clothes in High school. Education in Vietnam is very strict. According to the traditinal belief, "Tien hoc le, hau hoc van" meaning learning manner before learning literature, they usually learn manner first. There are very strict examinations in grade 5.9. 12.
5. How is garbage collection dealt with?
The garbage are collected in morning or noon.
6. What is the normal dress for men and women?
normal clothes is anything that covers you up. as long as you dont show your balls, @$$, and t!t$, then it is consider normal.
7. What foods, if any, are generally not eaten?
eat anything... generally we don't eat western food. Food are HOT food, not cold....
Man I am too lazy to answer the rest.
19. What is the majority Vietnamese opinion of the war in Iraq?
Vietnamese tend to support Iraq.
QUOTE (shann0nx @ Sep 18 2004, 03:10 PM)
supernovasp, where do you live?
USA , i was born in Vietnam
Are you going to OSU? My sister's going there and I'm attending UC. If you are going to OSU, what's the name of this class, since I can give my sister a heads up since it sounds interesting.
1. Tran Bin
2. We bow to eachother, if in vietnam everyone has been taught manners and are taught to bow since young, if over in u.s. dont care at all, just smile or wave hand.
3. Don't need a gift. Maybe Money>?
4. They begin school around the ages of 2-5, boys and girls go same school and class, elementry and middle school they wear uniforms like japans, when in highschool girls wear ao dai, boys wear a suit.
5. Most places they have people who has to carry the trash in a large large container, they have to run it by foot to the garbage place or bike it. In large cities they have trash trucks, and thats how trash are dealt with. Vietnamese people are dirty.
6. Normal dress for women, is ao dai or current western wear... for men its something thats similar to ao dai, check out the luc van tien forum thats how it looks..or just current western wear.
7. nasty gross food?
8. yes.. slutty movements or something similar is not accepted, but is to horny bastards in vn.
9. You can bargain with the people who sell stuff outside. but if its like a supermarket or real store, then no.
10. chinese checkers/chess.. mah jong(mac chuoc), tai chi, vietnamese poker... exercise...
11. Usually the whole day... if they are in places other than hcm and hanoi..
12. TeT is the most important, thats when everything actually matters.. decoration of house buying stufff, going home with family etc...
13. first the guy family does stuff at home like pray or cung or something to their ancesters and buddha for luck and parents say stuff to the son like son youve grown up i hope you goodluck on your marriage...then the guys family gets all these presents and food and goes to the girls house to pick her up, but they stay there and say stuff too. like hope you two live up to 100 years happily ever after and burn incense and stuff for the ancestors or buddha etc.. Then they leave to a restaurant where they reserved, and they get married there and have a huge feast and get drunk and stuff with their friends..the married couples usually wear the traditional vietnamese clothes at their wedding, but then at the restaurant they change to different clothes.
14. Vietnamese is the official and most spoken language, then probably english and then chinese are the other two spoken most, then khmer and thai and stuff are spoken only or usually by the minorities who live in vn.
15. The official religion of vietnam is buddhism, it is the most popular religion in vn currently about 70 - 80 percetn of the population, the other percentage are catholic/christian/muslim/caodai etc... almost all buddhists do ancestral worship or just ancestral worship.
16. nguyen du
17. currently pop but hip hop is starting to rise.. right now my tam seems to be most popular.
18. they play a role in showing vietnamese movies drama. and chinese/korean/japanese drama.. and other stuff
19. I dont think they even care...
2. We bow to eachother, if in vietnam everyone has been taught manners and are taught to bow since young, if over in u.s. dont care at all, just smile or wave hand.
3. Don't need a gift. Maybe Money>?
4. They begin school around the ages of 2-5, boys and girls go same school and class, elementry and middle school they wear uniforms like japans, when in highschool girls wear ao dai, boys wear a suit.
5. Most places they have people who has to carry the trash in a large large container, they have to run it by foot to the garbage place or bike it. In large cities they have trash trucks, and thats how trash are dealt with. Vietnamese people are dirty.
6. Normal dress for women, is ao dai or current western wear... for men its something thats similar to ao dai, check out the luc van tien forum thats how it looks..or just current western wear.
7. nasty gross food?
8. yes.. slutty movements or something similar is not accepted, but is to horny bastards in vn.
9. You can bargain with the people who sell stuff outside. but if its like a supermarket or real store, then no.
10. chinese checkers/chess.. mah jong(mac chuoc), tai chi, vietnamese poker... exercise...
11. Usually the whole day... if they are in places other than hcm and hanoi..
12. TeT is the most important, thats when everything actually matters.. decoration of house buying stufff, going home with family etc...
13. first the guy family does stuff at home like pray or cung or something to their ancesters and buddha for luck and parents say stuff to the son like son youve grown up i hope you goodluck on your marriage...then the guys family gets all these presents and food and goes to the girls house to pick her up, but they stay there and say stuff too. like hope you two live up to 100 years happily ever after and burn incense and stuff for the ancestors or buddha etc.. Then they leave to a restaurant where they reserved, and they get married there and have a huge feast and get drunk and stuff with their friends..the married couples usually wear the traditional vietnamese clothes at their wedding, but then at the restaurant they change to different clothes.
14. Vietnamese is the official and most spoken language, then probably english and then chinese are the other two spoken most, then khmer and thai and stuff are spoken only or usually by the minorities who live in vn.
15. The official religion of vietnam is buddhism, it is the most popular religion in vn currently about 70 - 80 percetn of the population, the other percentage are catholic/christian/muslim/caodai etc... almost all buddhists do ancestral worship or just ancestral worship.
16. nguyen du
17. currently pop but hip hop is starting to rise.. right now my tam seems to be most popular.
18. they play a role in showing vietnamese movies drama. and chinese/korean/japanese drama.. and other stuff
19. I dont think they even care...
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THANKS to everyone who responded, your assistance has been great!!
Shannon
THANKS to everyone who responded, your assistance has been great!!
Shannon
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