Can you live across the world from someone and still live similar lives? It’s definitely possible, but with those similarities come differences. In American and Cambodian cultures, they differ on family communication, what they eat for breakfast and religion.
The American culture differs from the Cambodian culture, because of family communication, meals they eat for breakfast and religion. Americans mainly communicate with immediate family. They usually visit distant family members. Families consist of a mother, a father and a 2 to 3 kids on average. The gender roles are 50/50 shared , mothers and fathers can both be breadwinners and both can stay home and take care of the kids. Recently, in June 2015, same sex marriage was legalized in the …show more content…
Cambodians keep very close contact with their immediate and distant family members. Usually, multiple generations live together or near one another. Gender roles aren’t shared. For the most part, men are in charge and they make all big decisions. When a parent dies or isn’t present, then the eldest child is resumed to be in charge of the family. In, Loung Ung’s First They Killed My Father, after Pa dies Meng; the eldest son becomes the man of the family and replaces his father in a way. A Cambodian’s breakfast is different compared to an American’s breakfast. In Cambodia, they usually eat rice soup (also known as Congee), grilled pork or chicken and rice, or beef or pork noodle soup. Which is more of a lunch or dinner meal in America. For example, in First They Killed My Father, when Khmer Rouge took power Loung was constantly complaining about being hungry and wishing she could go back and appreciate the rice soup she had before. Out of desperation Loung steals some of the rationed rice soup, the government provided to her family, during the Cambodian genocide. Religion in Cambodia is not similar to America’s religion demographics. About 97% of the population are Buddhists, but there’s a small Christian population. There’s religious freedoms in Cambodia, but Buddhist tradition is spread all over the small
The American culture differs from the Cambodian culture, because of family communication, meals they eat for breakfast and religion. Americans mainly communicate with immediate family. They usually visit distant family members. Families consist of a mother, a father and a 2 to 3 kids on average. The gender roles are 50/50 shared , mothers and fathers can both be breadwinners and both can stay home and take care of the kids. Recently, in June 2015, same sex marriage was legalized in the …show more content…
Cambodians keep very close contact with their immediate and distant family members. Usually, multiple generations live together or near one another. Gender roles aren’t shared. For the most part, men are in charge and they make all big decisions. When a parent dies or isn’t present, then the eldest child is resumed to be in charge of the family. In, Loung Ung’s First They Killed My Father, after Pa dies Meng; the eldest son becomes the man of the family and replaces his father in a way. A Cambodian’s breakfast is different compared to an American’s breakfast. In Cambodia, they usually eat rice soup (also known as Congee), grilled pork or chicken and rice, or beef or pork noodle soup. Which is more of a lunch or dinner meal in America. For example, in First They Killed My Father, when Khmer Rouge took power Loung was constantly complaining about being hungry and wishing she could go back and appreciate the rice soup she had before. Out of desperation Loung steals some of the rationed rice soup, the government provided to her family, during the Cambodian genocide. Religion in Cambodia is not similar to America’s religion demographics. About 97% of the population are Buddhists, but there’s a small Christian population. There’s religious freedoms in Cambodia, but Buddhist tradition is spread all over the small