Cultural Values In Canada

Cultural values are different from country to country. We can see it through a person ‘s lifestyle, clothing, food, behaviours,.. For example, it is considered too much in VietNam so hug and kiss someone when you first meet. So the first time I met my Brazillian host sister in Los Angeles, I was a little bit shock when she did it, it is normal for her to do so. In VietNam we values respect, a student can not just walk out of the room in the middle of class or have any comments during a lecture while it is ok to do in Canada and the States because you values freedom of speech. In VietNam we must wear long jeans and shirt that cover your shoulder to school/ college, all the public and private elementary, middle and high school have uniform while here students can just wear what they feel like. VietNam …show more content…
Different people values different things and I believe this is what made human so unique. Ethnocentrism is also interested to me. As a resident of a country have a long history of being colonized, I understand how the other culture suffered through this and this is just a tool to justify the colonizing behavior. The first country tried to colonized VietNam is China. They destroys all the hegemony such as language, took control of everything and killed anyone who speak our own mother tongue. As the result, we lost our language but somehow we still won agaisnt them 1000 years later. However, after that they still attack us and successed several times. The next one is France. It is our culture to dye our teeth black in that time and it is actually help our teeth to