Good Morning Vietnam!

 

    One of the oldest cultures in Southeast Asia had as a link the Chinese culture. 

    Immediately after Vietnam gained its independence in the 10th century, the country developed southward, which brought with it the incorporation of several elements of culture borrowed from Champa and Khmer, but also from the old continent, after French colonial rule . 

    This is how Catholicism and the Latin alphabet spread.     Unfortunately, cultural exchanges with Western civilization were restricted with the installation of the communist regime in Vietnam and the principles taken from the Soviet Union or Cuba were adopted. 

    Ancestor veneration, respect for family values and devotion to unceasing study have never waned, and the Vietnamese are still a people with strong springs in these senses.

    The Vietnamese identify themselves religiously in three broad directions. 

    Most of them are either Taoists, Buddhists, or Confucians. However, it is not unlikely that you will also identify Vietnamese Catholics. 

    In any case, they all practice ancestor worship in a rigorous way, even worshiping them on festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Buddha's birthday, or the Lunar New Year.

    The most common thing you can see in Vietnamese is that at least three generations of the same family live under the same roof. Being very valuable, family and clan come first in the choices that the people of Vietnam make, leaving individualism on the third plane. Villages come to bear the names of the groups that live in them and which seem to be indestructible, at least in terms of the respect that their members show each other.

    In the past, parents used to marry off their children young, but today this custom has diminished, with young Vietnamese having more freedom to choose the right time to start a new family.     However, they do not abandon traditions when it comes to the wedding day and respect them exactly, as they did hundreds of years ago.

    The same cannot be said, however, about funerals, which long ago were very elaborate and lasted for two years, but which today have become simpler and shorter.

Most Asians have never heard of Romania. 

Some are vague about everything and don't know much. 

Then comes the category that exclaims: Aaa, Romania! and then... nothing...Pause. 

But you read on their faces that they don't really know where it is on the map, they're just trying to be kind.

So...!