Little things

1. Western cultures

I am Vietnamese. Both of my mom and dad are Vietnamese, too. I have never been to any western country. I have approached western cultures through movies, music, game shows,  TV shows, etc. The most amazing thing I'm impressed that natural people and how they show affection. To me, Western people are extremely spontaneous such as when they are smiling, talking, or taking photos. Perhaps, a wide diversity of skin, eye, or hair colors making them natural in part. I strongly believe that they are truly confident. Moreover, they display affection and carrying each other very frequently, deeply, and naturally. They can say "I love you" to their mom and dad anytime possible. In Vietnam, it is very rare. We hide and seldom express our feelings which just display on special occasions.

Someday, I will live in another country and have additional views. It will be more correctly as well.

2. Traveling     

I watched a video talking about traveling in general. He showed his opinion from his trips to so many countries that I learned something interesting and valuable. Firstly, he said that "The thing that I enjoy most when I travel, I try not to stay at hotels. I tried to couch surf or Airbnb or something. Because I really want to know people who live in that area. The big hotels and stuff, you're just isolated. I try to ride public transportation, walk the streets. That's how I travel"

Secondly, he indicated what traveling has taught him?. He said "I think the most important lesson that I learn from traveling is that everywhere people are the same. They have the same problems. They usually have the same hopes, dreams, and wishes. People are much alike. There are core things that seem like almost every culture speaks to. People do want to be happy, do want to have their basic met. People want to be loved. They need to have a sense of worth and doing something worthwhile. Honestly, I just don't see that much different...." 

What do you think? You probably think these are obvious. However, I think all of them are amazing entirely. Perhaps, he pointed out stuff that I've previously thought about.

His first remark, what a great mind. If you do that, you can explore and experience other things outside fancy hotels with the best services. Also, In Vietnam when you try to eat food here, you might try both in huge restaurants and in streets or small family restaurants (banh mi, pho, bun bo, etc.). This thing was on my mind once I ate banh mi both in a street near my university and in a restaurant. Surprisingly, banh mi is in street more delicious and yummy than in the restaurant. I know that maybe the restaurant is not good and fancy enough. But through this thing, I wonder if travelers always try food in restaurants. Sometimes, it will not be delicious. I'm afraid they cannot fully enjoy Vietnamese culture. However, traveling is common nowadays, plus state-of-the-art technology like apps on a smartphone, reading reviews on websites, and so on. They are gonna have great experiences. 

Moving to his second view, I had this interest when I was studying my second language, specifically English. I watched movies, TV shows, and game shows. I saw native speakers who show some things that I completely want to speak up. They also laugh when I laugh. Moreover, English has several words that indicate the same feeling in Vietnamese. I emphasize that it just the same level of feeling. It is difficult to find exactly this word in English is that word in Vietnamese. By the way, talk about language, I don't know these words in what language present earlier or later. In the current, borrowed language is normal and common. It seems that this is a general issue in all languages over the world. I don't wanna go too deep with this because I am not a linguist. That is it. I thought that people have the same feeling. Like the men above have mentioned. People are the same. 

3. Dedication and Profit

These concepts are not clear. They cannot separate from each other. In the market, this has fair competition. Undoubtedly, It plays an important role in allowing us to have lots of choices with high quality like Nike and Adidas, Coca Cola and Pepsi, Apple and Samsung, etc.

I don't wanna say in detail about this because I am not in-depth at all. I'd like to show my personal view in making videos on YouTube. I'm fully aware that creating videos posting on YouTube have to put considerable effort and time into content as well as form. They will be received profit from advertisements and sponsorship by their dedication. I'd like to talk about content. In the first place, some Youtubers have topics very useful, interesting, and sincere. However, thereafter, topics become less informative and less essential. It is also contained many advertisements. I totally understand that topics will be limited. I would say It's not necessary to be frequently uploaded. It does need more careful preparation and usefulness. Individually, it can be suitable to this person but not to that person. This is just from my personal point of view. Maybe, in the beginning, making a video is to dedicate, later to dedicate and profit. It depends on the individual. I don't mention all YouTuber. Several YouTubers make attempt to provide lovely videos throughout all videos. Anyway, that's all.

4. Cultures      

As I've mentioned already, I am Vietnamese. Clearly, I am definitely able to understand my country's culture including language, music, education, food, people, etc. I feel Vietnamese culture is incredibly awesome.

Taking about language, we have countless wonderful words to express our idea, our feeling including slang. 

Music is also amazing. Millions of songs are with numerous topics including loving, motivation for life, friendship, war, etc.

Vietnam is famous for its cuisine. Vietnam is divided into different areas. Each area has great food itself. And so on. 

Through these things, I took a quick-thinking about other countries around the world. Maybe each country has amazing things like that, like in Vietnam (It makes sense since singers always make lots of money in their country). I wondered how many amazing things I don't know and I was afraid that I missed a variety of interesting things out there. Obviously, we don't have much time to know all of those. We focus on our plan and have several experiences in our journey. Developed countries will be known than developing countries such as Vietnam. In my case, I will do more research about American culture, British culture, Chinese and Korean cultures rather than Thai, Cambodian, Pakistan cultures. In conclusion, even though where you were born in a developed or developing country, you should have an objective perspective. You should respect their cultures and enjoy them.

Bye for now.  

  

                 

                                                     Hanoi, July 01, 2020