Some comparisons between british and vietnamese greeting culture
Comparison between British and Vietnamese greeting
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| 2.2. Comparison between British and Vietnamese greeting.
I would like to support some similarities and differences to help everybody understand more about Vietnamese and British greetings culture clearly. In the first part, I would like to give some similarities between Vietnamese and British greeting culture. In my mind, Vietnamese and British have similar attitudes in greetings: British as well as Vietnamese people are very friendly, polite when greeting. And both of them express respected attitude to the listeners. Besides Both of them have trend of using indirect question in greetings. Finally, British as well as Vietnamese often shake hand each other to greet, especially in business communication. In the last part, I'd like to focus on the differences between Vietnamese and British greeting culture. The first difference is in each situation of British and Vietnamese greeting. The below table will show clearly the difference. Situation British Vietnamese 1. Greetings on the run: This situation happens between two people who have close relationship. They meet each other and just say a few words because they don’t have a lot of times to chat. In this situation, we can see that British people use very simple, short information to greet everybody. Vietnamese people use personal pronoun and use private activities to greet. 2. Speedy greetings: This greeting often stars and ends conversation quickly to do other things. British people do not use much information in greeting. Vietnamese people use and ask more about specific information. 3. The chat: This kind of greeting is similar to speedy greeting but people exchange some much more information and often stop with a problem which they are concerning British people often ask about unexpected things. Vietnamese people usually use this greeting to say or end about something . tải về 264.61 Kb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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