Two year ago, when I came to the US, I was really shock. because it seemed like a whole new world for me. I shocked because when I live here, I do not even know who live next to me. Everybody closes the door in their house. No one opens the door during the day. They do not often go outside at night. That was really strange for me at the first time I moved here. I have a funny experience about that. I remember that day, I ran out of sugar, and I ran to my neighbor who live next door, then I knocked the door to ask them lend me some sugar. But five minutes gone and then 10 and then 20 minutes than I gave up. I backed home, and I told my sister about that. She said that "are you crazy, people in here never open the door for the strange person, you should remember that and do not do it again." I was thinking a lot about that experience because in my country, we know everybody live around us, and we usually come to everyone's to hang out and talk together.
My challenge is language problem but I think I will overcome it in one day not so far. I will beat you up, just wait =)=) lol
The wonderful thing that I expect when I came to The US is everybody usually start their conversation by the word "sorry" and end it by the word "thank you" this is really nice and beautiful.
I really like your story. You still keep your culture of Vietnam. Many people in Vietnam always do like your action when they do not have enough something, so they often go to next door to ask or borrowing something. Then when they have, they will give back for their neighbor. You are so lucky because they did not open the door, some of other they can use gun to kill you because you come their house without their permission. In my opinion, you should ask your sister before you do something. This place is totally different from Vietnam. Moreover, welcome Nga to America. You should try to adapt and take more time to familiar with new cultural. Remembering always asking your members before doing somethings. Best wishes.
ReplyDeleteHi Nga!!! Your story is very interesting :) when I read it, I remembered about myself, too. You and me have the same case about our neighbor who never open the door for strange person. But right now, I try adapt with it and I feed better. My subdivision have a webside for every people live in can chat and share news with each other . This website is very helpful for neighbor who is never meet even your house next to their house. :)
ReplyDeleteHi Nga. Your story remind my childhood. In Korea, today people do not open door to stranger like here, but when I was young it was not like this. We were really close with neighbor, and we share many things like what you did. They came to my home then eat together sometimes they sleep too. That moment neighbor was kind of friend. Sometimes I miss my childhood.
ReplyDeleteHi Nga, I agree with you that Americans are very polite. Also, they respect the personal privacy and freedom, but it creates a distance between people, too. Like they don’t want to bother others, even they really need some help.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I love the way you go out to ask for sugar when you ran out of this. That makes me remember the time in Vietnam, when our neighbor declared that we always have a convenience store next to our door.
I often ask my neighbors for something: a tomato, a potato, or something like that, and they never have it! American women don't cook a lot anymore because most of them work all day. For this reason, they don't have any food at home! =)
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