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Explain Why I Love Vietnam Essay

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Each country has its own culture, special features and different lifestyles. Vietnam , my country which is peaceful and traditional, it one of the best destinations for the tourists. The mighty history, amazing food, unique culture and fantastic places such as Ha Long Bay, Trang An, Phu Quoc and especially, my hometown, Hanoi. In Vietnam, people do so many kinds of activities that surprise foreigners, there are also three daily activities that I will do everyday such as riding motorcycle everyday, covering arms and face with long gauzy gloves and gauzy masks when the sun comes out and lastly eating noodle soup every morning. Riding a motorcycle everyday is a common activity in Vietnam, it’s a usual mode of transportation. The use of mopeds has become the dominant method of transportation in every city of Vietnam, due to the facts that it’s much faster and smaller. Therefore, motorcycles are convenient so it has became the main transportation for most of the Vietnamese family. Even though it’s common in Vietnam, Americans still think its dangerous to ride. According to Mr. Chris Jagger in the …show more content…

Riding motorcycles is one of the most common vehicle to the Vietnamese people but for Americans, they think it’s really dangerous. White skin is important to most of the Vietnamese women and they think dark skin conjures up images of poverty, ugliness so they cover their arms and face with long gauzy gloves, masks when the sun comes out but most of the Americans like tan skin and love sun. Lastly, noodle soup is really common to most of the citizens in Vietnam, they choose it as their ideal breakfast but for Americans, almost of them choose cereal. For my opinion, every countries have a different cultures and lifestyles, this shows why people love to discover new

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