Cultural Differences In American Culture

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Differences in culture make country has its own traditional customs. Wedding, an extremely important event on one's life, has specific ritual observances. However, thanks to the cultural exchange, Vietnam wedding customs and those of a foreign country – America, have both similarities and differences.
Both wedding in Vietnam and in America have engagement and wedding ceremony in marriage arrangement. On the engagement ceremony, there are some people who invited to become witnesses for the coming marriage. The bride's father accompanies her on her walk down the aisle to show approval of the groom on the wedding ceremony. These are common thing, but, these ceremonies are quite dissimilar in detail.
Some days before the wedding, in Vietnam, the

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