Key Aspects of Vietnamese Family Culture

Learn about family culture

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In this video today, we're going to talk about family cultures in Vietnam.

What are your favorite culture topics?

I love culture topics because I get to share with you different things aside from learning Vietnamese only.

Compared to the Europe cultures, it's going to be way different.

So let's get started.

What is your favorite culture in Vietnam?

In Vietnam,

meaning children live with parents until they get married in Vietnam.

In a lot of countries, people usually move out when they're over 18

or like when they attend college or something.

But in Vietnam, it's very, very common to live with family until they get married.

We have to take care of the parents, we have responsibilities,

and we need to contribute to the family until they get married.

Because at that time, we will have to contribute to the husband's family or the wife's family.

So that's a reason why.

But in case you have to study abroad or you need to move to another city for work or for studying,

it's also very common to move out.

But if you live in the same city and you live separately, it's considered as very different.

For me, I want to spend time with my family as much as possible before I get married.

So it's very common to

What about after getting married?

Is it very common to live with family after getting married in your country?

Please leave a comment below and let me know.

After getting married, Vietnamese people still live with their family.

The sons will stay with the parents and the daughters will go to their husband's family.

There are still some families and couples that they live independently and separately

from their parents and it's very common also.

If you want to say that you live on your own or you live separately after getting married,

we say

Sống chung means live together and sống riêng means live separately.

means like I will move out after getting married.

Hoặc ba cặp vợ chồng sống chung một nhà.

Một số gia đình có hai hoặc ba cặp vợ chồng sống chung một nhà means like in some families,

there are two or three married couples living together.

Like living in the same house, not together in that way.

Okay, basically it's because sometimes for example,

if I have like two siblings and they all get married,

if the house is big enough, we live together.

Of course, we have to share the bills and stuff like that.

So everybody will have to contribute to the house.

Depends on the family, I guess, because sometimes the parents will pay for everything

and it's not fair for them, right?

So nowadays, most families will share the bills

if they have like two or three married couples living together.

Dâu là con, dễ là khách.

Dâu is a daughter-in-law and dễ is son-in-law.

The daughter-in-law is a daughter and the son-in-law is a guest.

It means when a woman gets married and she moves to the husband's family

or she moves in the husband's house, right?

So she's considered as a real daughter of the family.

But because the son-in-law usually has some distance to the wife's family,

he's considered as a guest.

We still think that the woman will get along with the family quickly

rather than the man.

Nowadays, things are different.

Sometimes the son-in-law is very loving, very caring and understanding.

And sometimes he even contributes to the family even more.

So it depends, okay?

Right, we just talked about some very general information,

very general cultures.

However, the marriage life will be a little bit different.

So let's see what cultures we have.

Many mother-in-law and daughter-in-law often have many conflicts.

I don't know about other countries, okay?

But in Vietnam, it's a huge conflict.

Even though nowadays most of the mother-in-laws

are more understanding and easygoing,

but where they have to live in the same house,

there will be different kinds of misunderstandings.

For example, sharing the bills, what to cook,

what to spend time for.

Like there are many little things like that.

Yeah, that's it.

Nên tảng is like a background and tài chính is like finance or financial.

So nên tảng tài chính is like the financial background

or how much money you make a month.

Người có nền tảng tài chính tốt trong gia đình thường có tiếng nói

is like people who have good financial backgrounds in the family,

usually are more appreciated.

Depends on the family's culture, of course.

But when you make more money and you contribute more to the family,

you get to decide a little bit more.

I wouldn't say that when you are more financial independence,

then you're just very powerful.

But it's like people will consider your opinions

a little bit more carefully, something like that.

Those are some common things about family cultures in Vietnam

and I hope it helps when you get married to a Vietnamese person.

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