Vietnamese And Vietnamese Family Traditions

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Family traditions So I’m Vietnamese and Vietnamese people have a tradition where they go to this shrine or portrait of Buddha or the Vietnamese god and they pray for good luck or chant things they want to come true and in return they have to give the God food and bow down three times to get your wish to come true or get good luck, it is also known as Buddhism. I don’t believe in this tradition but I still do them because every time I wish for something good it never happens but my parents and grandparents force me to do it so I still do it. We do this tradition every American holiday which is weird in my opinion because we should do it only on Asian holidays. We go to my grandparents house because they’re the people

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