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Vietnam

Vietnamese etiquette runs on Confucian-rooted respect for age and hierarchy — greeting elders first, addressing people with kinship terms instead of names, exchanging business cards with both hands. The same taboos around chopsticks upright in rice and funeral-colored gift wrap show up in China and Japan too, but they're taken just as seriously here.

5 rules.

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Rules in Vietnam

Present and receive business cards with both hands

Business

Never leave chopsticks standing upright in your rice

Dining

Skip knives, clocks, and handkerchiefs as gifts

Gifts

Take your shoes off just outside the door

Home

Greet the oldest person in the room first

Social