Topic: Learning about other countries’ customs has no value for us as a Cambodian.Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

In our conclusion, we disagree the idea that learning othercountries’ custom has no value for us as a Cambodian. It’s worth learning about customs because it could broader our knowledge and especially let us see the world with different vision.

Culture is the way of life of a particular group of people at a particular region. As part of cultures, there are beliefs, traditions, and especially customs. Custom refers to a way of behaving or a belief which has been established for a long time. Each custom is different from another. If we compare to one custom to others, we can’t say that one is inferior to the others because each custom of a county has its own value. Indeed, we, as a Cambodian, think it’s worth learning other countries’ custom for few reasons.

            First of all,its advantage is related to ASEAN economic community in the upcoming 2015. Its economy will be integrated so that itmeans all the 10 countries would share the whole economic growth together. Each citizen of ASEAN countries could go to work in either one among these counties. However, when other countries in SoutheastAsia have different custom from their own, there are some skills or knowledge they have to be aware of before all of these employees could work in a new environment. For example, they could learn English language before working abroad because it is used in all the countries.

Secondly, being aware of other customs would improve the process ofinvestmentagreement.Sincemost of the countries development around the world relies on economic nowadays, investment has taken an important role in the economic growth. Before investors makes decision to invest a particular country, they studies about the background, companies, law, etc. include custom in that country. After they made decision, they will put their capital and talk on agreement, but a little unawareness of greeting would be matter to the success. After all, we have to know our partners well in order to succeed in investment agreement.

Last of all, its value is avoiding culture shock. As we already mentioned above, custom is a part of culture of a particular group of people. Culture shock is the state that people approach into a new area and they find out that the way people act over there is offensive or unacceptable. Talking about two people from two different counties, they actually have two different customs. When one of them enter a new environment, they will feel shock because of the way people over there treat or behave is so different that he or she can adopt with in a very short period.