As we all know, the cultural differences are always in existence in cross-cultural communication.

In one research, Michael Hecht and his colleagues have classified the cultural differences into six groups: power distance, individualism versus collectivism, gender, uncertainty, context dependence, and immediacy. The limited scope of this essay does not allow me to discuss all these six dimensions; therefore, I would like to focus on just two aspects power distance and individualism versus collectivism. I will take Vietnamese and American values as case studies for in-depth analysis by