Updates (June 30, 2025)
I am working with my dad and finally understand life as a Vietnamese born in Canada … It was doing the traditional old fashioned Western lifestyle all along. I got where I wanted in life and now more then with Canadians. It is just being nice and balanced working routine now.
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As a guy and a coloured guy, you definitely don’t want to be on social media to become world famous and make money and work.
The secret to a good accomplished life is studying your thing and keeping out of trouble with your same culture friends born here like you. Then after work a OK job for routine and stability because you know balance of both worlds. You don’t want a hectic lifestyle full of wants and needs and drama.
Don’t ever really take that much consideration of outsiders because life is perfect in Canada just minding your own business. The media and outsiders try to influence you to spend and waste away and even not have a family of your own.
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I realized the trick for a good life for a Vietnamese born in Canada is studying your thing and being good. Keeping out of trouble until you made it with your Vietnamese friends who are also born in Canada. There is a connection between Vietnamese kids born in Canada.
That is all it is.
Tony Tie and Tammy Nguyen helped me focus on the floating lifestyle of Canada. There is so much abundance and it is so broad that you keep doing whatever you like and exploring safely until you get to where you want and more.
That is the thing about the West/Canada, you can life peaceful and quiet as long as you understand the big picture of life in Canada. This is beyond the daily news and beyond the daily drama. The broad picture of doing your own thing.
The broad picture has to be always in the back of your mind as you are born and shown it in grade school by your teachers. Just keep good and keep away from trouble and study at school first and study on your own and work normal after.
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Basically you are doing your grade 6 dreams in life as a coloured person in Canada before interested in a partner and money for the growth to work alongside Westerners. There is nothing more than that.
Yes, you do explore while growing up a bit but if you explore too much then you get broken inside and your parents and family get broken too. You are full of hate, comparisons and lose focus on the good things in life which is …
The goal is to have a traditional family.
Just study, get the education, get really educated advanced and recognized on your own, then work a stable job like your own business (car mechanic shop, computer repair store, small ethnic grocery store, etc.) without worrying about social media and having no drama. Just good traditional work to keep you busy and buzzed a bit.
Asking for more becomes hectic and downhill from the start.
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I get support from Canadians doing my job with my dad.
If anyone asks for more, then it is bad and not balanced.
I want a OK life that is steady and semi-focused with some semi-authority.
Vietnamese born in Canada understand this.
The Vietnamese from Vietnam don’t understand this I think so I avoid talking to them because I am pretty sure they don’t see what I see and feel 100%. And it got to be 100%. Even other immigrants don’t really see this either.
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The other day when taking the taxi to the place of work, the immigrant driver understood my way of life. I got understood and supported by the immigrant driver as my life is given to me in Canada by Canadians.
That is the thing, the bigger players in Canada dictate really what is nice and right. And it should be OK.
Kids born here understand that I think.
But you still have to enjoy and explore your culture too but not make it a fixture.
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The broad picture doesn’t change really.
You are supposed to get along and work together.
But everyone has to be 100% educated regardless. You see that overtime just by working and living.
That is the reality.
And also the reality is the circle of life.
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There is behaving Vietnamese.
There is behaving like a Vietnamese young adult.
There is behaving like a Vietnamese-Canadian (Vietnamese born in Canada).
Then there is getting along with Canadians.
Somehow being on the other side of the world in South East Asia is somewhat compatible and incompatible with Canadians LOL!