Updates (Jan 22, 2026)
I found that you just to build structure and complexity … but do it your way.
Like do something you find worthwhile.
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You can get carried away doing more and comparing … but at the end … you do what you like to learn and grow with comfort and growth.
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Vietnamese in Toronto like (Mississauga, Toronto and Scarborough) have this network.
I never knew about this network.
I am understanding it more now.
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The Vietnamese network I am exploring.
What should I do more of?
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The trick to a good life in the West it to do what you really want.
Like do it for decades and decades and decades. 40+ years to be exact.
See the aftermath of working on yourself uniquely and enjoyably.
Don’t really listen to your parents. Everyone knows the way to enlightenment.
It is to study everything to get full breadth of life to fully sustain yourself.
That is right. Build and build until you can build your own ‘farm’ production.
It is encoded in your genes to fulfill full sustainability.
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Funny thing about life …
In the West, people perceive your race and skills based on Western stereotypes during tragic events and war.
But Vietnam has entered a ‘lower-middle-income status’ country since 2009.
That means a lot of access to technology and services.
In 2025, Vietnam entered upper-middle income. So things are OK now.
Even when visiting your local cafe shop in Long Xuyen, you will notice the people are educated and aware of life in and outside of Vietnam.
Sometimes when venturing out into the busy afternoon, I would notice the intelligence and pursuance of knowledge around back in 2016.
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Immigrant parents waste so much time teaching their kids born in the West that they are also capable individuals like the natives here and also their immigrant cousins.
The kids born into the system believe the negative stereotypes 100% sometimes or leave a 10% open to change. There is always room to improve and being open enables people to be nice and adapt.
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I went to the hospital the other day in my local city.
I realized life is to keep doing your stuff even after 4 decades.
Life is crappy without working on your hobbies.
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Life is good as long as you do the really good things.
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Millennials and true passion …
What generation did not have the world and social media telling them what to eat?
I am not sure … does everyone still have a passion? Or is it playing on a tablet? and reading the latest news and gossip?
What is your true passion?
What can you do all alone by yourself?
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I hear a lot criticism …
But is it your passion?
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Without passion then what is life?
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Is my passion being well and playing on the computer like I was in grade 6? …
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Out in public, people may say this and that and critique you … but the secret is:
- Be old. Project to that life is ‘old’. You don’t have really the time to talk ‘young’ unless it builds to helps you during old age and theirs.
- You have your projects and tangents. 99.9999% of the day is being by yourself on your hobbies.
And really at the end of the day, it is your hobbies still. Regardless of people, race and culture, life in the West supports individual pursuits.
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What do you do as Funan people … wait.
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The struggle.
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At the end of the day …
Practical living is what matters …
Mowing the lawn and real estate.
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Now I understand immigrants.
What the USA president family makes sense. Each 2nd generation son marries a person from the Old World.
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If you keep talking this and that with other 2nd generation immigrants nothing practical happens at all. No children, no family, no marriage.
Time to disconnect for a family? For a practical life.
I guess yes because if 2nd gen marries 2nd gen then problems like spoiled kids come into play.
Life is about kids not you or me.
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What did I do for decades in the back of my mind?
I was going to work on myself for decades and return to Toronto to show what a Vietnamese did in Durham Region.
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The whole point of this is this …
You marry an immigrant so a practical life happens.
You don’t really want kids who are spoiled that daydreams all day at 35+ years old.
If you marry a person born in the West, you end up taking care of ‘man/woman’ children till you are 109 years old then you both die within months of each other.
Either marry an immigrant or go back to the Old World as a personal Tour Guide.
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Countries will always exist. We are just waiting for the next ice age.
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What can I do?
Pivot time to start a family.
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What can I do in my country?
What can I do in my origin country?
Do Vietnamese in Vietnam understand? Do Vietnamese in general understand?
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