Updates (Jan 30, 2026)
My father studies and works a lot still.
He spends time working and saving money and viewing content from Vietnam and other places.
What is the underlying thing he is learning?
Well he is an immigrant. His job is to make money. Immigrants love to make a difference and money.
So he makes money in the West and concentrates on making more money. Well just enough money.
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What does it do to me who is 2nd generation Vietnamese born in Canada?
Over the years I address multiculturalism.
It created stuff. But did it make money? Money for who?
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So what did I learn from Asia as a 2nd generation Vietnamese born in Canada?
I understand how they think and what they stand for.
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Health and healthy mindset …
Is it really that important to go outside and socialize daily?
I am not sure about that now.
After socializing with my same frequency friends online daily from home and doing my thing, I get the following:
- I am calm
- I am hydrated
- I am relaxed
- I don’t really feel stressed from new encounters or new conversations
- I learn
- I learn what I like and grow tremendously from it. The more I zone out the better. Better health and better growth.
- Does this sound like the 1500s?
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The amount of things I am grown to do for the past 3-5 months has changed …
- Developing more things with my friends and team
- Finally yesterday, realized I became a Vietnamese-Canadian writer of life and multiculturalism from Canada.
The coolest thing I realized over the past 5-6 months is this phenomenon.
Normally people are on social media posting the latest craze. People are thinking life only makes sense and connected when they are Interwebbed Web 4.0.
But I stopped viewing YouTube for months, I stopped doom scrolling Instagram, I got off Facebook.
What did it do to me? Instead of feeling the target audience of influencers … I drink tea, drink coffee, drink some water, relax and do my thing more calmly and pretty stress free.
When I get out in public the 45 year old people and below are full of stress and distrust because they are online Web 4.0 all day catching and participating in the latest craze to look cool and in the zone with the world community.
The 60+ year old seniors walking to the grocery store are to themselves enjoying their retirement casually for the most part because they experienced WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War and all the Middle East Wars and now see the youth glued their smartphones in 240Hz, 8K with HDR and 9000 nits wanting to be the next big social media influencer for the entire world or at least participate somehow to win a gift card to the latest fusion restaurant.
Then I am pretty much alone on a tangent that is unique and deep one vertical drop.
The less YouTube, the less Instagram, the less Facebook the better to go into a tangent that is so unique and fulfilling that the end result is growth and new unique knowledge and perspectives.