Updates (Mar 14, 2026)
How did Vietnamese live in the past?
How did Vietnamese live in An Giang province for the past 200 – 300 years?
They owned farm land and just had enough mostly.
10 pieces of land to feed their family with some extra???
Is this a North American narrative or a Vietnamese narrative of how Vietnamese lived in the past? Mostly a North American one, simply thinking Vietnamese are just farmers without Asian and World geo politics at play ???
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Did my parents trick me into living externally here in Canada?
Did they make me here in Canada to push me to live like a North American and work this way?
Are they converting me to live externally instead of internally naturally like in An Giang?
Instead of working 1 season a year farming now I got to study?
How does my father’s family differ from my mother’s side?
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So what really pushed me back to North America in 2015 – 2016?
Older cousins, Anh Bửu and Anh Lộc on my mother’s side from uncle #4.
Anh Lộc went highest level consciousness angry upset demon mode and I stared straight into his eyes to the depths of no-mans-land telling me how upset and disappointed he was that his 33 year old cousin did not have skills, no PhD, no life understanding, no money, who was going back to Vietnam to live. All his friends overseas were able to get their skills and education but his cousin had diddly squat. Anh Lộc did not have the opportunity to live overseas and his cousin was jumping ship losing out to the first class amenities of living in the First World.
At that time, Anh Lộc had a child and was living back home and he basically said married life with a kid is horrible …
You work doing your job on projects of weeks, pay bills with no money left over and the baby is a kid that needs lessons 24/7 and attention all the time.
Becoming an adult is like “What the Heck?!” … You should get all your education first ???
Anh Bửu said life sucks. He was older than me by 15 years and said life doesn’t get any better unless you work and work and work and build and build. Life is the dog house.
The first 5 to 10 minutes of conversation is great between older 30+ years old cousins but quickly sours as adults requirements come up. Then it is hell from there on out.
The key takeaway is your first cousins. Some have to be older and some have to be younger to have this affect and synergy and connection.
Your parents have a different take but your cousins watch the same MTV and Western media as you, they can get to your level. At the end it is disappointment in each other that is so visceral that it torments and ruins your life and happiness knowing your older cousins took the steps first. They studied and had a family and are regurgitating the problems in real time in your face what your parents told you 30 years before when you were 5 years old. It is so impactful and in your face that you are haunted throughout your entire body, soul and core with this regurgitated information. This is if you don’t have a specialized skill to deal with the world.
Regardless of the people in North America, people, friends and people you do not like or do not get along with, not having the skills and education from the First World is unthinkable from Vietnamese in Vietnam. That is what I learned really. Somehow you got to get along and get the high level skills regardless of circumstance.
Also the key things about older Vietnamese high educated cousins is that they are older, more mature, talk in a way that is supportive, understanding, considerate and accepting. With educated Vietnamese folk, their tangent is skill and job skills acquisition. Life is not determined by fun and games, money and assets but through skills and attainment of specialized skills. Even naming conventions of Vietnamese talk about knowledge and wealth and prosperity. All positive things coming from educated 10+ years older cousins.
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The key problem …
The immigration problem of different lifestyles and perspectives between Vietnam and Canada. One is Western based while the other Eastern.
The solution is the middle children in families. The middle children show and tell you how it is. They got to balance the front children from the back children to keep the family whole as a unit to survive.
I kept my end up here in Canada slaving away for the next 10 years since 2015. I got the education and skills necessary to hold my end up here in Canada.
Now my relatives back home understand and share the opportunities and knowledge and skills of what manifested from the dual cooperation.
Now both sides of the family is safe, both locations are OK.
All the middle children from each family mother’s and father’s side have to work together for the whole family line to survive and reach tranquility and stability.
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The key takeaway was that I was allowed the time to grow here in Canada through Western and all sorts of perspectives from living here in Canada. Multiculturalism and the dynamism is what propels and fuels this action.
From bridging language and cultural barriers, I was able to accomplish somethings to fulfill the the connection and get a positive response overseas back home.
The key thing was time to understand and time to build beyond the circumstances in front of you. Canada allowed that.
It is just building bigger really. Build and build so you one day have something. And that something can accommodate others.
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The practical way of building solutions required too much manpower.
The final solution was safe and clean with users across the world being able to understand what is written.
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Our solution was to be different. So different in fact that it made things awkward. And that was the solution.
With some usage, play and mobility, we got a special solution.
It was just awkward to use and update that at the end became a educational toy and used privately.
We could use it to market other solutions. But the key is that is was a fusion of a bunch of stuff that made it hard to use and describe and explain.
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Above two section rewritten using products and history …
Usually products are big projects that require established companies with employees that have used computers for 30+ years.
Sophia Script for Windows is from a small team which is clean and safe to use for all users worldwide as it is coded normally to be easily read (scripting mostly). It is designed to be the simple but not so simple standard.
The Debloaters from FreeTimeTech are normal debloaters but have a twist.
At the end it wasn’t the solution. It became a marketing tool and educational toy. If used, it was updated privately for internal use by users or companies.
It was a fusion of this and that. You could update it yourself through the GUI and the updates refreshed instantly. The mashup of this and that showed how fragmented and confusing the software is. It is similar to Vietnamese history. But once you piece it up, there is something useful and hard to explain.
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The main driver is that the Debloating and utility market before FreeTimeTech was mostly text console based and sparse.
Ben and David came in adding fresh blood into the mix. This means immigration. Vietnamese immigration to North America.
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They got into the topic of Windows customization and modding like North Americans. David who is Southern Vietnamese origin assimilated into North American modding culture.
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But there are 2 components to this. One is normal everyday life skills acquisition and understanding of Western life and other cultures. The 2nd is individual skills acquisition to address the underlying personal problem of living as a Vietnamese in North America.
If you take the time to understand how dreadful it is to be full South Vietnamese with no admixture, you will come to an understanding how things are. Basically, I had to do computer programming at the end to support myself and my family and who I represent. The skill of computer programming enables the skills of everything else. And with that allotment of skills, what can you do? What can you not do?
With computer programming you can do a lot and adapt and maneuver. Key thing is to adapt.