Updates (July 17, 2025)
After doing my thing which is:
- Studying what I want
- Doing what I want
- Getting something out that I want that was personal
- Zoning out for 3 years till I am comfortable with something I got out
- Talking to Vietnamese my age in the West who have businesses and are working and having families of their own in Canada
I learned that the only way to scale up in thinking, doing and to see a different perspective in life and to socialize at the higher level is to self-study for me with support of my team and friends.
Then you can actually avoid a lot of problems: Problems with people, problems with thinking, problems with bias. You can actually think at a malleable productive level with people finally.
Doesn’t everyone get this pathway born in Canada though??? I am seeing other Vietnamese old as me in the West talk mature.
Eventually people just get old and see the squabbles of daily life odd and out of place and just learn and grow going about adult businesses.
I guess it is just a cycle too. Growing older and wiser has it’s pain and trouble like everything else in the world.
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Why culture is important …
After going back to college in 2017, I was culture shocked by the Vietnamese from Vietnam from all 3 regions and also from city centers. They had goals, Vietnamese themed goals, from being born and raised in Vietnam.
Most did not think much of me … It was OK though. I lived the Canadian born life that was lazy, drifting but open/partially open. But because I was older and past the young stage I was determined to do things different and my way as an older adult student. I took is slow and steady to grow. I had a goal. I had my goals.
So basically I showed up everyday for the next 8 years and found my way through interacting with the Vietnamese mainly.
I showed up for the Vietnamese people I met over the years. I had to. They supported me when I was weak and uncultured.
But really I showed up everyday for the Vietnamese in my hometown college. The different environment out here in East GTA allowed for more Western thinking I think. The Vietnamese attending the schools out here in East GTA understood ‘Canadians’ out here. Also because I was born in East GTA, I could act like myself born here and also work with the ‘Canadians’ here and access the resources here.
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