Updates (Dec 5, 2025)
Culture of Vietnamese in North America …
I am noticing a lot of Vietnamese cafe shops opening in the GTA.
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Cà phê sữa đá – Vietnamese Iced Coffee with condensed sugar milk …
Vietnamese coffee – Cà phê …
Is good. Even Vietnamese iced tea is good.
Vietnamese Iced Coffee with condensed sugar milk tastes good. The amount of caffeine and sugar in it is maybe comparable to a Triple Triple???
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So Vietnamese cafe shops are something new. It’s coffee beans set the mood to a different world.
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How is it like to be an Oshawian person?
How was it like to be born in Oshawa, live there for a few years, move to Ajax then move back?
I like the Oshawian personality.
I love walking downtown on Simcoe and King.
I feel at home really when I walk around there.
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Sometimes I feel I miss my old stomping grounds in Ajax (Kingston and Harwood).
But I am an Oshawian. I like Oshawa Mall. I like Downtown.
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The funny thing about being Canadian …
North America is an experiment.
600 years ago Europeans sailed to the New World.
The immigrants from the Old World built the infrastructure and New World culture.
It is the immigrants that hold the baseline as the North Americans become more native and more native to North America after every generation.
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If you look at the current president of the USA and look at his parents and their parents you see that the male American born marries an immigrant to keep things in check. The immigrant wife from the Old World sets the rules for the American to grow and evolve from.
He set the example for the world for fresh, bold, Old World and New World thinking in collaboration.
Game of forwardness.
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If you don’t then things might crumble as the North American experiment requires highest skilled Old World immigrants to set the standard and work the North American dynamism.
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That means as a Vietnamese man who is 2nd generation Canadian, I should marry an immigrant to keep me up to spec???
If you don’t marry an immigrant who is highly educated in ‘sciences’ … then you end up as a Canadian native couple who stays home all the time and live with their parents??? Ordering groceries online and ordering fast food by smartphone.
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A 3rd+ generation Canadian can marry a 2nd generation Canadian? I don’t think that works.
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Therefore it makes sense for a 2nd generation Canadian to marry an immigrant from Ajax to Toronto or farther to have children and have the gusto to work.
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Do boat people children born in the West marry other boat people children born in the West?
I don’t think that works in reality and long term.
You must have fiery immigrant women wife to set the rules.
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Where do fiery immigrant women work and have families? Ajax to Toronto and beyond. More Westward as there are factory jobs and cultural things that setup life for immigrants in the West. The West from Toronto to Vancouver accepts immigrants more.
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Why is it great to have a fiery immigrant wife who went to school for 4+ years in the West? They understand the hardships of trying to work and blend in.
They even accept opening a cafe shop selling Vietnamese coffee or bakery selling banh mi and egg tarts in Scarborough. Even slave away in the back kitchen of a Scarborough food place just to live here.
Only immigrants women who have a university 4-year degree in a ‘hard science’ from a big well known university usually understand life in the West and don’t ask for anything at all. They will work to provide for themselves, their husband and their children.
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Am I wrong about East and West?
I befriended people from Ajax to Toronto and worked with them for years and we built something.
I have no real collaborative friends from Oshawa to Newfoundland.
It is too hard to collab with the East towards UK.
I am doing whatever I can to make conversation with people in Britain.
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Toward Toronto from Whitby … you can work services and restaurants to survive. Those are cultural establishments from Indian restaurants to Thai food. Cultural establishments can exist in Ajax toward Vancouver.
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Tony Tie is a childhood friend of mine.
He works a lot.
He also works with the Asian community spanning across the globe too.
He taught me this … He regularly works with people from Toronto to Cali.
That is where you have connections and find work for a Vietnamese from Durham Region …
But does that get you a fiery immigrant wife and kids?
The next step for me is wife and kids.
Does that mean I go the old Asian way and go back to Vietnam and restart the cycle?
My kids will educate themselves in Vietnam and become independent and fiery and make their way to the New World to make money for North American and themselves. Then their children will return to Vietnam like me?
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What do immigrant parents do for work in the New World?
My father worked any job he could find when he came here including my mother.
Their North American born children eventually did 2nd generation work. Some worked in services and some did their own thing.
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Immigrant children when they come to the New World, attack jobs like medicine. I am born in Canada so I did not.
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So to have kids with clear goals is to have your children in Vietnam and immigrate them to the New World when they are 10+ years old so they do the professional jobs that their Vietnamese grandparents want from the Old World.
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The reality of work in North America …
Yes, you can study 12-18 hours a day to get admission to a professional career.
But also you can slave away working in a large national buffet to learn too and have a family and children.
Working in kitchens (restaurants) teaches you life as well.
It is not working for the Fortune 5 companies that will give you everything.
People need to understand that life is 50:50.
If you are not working for a Fortune 5 company now, then the next generation will because their father did not.
The cycle will reverse and repeat.
You have to accept the cycle of life of ups and downs.
Only when you have reached a level of built structure then you understand the cycle of life since 10,000+ years.
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Life requires learning and doing with people with you and against you.
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