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504 - Why Did Vietnam’s Billionaires Study In Europe, Not America? - Thuy Duong
In this episode, Ken bridges a massive geopolitical divide to interview Thuy Duong, a 1.5-generation media creator running the highly successful Vietcast out of Prague. For many in the West, discovering the robust, 100,000-strong Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic feels like meeting a long-lost cousin.
Thuy breaks down the completely divergent migration patterns of the 1980s: while Vietnamese-Americans escaped the South via refugee boats amidst deep political trauma, the Czech-Vietnamese diaspora arrived from the North through peaceful bilateral contracts between allied communist…
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