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Would I ever leave Vietnam and return to America?
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Short answer, no. Long answer, hell no. And that is hell no with capital letters.
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So there is a thousand different reasons why me leaving Vietnam
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and going back to America would be one of the dumbest decisions I've ever made.
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But today I'm just gonna give you a few reasons because
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if I give you all the reasons my camera's gonna run out of battery
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and surely you guys will get tired of hearing me talk.
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The reasons I give today are specific to me.
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Maybe other foreigners will have different opinions so just keep in mind
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that these are my opinions and my experience based on living in America and living in Vietnam.
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So let's get started.
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Reason number one, the cost of living.
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The cost of living in America is astronomical economical compared to Vietnam.
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The way I look at it is everything in Vietnam is roughly 8 to 10 times cheaper than it is in America.
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So for example, rent is about 8 times cheaper.
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Transportation, taking care of your car, taking care of bike, whatever, food, everything, it's about 8 to 10 times cheaper.
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Now it can be more than that, it can be less than that depending on your habits, you know whether you eat healthy whether you eat fast food
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if you eat like a local if you go out
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and to dinner every night all that it can kind of depend but let's talk a little bit about the rent
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so my rent in Miami now the house
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that I had was about $2 ,500 a month
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and this was not a super nice villa beautiful place it was just a very basic house
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and I don't want to say it was in the ghetto but it was in the ghetto.
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So $2 ,500 a month, that's like 40, about 50, about 50 million BND per month.
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Now that does not include electricity, that does not include the air conditioning, your insurance, all that.
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I have, you know, I'm a actor here in the film industry, so I have many actor, producer, fashion designer friends that live in Hollywood,
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and Los Angeles is unbelievably expensive
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so my good friend who is Bao Chan Chi she is the lead costume designer of Chang Ho Lin Si
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and also the lead costume designer of World's Greatest Beer Run
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which is a Hollywood film that was filmed here in Vietnam
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so she is extremely famous well known in the industry there I've never seen her house
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but I would imagine it's a pretty nice house
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and the reason I bring that up is because the other night her
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and I went out to dinner
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and we were talking about you know just the differences between America and Vietnam and she was telling me that
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last month or the month before
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that her air conditioning bill only air conditioning bill was $1
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,200 $1 ,200 is like 30 about 30 million BND can
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you imagine spending 30 million BND just for your air conditioning just to keep your your house cool
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that is that's crazy that is
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so much money now don't get me wrong that's Los Angeles
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you know around Beverly Hills in Hollywood like that's you know much much higher everything is much more expensive there
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so the cost of living rent you're going to spend about eight to ten times as much
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so many people when they move to america they try to get a roommate
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which is always a good well not always a good decision
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if the person's not not good
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but getting a roommate is usually very helpful as long as you can you can trust the person
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but if you have family uh
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or anyone you can live with in america to where you don't have to pay rent
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or just pay less rent that is always a a very good decision
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when i talk to people about my career about my life here in vietnam they always ask like oh
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when are you going back to america
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and i'm like why the hell would i do
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that you know i obviously i don't say it like that
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but i tell them i plan to be in vietnam my my
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which means forever so when i talk to people who are studying in college
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or whatever i always ask them like oh after you get
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out of college do you want to stay in vietnam
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or do you want to live abroad and
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so many people will be like oh i want to go to america
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so i can get a high paying job
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and i'm like bro okay sure you can get a high paying job in america
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but your cost of living is going to be so high
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that you're really not going to be able to save money
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you're going to be basically living paycheck to paycheck depending on
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what your job is you know as a police officer i my salary was good but the stress of you know, the danger of the job,
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the things that I saw, you know, you see murder, suicides, rapes don't know
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if i can say this on youtube
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but anyways you know i just see the worst of the worst stuff it's very stressful
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and for me no amount of money is worth
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that kind of stress yeah and in miami you know of course you're going to see
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and do a lot a lot a lot of stressful things
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so the cost of living for transportation you know in america
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it's a car culture it is not a motorbike culture taking
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care of a car is unbelievably expensive bro tires are
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so expensive getting an oil change is expensive
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and time consuming uh getting gas is expensive
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and time consuming you know it's not like a motorbike where you just pay a couple dollars
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and you're good for a few days you know no no
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getting gas in america is like you it can cost you
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a hundred dollars for a hundred dollars is like 2 .5 million bnd uh you know
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and that's going to last you a few days
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and then you have to fill up again then you have
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your insurance on your car insurance prices are very high you
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know insurance I don't really know too much about insurance here in Vietnam I would imagine it's quite cheap
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but in America it can be like a hundred
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and fifty two hundred dollars a month just for your insurance then
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if you get into an accident whether it's your fault
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or not your insurance is gonna go up even higher
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so it's crazy
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so number one the cost of living would be my number
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one reason why i would never go back to america even
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if i was wealthy in america you know a famous actor
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making millions of dollars i really wouldn't want to live there
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compared to vietnam the only reasons i personally would go back
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to america there's three specific reasons number one is my mom to visit my mom
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and none of these reasons uh mean living there i'm only talking about going to visit okay
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so number one is my mom my mom is really the only family i have in america her
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and i are very close we talk every day
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but she has skin cancer
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so she cannot live somewhere with a tropical climate meaning like she cannot come to vietnam
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and live and stay with me but she did come here
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and visit like i think three years ago
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and just 20 minutes of her being in the sun here her skin was
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so red like it's very dangerous she has lupus
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and essentially lupus is
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if you're in direct sunlight for a certain amount of time like your organs will just start shutting down
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so she lives in north carolina north carolina is a very
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beautiful state very mountainous very it's kind of like how you
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would have dalat here in vietnam that's kind of like what north carolina is
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so my mom has a beautiful house on top of a
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mountain overlooking you know everything around she can see the sunrise in the east
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and the sunset in the west
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so for her where she is it's perfect she can do all the stuff outside
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that she wants with her garden because there's trees
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and there's plenty of shade for her to do it safely
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so anyways so my mom would be number one number two I would go back to America for filming
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but I would only go there to film it would not
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be to live uh i would go there i would do my filming
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and then as soon as the filming is done it's like
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all right buying a plane ticket back to vietnam bye bye
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and then i would come back to vietnam
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and i would just do whatever until i get another filming job in america
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and then go back so that's reason number two reason number three would be to travel
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because america is such a huge place.
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You know, America is gigantic.
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And there's so many beautiful areas to visit.
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For me specifically, I want to go out west, which is where Yellowstone National Park is, the Grand Canyon.
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What's the other one?
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Yellowstone.
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I forgot the name of the other one.
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I'll put it right here.
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But anyways, out there is just so unbelievably beautiful.
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So for me, my one of my ultimate goals in life is to you
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know have enough money to where I can go back to America rent an RV a nice RV
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and then just travel around the country around you know all the national parks the Grand Canyon all of that
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that is one of my life goals uh for sure like
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you know one of my life goals was to become a professional actor in Asia well check I've done
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that already so now it's time for me to start achieving other goals
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and traveling out west in America whether it's with my girlfriend my wife family even alone
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which I really wouldn't want to do it alone just
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because it's like it's such a big area you're going to
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be driving a lot I would want someone to talk to for sure
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so that is reason number three that I would go back to America
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and that's really the only reasons why I would ever consider going back there
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so let's see what else do we have I have a
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list of things i wrote phone bills you know paying for
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a phone bill like here here in vietnam you you have like Vietnam Mobile.
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mobi phone via tell all that is
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so cheap like i don't even keep track of how much money i spend on it
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because it's so cheap i spend i usually add like 200k vnd
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which is like eight dollars and
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that lasts me for about i want to say two months two months maybe even three months sometimes like especially
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if you use wi -fi and here in vietnam everywhere has wi -fi
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so phone bills in america can easily run you like a hundred dollars uh same with internet
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if you have your internet set up at your house a hundred dollars it everything adds up
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so quickly so yeah a cleaner uh having a cleaner in america is usually around like maybe 25
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or 30 an hour uh now here in vietnam I have a cleaner
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that I don't I don't use an app you know because
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if someone's coming into my house to do whatever it needs to be someone
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that is reliable and someone I can trust meaning like
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if I have money in my house I don't want to
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have to worry about like bro the person cleaning my house
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today I don't really know them like you know the woman
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that I have she's the kind of person where
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if she finds money somewhere she will take a picture of it
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and then she will take a picture of where she put the money for me to to get later
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so she she charges me 100k per hour
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and 100k is like four dollars or something like
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that usually it takes her about two hours to clean my house
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and she does a fantastic job so
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if anyone ever needs a cleaner here in saigon i have
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someone i can highly recommend she does a wonderful job all i do is i just message her
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and say hey can you come tomorrow like she doesn't come
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on a set day she just comes whenever I need her
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and hey can you come tomorrow okay sure I'll be there done that's it she shows up
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and then I just pay her you know usually once a month
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or something like that
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so yeah it's very cheap having a cleaner here is very
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cheap all right let's talk about the traffic the traffic culture
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in America is a car culture the traffic culture here in Vietnam is a motorbike culture
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and here in Vietnam it's kind of like just do whatever you want just don't hurt anybody you know
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which is very convenient but also a lot of times it's very stressful
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so one thing i want to talk about is the police uh
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and i want to be very careful how i how i say this
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but as a police officer in america okay let's talk about
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a speeding ticket okay very something very simple speeding ticket if you if i stop you for speeding in America.
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You're going to get a ticket and I'm going to write you a court date.
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Whatever date I give you, you have to show up for court.
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You cannot be like, oh, I'm busy with work.
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They don't care.
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You better miss work and go to court.
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And if you don't go to court on that date, they can issue an arrest warrant for you
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and you will be arrested for not showing up for court that's called a bench warrant.
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So getting a speeding ticket in America can be a very complicated and time consuming process.
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If you have kids, you're going to have to get a babysitter to watch your kids while you go to court.
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You know, you go to court, they're going to be like, okay, this is how much your fine is, please pay it at the window, you know, such and such.
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So it's very, very time consuming.
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That is what I love about Vietnam, is a lot of times, I would say even like 90 % of the time,
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you can pay your fine on the side of the road.
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And there's a lot of people that complain about that.
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And I understand why, don't get me wrong.
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I do understand why that is wrong.
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But at the same time, coming from a police officer's view in America,
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how complicated it is, I would much rather pay a fine on the side of the road
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and then just continue my day much rather do that it's just
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so much easier now when it comes to drinking
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and driving things like that obviously
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that is not something you can do here in vietnam
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if you get caught you know you're going to lose your license you're probably going to go to jail
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and you're going to get a big fine they do take
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that very seriously
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but in terms of like you know many other small things
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just take care of it on the side of the road
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and continue your day because if you do that in america for one
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if you offer money to a police officer in america it's an immediate felony
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and a felony you have different kind of trouble you can be in you have an infraction
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which is something like you didn't use your turn signal
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while changing lanes okay infraction is no problem misdemeanor is like
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you're driving without a license okay that's a little bit bigger
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a felony is like you know you rob someone you rob
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a bank you rob whatever felony is like very high up
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so if you try to offer money to a police officer even a dollar 10 cents
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if you try it off offer money to a police officer
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you get in big trouble you will go to jail they're
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not just going to be like oh no you shouldn't do
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that like no you're gonna go to jail for sure
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so that's one thing i really appreciate about here in vietnam uh
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but like i said i kind of have to be careful how i talk about
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that so yeah that's just my opinion another reason
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that i would never ever ever ever ever ever ever go back to america is the convenience
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so like i said vietnam is a motorbike culture which means everything is designed around motorbikes so for example
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coffee you know getting coffee in the morning it's so easy to just stop on the side of the road
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they bring you your coffee you go literally it takes 30
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seconds in america you have your car you can't stop on the side of the road
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and get coffee like you can't do
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that you need to find a parking lot
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or somewhere where you can safely park unless it's like a drive -through something like
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that so it's always very consuming
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but here you know here in vietnam you just stop on
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the side of the road like one coffee please you pay
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50 cents you take your coffee you go same with food every morning not just morning all times of day
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but specifically in the morning because they know
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that lots of people are traveling for work they have kids they don't have time to cook
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and a lot of people work nine to five jobs so they need cheap food.
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Well street food is ideal for that kind of person.
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So in the morning you can find anything you want on the side of the road.
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Sushi, bún tét nún, căm tăm, pretty much anything.
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And whatever you can't find you can always order on grab.
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So convenience in Vietnam is always just a fingertip away.
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What I mean by
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that is you can use your phone for anything uh there's been many times
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when like for example my girlfriend needed tampons
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and i wasn't at home i was i wasn't able to go get them at the time
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so i just open grab ordered tampons
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and then she had them within like 10 minutes it's just
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unbelievably convenient i went to the gym the other day i wear i wear contacts
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and if i don't have my contacts it's a big problem i can't see
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because my prescription is saudo uh six my prescription is negative six
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so if i can't see it's a very big problem
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if my contacts are dry it's a very big problem especially
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when i'm on camera if i'm filming a movie
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and there's fans going something like that it can dry my contacts very easily
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and that's very irritating it's a very big problem
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so i went to the gym
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and i realized like oh i don't have my i don't have my eye drops
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and i have to have specific eye drops from my contacts
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so i realized like oh i don't have my i don't have my contacts like i need to leave
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and go get whatever
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and then i was like oh wait i live in vietnam
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let me just order let me just order eye drops on grab
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and so that's what i did and then 10 minutes later i had eye drops
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and i was just thinking at the time like bro this is
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so unbelievably convenient like the the convenience of everything in vietnam
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is just mind -blowing the convenience of tourism of traveling of doing anything like you want to travel anywhere it's
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so easy to get on a train it's
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so easy to get on a bus order a grab bike order a grab car
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if you drive yourself it's super convenient to do you can
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get to the beach you can get to the mountains you can do whatever you want
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so easily here vietnam is a very very very patriotic
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and proud country
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and as they should be you know they were ruled by you know i would say colonized uh
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which is probably the better word they were colonized for thousands of years
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and so now they are finally free
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and they are themselves like they are being run by the
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vietnamese they they have such a strong reason to be proud of the progress they've made
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and where they are as a culture
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so vietnamese are a very very proud country you know in america you have
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so many woke people like regardless of oh i hate america
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oh fuck the government you know fuck donald trump you know
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oh america whatever you know in america you can say whatever you want
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and you won't get in trouble it's not like
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that in vietnam in vietnam you know if you talk bad about vietnam
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or the country or the government it's not so much
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that the government will get mad at you it's
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that the people the citizens will feel disrespected in america it's not like that
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if someone were to be like oh fuck america americans wouldn't
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really care they'd be like oh yeah america okay bye
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but here in vietnam like if i were to say something like
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that like it would probably be the end of my career you know it's kind of like
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that foreigner like many years ago this was before my time
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i forgot his name i think his name was dan something like
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that but he was very famous he was an english teacher spoke Vietnamese super well.
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like i said he was very famous
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and for whatever reason i don't i i i know the story
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but i don't know the full details
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but for whatever reason he decided to say some terrible things
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about vietnam he said some stuff about uh oh who was
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it i forgot i'll show it in the video now
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but anyways he uh said some horrible things like things
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that is not just career ending but like it's gonna make people hate you
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and i have no idea why he would do that even
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if you you hated vietnam like just be like oh i hate vietnam
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and then leave but like no he like he said some stuff
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that dropped an atomic bomb and boom so it wasn't
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that the government punished him it was
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that the whole country the citizens all turned on this guy
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and news and everything in vietnam spreads
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so fast you know everyone uses their phone for news for whatever like
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if if a foreigner does something good in saigon people like
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and it's on you know
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and someone takes a video of it people in hanoi are
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going to know about it within like an hour you know it's spread
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so quick same with doing something bad like
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if a foreigner does something bad in saigon like people in
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hanoi are going to know about it within like five minutes you know news spreads
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so quickly so everyone in vietnam turned on this guy
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and was like get the fuck out of our country like
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we don't want you here anymore you're disgusting you're blah blah
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and i agree with that absolutely the things
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that he said were just horrible horrible horrible things i couldn't imagine why he did
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that or you know i i don't know i don't know
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so for me as an actor i'm always on camera
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so i'm always very careful about what I say even
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if I'm making something as a joke I a lot of
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times I have a habit in my life much before not
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so much now but of speaking before I think
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but here in Vietnam I have to think before I speak especially
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when I say something in Vietnamese for example muh new ball
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that means stupid like a cow okay so if you say
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that to someone you might not be meaning it in a very mean way but saying
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that to a vietnamese is unbelievably disrespectful very disrespectful like for
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example someone does something someone leaves their phone you know out in the open where it can be stolen
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and you say like oh moon you ball okay
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that is super disrespectful like that person's gonna want to fight you
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so i like saying moon you bob because it's funny
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but i make sure i only say it about myself i never say it about someone else like for example
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if i leave my keys in my bike
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and i go into a coffee shop and do whatever
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and then come back out
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and the security guard's like oh your keys are here i'm always like oh doing new ball
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and he just kind of laughs
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but that's something i would only say about myself i would never say
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that about someone else ever ever ever So Vietnamese are very proud, very patriotic.
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They love their country as they should.
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I mean, I love their country.
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As everyone knows in the past, you know, Vietnam and America has a history and my country did some terrible, terrible things.
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And for me to live here in Vietnam permanently
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and feel as loved and as welcomed and as appreciated and as cared for as I do, it says
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so much about the Vietnamese people these these people are some
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of the kindest most understanding people I've ever met in my life
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and I haven't traveled too much around the world
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but I mean like I am okay with traveling
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but Vietnamese are without a doubt the most kind and understanding people
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that I've ever met like for example in traffic the way
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I look at traffic is it's kind of like ants
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if you ever look at ants when they're traveling across the ground in a line
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or whatever you get the ants kind of doing whatever
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and every now and then they bump into each other
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and then they just kind of like go on their merry
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way that's exactly how it is in vietnam as long as
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it's not like serious damage for example the other day i was at an intersection a very dangerous intersection
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because of construction
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and i was going through it the same time another bike was going through we were both going slow
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and we hit each other okay neither one of us said anything we just kind of like hit each other
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and then kind of like okay all right
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and keep going exactly like ants exactly like ants so
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that is how i would describe traffic in vietnam is just
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like a whole bunch of ants yeah now there are some myths about america
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that i never realized were
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so well -known until I until I started living here I forget you know I grew up in America
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so I know America very well but 95 % of the population here,
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unless they have family in America or unless they have traveled there before,
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the only thing they know about America is what they see on the news, on TikTok, on TV, in movies, things like that.
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And I always forget that.
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A couple weeks ago or a couple months ago, I had a fan meeting in Hanoi and there was like 50 different people to show up to my fan meeting, which was awesome.
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So shout out to all you guys.
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I really appreciate that.
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And at this fan meeting, one of the guys came up to me, you know, asked him for an autograph.
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And then he's telling me like, hey, in a couple months, I'm actually going to be moving to Tennessee.
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He was like, I'm going there to study or work.
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I think he said study.
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But anyways, he was like, oh, I'm going to Tennessee to study.
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And I wanted to ask you, is there any tips you can give me so I don't get sued
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and I thought that was hilarious like
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that was one of the funniest things someone had asked me
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and the reason it was so funny is
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because he was totally serious he wasn't like making a joke
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like oh how do I not get sued no it was
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like hey bro like what do I do how do I not get sued
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and it was then
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that I realized like bro that's crazy like this is what Vietnamese think about America and
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while yes people do get sued in America it's very like
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oh I'm gonna sue you i'm gonna sue you i'm gonna
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sue you just mind your own business you know don't piss
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anyone off don't do anything you shouldn't be you'll be fine
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so that was one thing that's one myth is
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that you're gonna get sued for everything which could happen
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but it doesn't mean you're actually gonna get in trouble uh
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number two no you cannot just easily buy a gun now
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yes guns are everywhere it is part of our history it's
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part of our culture it's it's a part of who we
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are it's in our constitution like everyone has the right to bear arms
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which means everyone has the right to carry a gun as
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long as you're not carrying it in an aggressive way i get lots of people
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that ask me like oh i hear
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that you can just walk into a store
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and buy a gun it's like bro no you cannot do
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that like of course you have to do paperwork of course
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like they do do background checks uh now unfortunately there is a lot of crazy people
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and people that have mental problems that do buy guns
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and the the problem with that is
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when buying a gun it's really hard to determine
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if someone has negative or bad intentions like
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if they've done something wrong in the past you will see it in the background check
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and you will be like oh this guy you know committed
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a crime with whatever like no we're not going to sell him a gun okay of course that's easy
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but maybe someone is planning on doing something bad in the future
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and they walk in and they're like oh hi yeah i want to buy a gun
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and they're super nice
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and they're smiling they do the paperwork you do the background
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check they've never been in trouble okay well here's your gun
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i mean you don't get it immediately like there is a
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waiting period you're not just going to walk in a store
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and walk out with a gun it doesn't work like
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that it takes time and so anyways that person will eventually get their gun
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and now someone with bad intentions has a gun
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and that's what you will see in the news
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so yes america is a gun culture but you cannot just show up anywhere
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and buy a gun someone actually told me one time they were like oh i heard
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that babies can buy guns
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and i'm like bro babies don't even have money where are they gonna buy a gun with no money
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so yeah anyways these are just some of the reasons why
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I would never ever leave America for Vietnam here I feel so loved
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and appreciated I feel more at home here in seven years
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of living in Vietnam than I did my entire life living
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in America in America I was a decorated police officer saving
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lives saving multiple lives two of them I saved with CPR
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and one with Heimlich maneuver and two of those were children
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so I'm very proud of
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that that's something i'm very very proud of people a lot of people ask me
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when they talk about my police career they'll be like oh have you ever killed someone
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but like no one ever asked like have you ever saved someone
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and so for me no i've never killed anyone
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but yes i have saved multiple people uh so
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if there's ever an emergency
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if there's ever anything i can handle the situation you don't have to worry about
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that uh yeah
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so anyways i just want to give a shout out to everybody in vietnam thank you
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so much for helping me to achieve my dreams like you
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know now i am an extremely famous actor here in vietnam
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and my career is growing and growing and growing
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and all of these vlogs i'm doing now is just to kind of document my life
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and you know show people what i'm doing here in vietnam
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so if you like this video please make sure you like comment subscribe
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that would be great share the video tell anyone about it tell your grandma about it tell your grandma to watch.
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But if you like, leave a comment, tell me what you liked.
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And if you did not like it, leave a comment, tell me why you didn't like it.
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If you have any suggestions about what kind of videos you would like to see in the future
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or what places you want me to go, anything you want me to do.
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I love interacting with people and I love trying new things.
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So leave a comment down below and I will do it.
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All right, so that's all for this video.
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Bye -bye.
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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon
Cette leçon d’expression orale s’appuie sur la vidéo « Would I Ever Leave Vietnam & Return To America? ». Cette vidéo contient 474 phrases et 5641 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 30:12. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 187 mots par minute : attendez-vous à des liaisons et à des sons réduits. 86 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais ; le reste mérite d’être vu avant de commencer.
Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo
15 mots de la vidéo à retenir, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| ant nom | /ænt/ | fourmi |
| sue verbe | /sjuː/ | poursuivre en justice, intenter un procès à |
| consume verbe | /kənˈsum/ | consommer |
| horrible adjectif | /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/ | horrible, affreux |
| convenient adjectif | /kənˈviː.niənt/ | commode, pratique |
| convenience nom | /kənˈvinjəns/ | convenance |
| designer nom | /dɪˈzaɪnɚ/ | designer, styliste |
| depend verbe | /dɪˈpɛnd/ | dépendre |
| stressful adjectif | /ˈstɹɛsfəl/ | stressant |
| disrespectful adjectif | /dɪs.ɹɪˈspɛkt.fəl/ | irrespectueux |
| complicated adjectif | /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/ | compliqué, alambiqué |
| habit nom | /ˈhæb.ɪt/ | habitude |
| warrant nom | /ˈwɔɹənt/ | mandat |
| safely adverbe | /ˈseɪfli/ | prudemment |
| costume nom | /ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/ | costume |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Sens |
|---|---|
| go back verbe | rentrer, retourner |
| go out verbe | sortir |
| go through verbe | traverser |
| show up verbe | apparaître, se montrer se pointer |
| add up verbe | additionner |
| fill up verbe | remplir |
| go up verbe | monter, s'élever |
| shut down verbe | éteindre |
La grammaire de cette vidéo
Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :
| Structure | Dans la vidéo |
|---|---|
| Phrases conditionnelles if + proposition, will/would + verbe — une condition et son résultat | if she finds money somewhere she will take |
| Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant | I've ever made · I've never seen · I've done |
| Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait | was filmed · will be arrested · is designed |
| Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chose | friend who is · people who are · west, which is |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 132 contractions et formes réduites, comme don't, I'm, you're. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « th »: myth /mɪθ/, wealthy /ˈwɛl.θi/
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: intentions /ɪnˈtɛnʃənz/, shout /ʃaʊt/, prescription /pɹəˈskɹɪp.ʃən/, intersection /ˈɪntəɹˌsɛkʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: disrespectful /dɪs.ɹɪˈspɛkt.fəl/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, intersection /ˈɪntəɹˌsɛkʃən/, patriotic /peɪ.tɹiˈɑ.tɪk/, electricity /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: horrible /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/, habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, helpful /ˈhɛlp.fl̩/, hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: bench /ˈbɛnt͡ʃ/, suggestion /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/, gigantic /d͡ʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/, paycheck /ˈpeɪ.t͡ʃɛk/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: horrible /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/, stressful /ˈstɹɛsfəl/, disrespectful /dɪs.ɹɪˈspɛkt.fəl/, warrant /ˈwɔɹənt/, grandma /ˈɡɹænmɑː/
Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo
- Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
- Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
- Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme ant, sue, consume.
Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?
Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.