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Thuy Duong discusses the unique migration patterns of the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic and the impact on Vietnam's billionaires' education.

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 states. This unique history created an elite class of European-educated scholars who went on to found Vietnam's largest multi-billion-dollar conglomerates (like VinGroup and FTP). Thuy pulls no punches as she details the subtle systemic prejudices within Czech society, the brutal generational trauma of the northern con dâu (daughter-in-law) matrix, and how her upcoming June 2026 art exhibition, Little Hanoi: Next Generation, is completely shifting how Europe views its Asian minority. Inside this transnational sidewalk cafe exploration: The Billionaire Pipeline: Why Vietnam’s top tech and real…

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