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[insects chirping]
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[ducks flapping]
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[wind whistling]
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[slow music begins]
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[helicopter whirring]
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[bomb explodes]
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- [Shareef] These fields
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have witnessed the horrors of humanity.
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Ravaged by millennia of conflicts,
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[bomb explodes]
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Vietnam seemed perpetually
consumed by war and instability.
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But remarkably, in the
span of one generation
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since its reunification,
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Vietnam has managed to overcome
its existential struggles
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to rejoin the world stage.
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Known for magnificent landscapes,
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including the mystic
waters of Ha Long Bay,
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limestone mountains of Ninh Binh,
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and rugged terrains of Ha Giang,
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Vietnam now boasts dynamic cities
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that rival metropolises around the world.
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Driving this resurgence,
we find the Vietnamese people,
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seventy percent of whom
are under 35 years old.
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Thanks to the entrepreneurial
spirit of a new generation,
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Vietnam now ranks amongst
the fastest growing economies
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in the world.
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My name is Shareef.
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I'm an avid traveler
on a quest to showcase
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positive developments
in emerging countries.
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I'm fascinated by Vietnam's
evolution over the past decade,
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and I'm eager to find out
what's behind the energy
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and excitement of the Vietnamese people.
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I set out to explore the country,
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meeting people from exotic
neighborhoods in sprawling cities
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to the most remote rice
paddies and tea fields.
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Join me on this journey
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as we fast forward to modern day Vietnam
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to learn more and get inspired
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by remarkable people
from all walks of life.
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[horn honks]
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- [Thu] So I'm Vietnamese American.
I was born in Vietnam,
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and when I was ten years old,
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my whole family moved to the US.
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And so growing up in the US,
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I actually didn't know
much about Vietnam at all.
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And it wasn't until after
I ran into the story of Ho Chi Minh.
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- [Shareef] It's the break of dawn,
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but I'm already dodging
heavy scooter traffic
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as I meet Thu Nguyen,
a thriving entrepreneur
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who takes me on a jog
around Ho Chi Minh City.
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It's the most populous city in Vietnam
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with over nine million people,
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that's the size of
London or New York City.
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Previously known as Saigon,
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in 1975 it was renamed
in honor of Ho Chi Minh,
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leader of Vietnam's revolutionary
movement for independence.
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- [Thu] When he was 22, he left Vietnam.
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And, you know, he worked
as a cook on a boat
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to go to Europe because he wanted to know
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what the hell these
Westerners were talking about
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in terms of freedom and independence.
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And then eventually after
30 years he came back to Vietnam
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and fought for Vietnamese independence.
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So, when I read about that story,
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then I became more inspired
to learn more about Vietnam
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and to ask the question:
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"How can I contribute to Vietnam?"
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That was when I started
learning about Vietnam,
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about Vietnamese people,
how beautiful the country is,
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and how amazing and honest and kind
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and hospitable the people
are outside of the big city.
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In Vietnam, I think the statistic
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is that about 50% of Vietnamese households
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have small businesses.
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And that is how they survive,
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that's how they make their money.
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If you look back in history,
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Vietnamese have always been struggling
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and fighting for our independence, right?
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So that's naturally in the
desire of Vietnamese people,
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I feel always.
It's that we want to be independent.
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So that, being an entrepreneur
you get to control,
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you get to be in the driver's seat,
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you get to do things on your own terms.
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I think that those
who want to start a business,
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first of all, they want
to do the things they like
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to satisfy their passion.
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They want to create
their own career on their own feet.
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- Looking for some Vietnamese Zen,
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I visit a specialty tea house in Hanoi,
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founded by Tea Master Champion Hung Nguyen
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and his wife Hai Yen.
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- [Hung] Our tea path was very interesting
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There have been many failures
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but we got a thing.
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In the meantime
we had a stronger urge,
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a desire to achieve
what my mind envisioned.
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- We thought it's just in time
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because we also do believe
in the magical things in life,
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it sounds a little bit invisible.
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Like for example, the laws of attraction,
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like listening to the
signs from the universe.
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[cymbals clang]
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- [Hung] Hello everybody,
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I will conduct a sharing session about
the beauty of Vietnamese tea for you.
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And before starting
the tea ceremony today,
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I will do a small treatment
to balance your body and mind.
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[plays singing bowl]
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[insects chirping]
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[water splashing]
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- [Lien] In the morning, around 4:30,
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I wake up,
drink a cup of boiled water,
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and exercise.
[dogs barking]
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After that I lit up the fire.
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Cook for the pigs, the dogs,
the chickens, and for me.
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[chicken clucking]
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That's the morning.
Then I start gardening.
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Gardening, taking care of trees,
working on the field.
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These tea plants...
have been here for hundreds of years.
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But since I'm here,
I always drink from this fresh tea.
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- Do you remember since when,
what year was it?
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- I think... since I was a child,
I have seen this tea plant.
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But this garden...
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we are from the Youth Union,
we came here since 1972.
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I came here to dig this ditch,
and like the elders, we cultivate.
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They grow plants.
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Then later I bought this land
and I took care of them.
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- When did you take over?
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- When the agriculture reform took place,
each household managed some land.
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I bought it from the family
who managed the land here.
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In 1996 I came here.
It was wide open.
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They abandoned it,
it was widely vacant.
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- [Shareef] In 1975, the newly united
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communist government of Vietnam
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implemented a system
of collectivized farm cooperatives.
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Over time, the country gradually moved
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to a system of individually owned farms,
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and Lien Nguyen used
the agriculture reform
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to not only build a thriving tea farm,
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but also a lifestyle
I personally wish for.
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- [Lien] I didn't decide to move here.
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I came here to
build a farm, a business.
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I wanted to make money
to provide for my family back home.
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I came here to plant trees
but then I enjoyed living here more.
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Because I'm surrounded by nature.
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When we love trees,
they love us back.
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When we love something,
it loves us back.
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Living like this, it's peaceful.
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In here, it's quiet.
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I protect the environment.
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When I'm tired, I just look out the flower
garden with the birds and butterflies.
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It makes my body feel comfortable.
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When my mind is clear,
I work more efficiently.
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- This already splits,
one bud into two leaves.
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This branch will continue to grow.
It will grow two branches.
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[playing singing bowl]
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[machine whirring]
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- Every day I drink four
or five cups per day.
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I feel like really hard for me,
you know, to stop it
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because I think I got a
bit addicted with coffee.
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So I fell in love with coffee
when I was like four years old
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but my great-grandparents
were the first generation
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that led us to love coffee.
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- Why coffee?
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- Since like 1980,
the coffee become more popular,
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so, you know, a lot of farmers
started to cultivate coffee,
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especially in our area we
have like 99% growing coffee.
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In general, like coffee globally
in Vietnam is the second largest.
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- [Shareef] That's right.
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Over the last 30 years,
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Vietnam went from producing
very little coffee at all
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to becoming the second largest
coffee producer in the world.
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Rolan Colieng and
her brother Du Lick Moul
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are part of a growing
movement of farmers in Vietnam
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who specialize in
premium varieties of coffee.
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- We only grow Arabica coffee
so for this coffee is
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preferred high elevation,
also cool climate,
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compared to Robusta coffee
growing in low elevation
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and warmer climate as well.
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Most coffee grown in Vietnam
is Robusta coffee, which is more than 95%,
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but Arabica coffee is only 3 to 5%
so it's premium quality.
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-Arabica coffee?
-Yep.
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The flower lasts three to five days
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and then it becomes a tiny berry
like this as you can see.
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It takes the berry eight months for it
to grow from green to red, or
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from green to yellow depending
on different varieties too.
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So this is cascarati,
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the first layer of the cherry outer skin,
we use this part to make a tea, cascarati.
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- [Shareef] Oh, okay. One bean.
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- [DuLick] We have to prepare
200 grams of the green bean
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and when the bean is already dry
so actually very hard like a rock
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so you don't have to worry
you're going to break the bean.
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Going to sort all defective bean,
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the broken bean,
also the bean is very small.
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- Like a broken bean,
these are gone, the small bean
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so you are hand picking
all of these off.
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- So those beans, low quality,
will go to instant coffee.
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- Next time you drink instant coffee,
you know that,
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that's instant coffee right here.
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- [DuLick] So the more you roast coffee,
some flavored coffee will get burned,
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so darker roast is more bitter.
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And this is medium roast,
balanced acidity and bitterness,
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so people prefer medium roast more.
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It's good for like Espresso,
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American or French Press.
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And this one is light roast,
this keeps the most flavor
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of your coffee and easy to tell
how good is your coffee
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if you roast it light than
a medium or darker roast.
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- [Rolan] So actually,
six years ago this area
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was completely with the coffee plantations
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so we were so excited to continue work,
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so we worked so hard,
like all day and night
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we're working really hard
to help this area grow up,
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especially keeping all
of this coffee alive.
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With our cooperative,
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I am actually the one
who controls the quality
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and helps the farmers
how to do the process.
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But me, I followed my
dad since I was four.
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So, to be here, to work
with this cooperative
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and this organic coffee is my dream,
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and I think that God really
complete me with this dream.
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[playing singing bowl]
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[crickets chirping]
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- This is the actual rice
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that they put in the mud before and grow,
and then when they come back,
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each one of these is what
has to go in the rice fields
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to plant the rice.
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- How many bags of rice
can you get every season?
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- One season?
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This place can give ten bags.
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One bag is about 30 kilos.
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- So about 300 kilos of
rice in just this field.
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- Just this field.
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- [Farmer] For me, this is tradition,
from when I was 12 years old.
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My daughter just got married,
we held the wedding last month.
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- She's pregnant for how long?
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- Seven months.
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- [Shareef] So when I look,
I just see women.
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Where are the men?
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- Normally, only women work.
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If men understand, they work far away.
If not, they just stay at home and drink.
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- You still use a hand sickle?
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- [Farmer] Still use a sickle,
farmers here still use a sickle.
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Do they sell rice to other people
or just for this village?
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- [Interpreter] It's
just for their families.
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-This is just for their families?
-Yes.
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- Oh, okay. Wow.
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Psychologists believe
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that the backbreaking labor
required to cultivate rice
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has produced a distinctive
work ethic in countries
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that traditionally produce it.
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In Vietnam this rice culture
also extends to the sea,
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where fishermen struggle for a living
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in independently operated boats.
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Sometimes, I depart
at 4 or 5 pm this evening
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I can return by 4 or 5 am tomorrow.
I anchor at the dock.
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So about almost 12, 13 hours,
or 12, 14 hours.
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And then he comes back
and sells everything to the market.
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So you built this boat yourself?
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- [Fisherman] I bought it from someone
else in Hoian... brought it here.
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When I first bought it,
I fished with clap net.
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[engine whirring]
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Then I found it was not profitable,
not suitable for my wife.
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So I changed to this job.
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I saw this job,
catching small shrimp is right.
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I started to stick to it.
Follow this path.
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Are you planning on having another boat?
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Or this is your boat and
you're going to retire now?
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Yes, after this...
because I am quite old now.
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More than 50 years old.
I cannot do it anymore.
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I've been putting out to sea
since I was 13 years old.
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At that time, it was not an option
due to my family's financial difficulty.
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I left school to help my family.
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- [Van] I think the main reason for people
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at the moment to work hard
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because they need to survive.
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I understand that Vietnamese
people, especially women,
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they are very hard working,
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they do many different jobs to survive,
to take care of their children,
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take care of their families,
and even their parents too.
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- [Shareef] Van Dang is
a technology entrepreneur
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based in the capital city of Hanoi.
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In 2017, she was recognized by Forbes
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as one of 15 Global Leaders To Watch.
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- So, I was born in a small
town in the north of Vietnam.
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They are very poor over there.
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When I was seven years old,
I normally sell peanuts in the market.
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The reason that I do that because
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I think we need to survive.
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It might be strange for other people
in the modern countries
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that a seven year old girl
has to do that kind of work,
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but for us many children in Vietnam,
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especially in the countryside,
it's very normal work.
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So, some people told me that
I got entrepreneurship myself
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since I was small.
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- [Shareef] When Van was fourteen,
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her father bought a computer
to rent out to the local villagers,
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which gave Van a chance to
fall in love with computers
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at a young age.
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- So come back to when I was younger,
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I wanted to be a scientist,
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so I studied computer science
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and I believed that computer
science would bring me
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a lot of opportunities
to learn the new things.
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When I graduated high school,
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I was about to apply to four universities
and my dad told me that,
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you need to apply at
least one teaching school
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so I can become a teacher like my mom.
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[laughs]
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He really wanted me to become a teacher
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so I can have time for my kids.
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He said that I'm a girl,
I don't need to study hard.
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[laughs]
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- Just become a teacher and
a housewife, you're good to go.
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- But in four uni that I applied,
there's none about teaching school.
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- Wow.
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- Because I didn't like it at all,
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I don't want to be like my mom,
she worked so hard
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and she still hasn't got
many things that she wants.
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- [Huong] One day I talked
to my mother and asked her,
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how could you raise us up
by yourself being a farmer?
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So I think we're empowered
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and we have the role model
of our older generation.
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I think as a woman,
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I always wanted to have
my own family, that's the first thing.
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The second thing is I want
to create a bigger impact
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in the community.
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We try to also create an ecosystem
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to support young entrepreneurs
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but also women in particular.
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[soft music begins]
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- [Shareef] As reported by the World Bank,
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Vietnam has 73% female
workforce participation,
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a rate that surpasses
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many of the world's leading economies.
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Huong Dang is a passionate
social entrepreneur
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working on the front lines of
this social impact movement.
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- So, Koto is a social
enterprise in Vietnam.
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We run a training program
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for two years in hospitality operations.
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We have two restaurants,
one in Hanoi and one in Saigon.
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Over the last two years,
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we trained about nearly 1000 street kids
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and disadvantaged youth
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who are now the CEO of
a travel agent, restaurant owners,
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entrepreneurs, trainers.
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100% of our trainees get
jobs in five star hotels
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and in restaurants after
two years in the program.
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Apart from that,
I also started a social project
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called Hope Box,
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so it creates jobs for women
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who have escaped from domestic violence.
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I want to help other women
who have less opportunity,
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not just focusing on creating jobs
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but also raising awareness as well.
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We were born in a country
that everyone knows about,
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the number one thing they
know is about the war,
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and the second thing they
know is about pho the food.
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But us women we are empowered
by the old generation,
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our grandmother, our mother.
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- When I finished high school,
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I got a chance to go
to Australia to study,
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and when I come to Sydney,
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I talked about I'm from Vietnam
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and still many people didn't know
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where Vietnam is on the map.
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[laughs]
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And I studied the first semester
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in Hanoi National University before,
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which for me is very
big university already,
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and the number one uni in Vietnam
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but when I told my friends
in Sydney about my uni
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but no one know about my uni.
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[epic music begins]
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Why Vietnamese people when I think
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they are very hard working,
they are very smart,
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but they haven't been
recognized in other countries.
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And that question
go with me for a long time
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when I stayed there,
and even when I come back
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I still want to prove
that we can do the best,
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we can do a lot much
better than they think.
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- [Shareef] True to her word,
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Van returned home to Vietnam
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where she founded an
international technology company
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that employs Vietnamese engineers
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to build enterprise software
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for businesses around the world.
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- For me, I don't think tech is hard
as many other industries
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but people think that tech is hard.
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So I really want to send a message
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that tech is not hard at all
once you have fallen in love with it.
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Did you know that more than 100,000 people
graduate in IT every year?
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And I believe this number will grow more
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because we put the IT subject in school
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from primary now.
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- What are the real competitive
advantage in Vietnam?
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And I said, well we can grow anything.
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You just put stuff down
and it'll grow in Vietnam, right?
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Also, the tech industry,
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there's no barrier to entry, really.
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Vietnamese people are
already very tech savvy.
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And then the third piece is that
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everywhere in Vietnam
is beautiful, naturally.
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So when I look at the real
competitive advantage,
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I look at tourism,
technology and agriculture.
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So, at 22 years old, I said
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I want to help
build businesses in Vietnam
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because I wanted to contribute
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to economic independence and freedom.
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Everywhere in Vietnam people can visit
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and have an amazing time, right?
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Whether it's at the beaches,
or the mountains,
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or the rice patties.
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So I was telling people,
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get on a motorbike and go see Vietnam.
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And I find myself talking
to everybody like this,
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so then I recognized,
I'm like, that is it,
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that's where I should be
investing my time into,
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the tourism industry in Vietnam.
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- [Shareef] Tourism is a
big industry in Vietnam
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with over 18 million visitors in 2019,
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already four times as
many as a decade ago.
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As founder and CEO of a
top ranked travel company,
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Thu is building a platform
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that allows local micro entrepreneurs
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to benefit from the influx of visitors.
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We tried out his platform with Loan Vuong,
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a law student that moonlights
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as a freelance tour guide
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and offers visits to Ho Chi Minh City's
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historic Chinatown district
for one dollar.
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- [Loan] One dollar is
kind of enough in Vietnam
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for just a meal, snack.
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But it depends on my purpose.
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My purpose is...
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I want to improve my English
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and exchange knowledge,
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exchange culture with the foreign guests.
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I run a tour for one dollar
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because at that time
when I was a student
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I wanted to practice
listening and speaking skills.
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I want to meet more foreigners
and exchange everything,
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the knowledge, the culture, education,
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they want to know more about Vietnamese
so I can share with them,
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and I want to know more about
every country in this world.
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- So by building this tool,
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we're basically empowering people
to operate at the smallest scale,
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to work for themselves,
to run their own business.
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When you empower local businesses
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to participate in the tourism industry,
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that money stays in the local community
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and gets reinvested in the local community
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as opposed to getting extracted
outside of the community
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by an international company,
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and they pay people at the minimum wage,
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as little as possible to be
able to run the business,
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but most of the economic is
sucked outside of the country.
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Vietnamese startups need more philosophy.
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Thinking a little bit more about
the impact that they have in society,
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the kind of work that they enjoy doing,
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and how can they contribute to others
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and at the same time
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be able to build something
sustainable for themselves.
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- If you've got passion,
you can do everything.
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If you love, you can do everything.
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So nothing difficult in this life.
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If you never give up, working hard,
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love what you do,
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you can make everything
impossible become possible.
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And then you can be successful.
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- [Shareef] Outside Ho Chi Minh City,
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I meet Master Chef Tan,
a farmer working land
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that used to be an American
strategic bombing target.
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- [Chef] Do you know what is this?
This location we got, you know,
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a very big and complicated like
spider web of tunnels, 250 kilometers.
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That's why Americans put too much bombing
here because they wanted to control here.
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Because I put all the bombs up here,
on the surface nothing happened.
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But why do you see people
still got food to eat?
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00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,647
Where the food come from?
Welcome to this plant.
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Oh my God, helicopter come up,
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the tapioca tree gets broken,
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every base is broken like this,
a new plant come out.
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One plant like this,
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oh my God, four kilo of tapioca,
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00:27:15,507 --> 00:27:18,753
look after for people
a day like potatoes.
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00:27:20,464 --> 00:27:22,880
We sing a new song,
more bombs come up please,
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more tapioca it is,
more people survive.
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So we never worry for bombing
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because we stayed
underground for four to eight
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to twelve meters deep,
a bomb, B-52 whatever,
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doesn't affect it.
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This location,
160 million tons of bombs
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from Americans fell in here.
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I go to local people
to see, oh my God,
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it's all empty space.
How I do the farm?
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But I see one thing very potential.
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00:27:47,519 --> 00:27:50,753
Look out there, cow,
cow, cow, cow, and cow.
500
00:27:50,838 --> 00:27:53,242
What are cows eating?
Only one thing survived.
501
00:27:53,511 --> 00:27:54,853
It is the grass.
502
00:27:56,050 --> 00:27:58,347
That's why, we cannot eat them,
cows eat them.
503
00:27:58,562 --> 00:28:01,527
After cows eat, what happens to come out?
The poo comes out.
504
00:28:01,671 --> 00:28:02,703
[laughs]
505
00:28:02,808 --> 00:28:05,015
Then, with a location like that,
506
00:28:05,100 --> 00:28:08,378
with this way I go to local
people to buy cow poo,
507
00:28:08,729 --> 00:28:11,612
I put to the soil
to innovation for soil,
508
00:28:11,769 --> 00:28:14,031
then I can plant whatever I can.
509
00:28:14,390 --> 00:28:17,670
- So basically, you got
the manure, cow manure,
510
00:28:17,755 --> 00:28:20,275
you buy it somewhere to bring it here
511
00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:23,117
to enrich the soil to make
sure that it can grow plants.
512
00:28:23,202 --> 00:28:24,214
- Exactly.
513
00:28:24,390 --> 00:28:26,597
And then whenever we
start milking the cow,
514
00:28:26,682 --> 00:28:31,720
we open romantic music on.
No hip hop music, ah?
515
00:28:32,356 --> 00:28:35,079
Because for us we have no
machine like Americans.
516
00:28:35,583 --> 00:28:38,071
For us we got our hands to milk it up,
517
00:28:38,156 --> 00:28:41,044
so when we get romantic music,
our milk get more and more.
518
00:28:41,153 --> 00:28:43,123
One cow gets us 20 liters.
519
00:28:43,876 --> 00:28:47,087
Normally our local people only
get 15 liters but we got 20 liters
520
00:28:47,172 --> 00:28:49,833
because we are treating
the cows like people,
521
00:28:49,918 --> 00:28:52,259
making them happy,
they give us more benefits.
522
00:28:52,344 --> 00:28:54,098
Remember this one, very important.
523
00:28:54,684 --> 00:28:57,209
- [Shareef] Chef Tan has been
focused on expanding
524
00:28:57,294 --> 00:28:59,473
the farm to table concept in Vietnam.
525
00:28:59,942 --> 00:29:01,731
But he wasn't always a farmer.
526
00:29:02,723 --> 00:29:04,884
- 'Cause you know,
if you look at my career,
527
00:29:05,012 --> 00:29:07,063
you would think I'm the most crazy man.
528
00:29:07,148 --> 00:29:09,157
Because I am a doctor first.
529
00:29:09,524 --> 00:29:12,989
I'm qualified doctor on Vietnam on 1995.
530
00:29:13,637 --> 00:29:17,454
Be a bachelor accounting in 2000.
531
00:29:17,903 --> 00:29:19,368
Then a butcher.
532
00:29:19,833 --> 00:29:23,095
Then a Western chef in
Italian, French, American,
533
00:29:23,309 --> 00:29:24,778
and whatever cuisine Western.
534
00:29:25,118 --> 00:29:27,265
Then the Asian cooking channel,
535
00:29:27,350 --> 00:29:30,786
do a lot of Asian cooking channel.
Now I'm a farmer.
536
00:29:30,934 --> 00:29:32,177
No money, no honey.
537
00:29:32,305 --> 00:29:33,309
[Shareef laughs]
538
00:29:33,394 --> 00:29:35,553
People say farmer is stupid.
539
00:29:35,934 --> 00:29:37,501
And I want to confirm with you,
540
00:29:37,586 --> 00:29:39,509
no job is smarter than farmer.
541
00:29:40,150 --> 00:29:43,052
Farmer is the job of everything.
542
00:29:43,180 --> 00:29:45,001
They must be into science,
543
00:29:45,177 --> 00:29:46,587
because they must understand
544
00:29:46,688 --> 00:29:50,270
what the hell is going on
before they're planting.
545
00:29:50,692 --> 00:29:52,697
They must be very good marketer
546
00:29:52,782 --> 00:29:57,387
because they need to understand
what demands the customer
547
00:29:57,864 --> 00:29:59,278
before they're planting.
548
00:29:59,403 --> 00:30:01,571
They must be a good doctor
549
00:30:01,887 --> 00:30:04,462
because they need to kill
too many different insects
550
00:30:04,677 --> 00:30:07,864
and kill different viruses from
the animals when they get sick.
551
00:30:08,430 --> 00:30:11,465
They need to get very
good communication skills
552
00:30:11,708 --> 00:30:14,716
and leader skills to deal with
the people that have no brain.
553
00:30:14,801 --> 00:30:15,833
[laughs]
554
00:30:16,126 --> 00:30:18,677
Too much thing happens,
never an easy job.
555
00:30:19,704 --> 00:30:21,208
Welcome to my mushroom house.
556
00:30:21,293 --> 00:30:23,544
It's the magic house,
also the key thing
557
00:30:23,629 --> 00:30:25,747
for my farm to be
successful here as well.
558
00:30:26,380 --> 00:30:28,919
So we have DNA of oyster mushroom.
559
00:30:29,458 --> 00:30:32,884
You put tapioca stick,
coconut juice,
560
00:30:33,177 --> 00:30:35,520
gelatin, and vegetable powder,
561
00:30:35,723 --> 00:30:37,294
into the bottle like this size.
562
00:30:37,919 --> 00:30:41,434
Then we steam the bottle
in 120 degree in two hours,
563
00:30:41,821 --> 00:30:44,661
to kill bacteria,
to make some moist come up,
564
00:30:44,856 --> 00:30:47,317
and activate some good bacteria.
565
00:30:47,548 --> 00:30:51,365
After that, two weeks later,
the white bottle like this
566
00:30:51,450 --> 00:30:54,563
they will start to get
a mushroom come out.
567
00:30:56,344 --> 00:30:59,282
Then it will be big enough today,
tomorrow comes again.
568
00:30:59,723 --> 00:31:02,785
One bottle like this you know
how many kilos we're collecting?
569
00:31:02,870 --> 00:31:04,356
-How many?
-Twenty.
570
00:31:04,712 --> 00:31:07,325
How much cost the kilo in America?
What do you think?
571
00:31:07,481 --> 00:31:09,591
-A kilo of this?
-Oyster mushroom.
572
00:31:09,676 --> 00:31:12,286
- Oyster mushroom, pretty
expensive, say, 20 dollars.
573
00:31:12,371 --> 00:31:14,993
- Exactly. It's never cheaper
than 20 dollar a kilo.
574
00:31:15,078 --> 00:31:16,779
How much does it cost in Vietnam?
575
00:31:16,864 --> 00:31:17,993
Two dollars.
576
00:31:18,078 --> 00:31:19,970
How much a farmer like me we sell it?
577
00:31:20,290 --> 00:31:21,466
- Ah, one dollar?
578
00:31:21,558 --> 00:31:25,179
- No, I only got 10 cents
to maximum 20 cents.
579
00:31:25,595 --> 00:31:28,462
- So you only charge ten cents a kilo?
580
00:31:28,719 --> 00:31:30,368
-You know why?
-Why?
581
00:31:30,453 --> 00:31:33,059
- Because look at you the seller
you are so handsome,
582
00:31:33,144 --> 00:31:34,708
look at me farmer I'm too ugly.
583
00:31:34,793 --> 00:31:38,157
The ugly farmer like me cannot
sell it for the handsome farmer,
584
00:31:38,242 --> 00:31:42,045
we need to sell for the middleman,
middleman, middleman, seller and customer.
585
00:31:42,130 --> 00:31:44,642
When customer girl sees
the beautiful handsome boy,
586
00:31:44,730 --> 00:31:48,094
they pay whatever, farmer
working so hard we got nothing.
587
00:31:48,458 --> 00:31:51,315
Therefore I get back in Vietnam in 2011
588
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,380
and open the first concept in
the country, farm to table.
589
00:31:56,012 --> 00:31:58,700
My farm right now here is small,
590
00:31:59,032 --> 00:32:02,055
I provide 100 kilos mushroom a day,
591
00:32:02,294 --> 00:32:04,575
selling 10 cents to 20 cents,
592
00:32:04,660 --> 00:32:06,798
I got 10 dollars to 20 dollars a day,
593
00:32:06,883 --> 00:32:09,713
I won't have money to
pay for my family living.
594
00:32:10,552 --> 00:32:13,395
But I'm selling for the
customer one dollar,
595
00:32:13,528 --> 00:32:15,833
I got 100 dollars, I can pay for them.
596
00:32:16,509 --> 00:32:20,684
So farm to table is the
best idea for a small farm,
597
00:32:20,950 --> 00:32:23,494
who gets passionate
like me can survive for.
598
00:32:23,579 --> 00:32:26,744
[playing singing bowl]
599
00:32:42,742 --> 00:32:47,433
- [Hung] When I meditate, I see
very clearly that life is too short.
600
00:32:47,816 --> 00:32:52,153
So why are we continuing
to do a regular job
601
00:32:52,238 --> 00:32:54,585
and not having any happiness like that?
602
00:32:55,128 --> 00:33:00,652
At that time, I got married to my wife
and shared a lot with her.
603
00:33:01,015 --> 00:33:04,007
She told me to quit my job
and choose to do what I love.
604
00:33:05,022 --> 00:33:07,394
In Vietnam,
when you have a permanent job
605
00:33:07,953 --> 00:33:09,461
but you quit that
606
00:33:09,546 --> 00:33:12,316
to work in agriculture,
to grow lotus,
607
00:33:12,401 --> 00:33:15,871
you are considered
to be exceptionally insane.
608
00:33:16,265 --> 00:33:20,816
I went back to tell my family,
a lot of people protested
609
00:33:21,445 --> 00:33:22,968
because they worried about me.
610
00:33:23,292 --> 00:33:27,855
At that time it was quite hard
because we were expecting our first son.
611
00:33:28,355 --> 00:33:33,402
We both quit our jobs at the same time
and chose to follow tea.
612
00:33:34,179 --> 00:33:37,746
Incidentally, there was a contest
called Tea Master Cup.
613
00:33:38,238 --> 00:33:41,093
In 2016, it was held in Vietnam.
614
00:33:41,628 --> 00:33:46,249
We attended and were also
very lucky to be the champion.
615
00:33:46,953 --> 00:33:50,859
That was the turning point
to let us open a tea shop,
616
00:33:51,628 --> 00:33:58,374
and we have built it together everyday,
to create a unique kind of tea.
617
00:33:59,417 --> 00:34:01,824
The lotus is in the tea,
the tea is in the lotus.
618
00:34:02,042 --> 00:34:05,124
And when you drink tea,
you can feel the fragrance
619
00:34:05,209 --> 00:34:07,269
slowly spreads throughout your body.
620
00:34:07,847 --> 00:34:13,073
And at the moment that the tea, the lotus
and your body emanate together
621
00:34:13,158 --> 00:34:15,595
you will also become a lotus yourself.
622
00:34:15,834 --> 00:34:16,928
[cymbals clang]
623
00:34:17,271 --> 00:34:19,463
- [Shareef] So that was
kind of my question,
624
00:34:19,548 --> 00:34:22,291
is just the core of Vietnamese
culture and the people,
625
00:34:22,670 --> 00:34:24,201
I see it in the villages,
626
00:34:24,286 --> 00:34:26,443
I see it in the cities,
I see it everywhere,
627
00:34:26,537 --> 00:34:29,015
you know, where they
just start the business.
628
00:34:29,100 --> 00:34:32,995
And it's like that is not
normal in every other country,
629
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:37,035
you have to go to college, you have to
do this, you have to follow this process,
630
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,218
you have to follow these rules, right?
631
00:34:39,523 --> 00:34:42,175
Here it's like, no, I'm just
going to start something.
632
00:34:42,260 --> 00:34:45,230
What do you think in your opinion is that?
633
00:34:45,738 --> 00:34:48,062
Why does that happen
with Vietnamese people?
634
00:34:48,347 --> 00:34:52,409
- We just got the independence
about 44 years ago,
635
00:34:52,494 --> 00:34:57,520
so inside our blood, always
desire for the independence,
636
00:34:58,019 --> 00:35:03,080
the freedom,
and we're very brave people.
637
00:35:03,406 --> 00:35:05,863
So, like for example for us.
638
00:35:06,070 --> 00:35:07,070
[laughs]
639
00:35:07,257 --> 00:35:09,296
We just think: quit the job.
640
00:35:09,381 --> 00:35:12,402
Start something that we're
really passionate about,
641
00:35:12,487 --> 00:35:13,515
and we just do it.
642
00:35:13,847 --> 00:35:14,946
[calm music]
643
00:35:15,031 --> 00:35:16,867
- [Hung] Now I invite you to enjoy
644
00:35:16,952 --> 00:35:19,457
one of the most famous
type of tea in Vietnam.
645
00:35:19,542 --> 00:35:21,015
The lotus tea.
646
00:35:21,999 --> 00:35:26,222
In the past, this tea was only used by
the high classes of Vietnamese society.
647
00:35:26,370 --> 00:35:28,663
But nowadays,
thanks to economic development,
648
00:35:29,511 --> 00:35:31,929
this tea is becoming more popular.
649
00:35:33,081 --> 00:35:35,566
As you all know,
when it comes to Vietnamese tea,
650
00:35:35,652 --> 00:35:37,558
people immediately think of the lotus.
651
00:35:37,796 --> 00:35:40,446
The lotus is a symbol,
the national flower of Vietnam
652
00:35:40,531 --> 00:35:43,288
and also the symbol of Buddhism.
653
00:35:43,667 --> 00:35:47,124
At the beginning when we first
started, I told my wife:
654
00:35:47,542 --> 00:35:51,956
"Let's try to make lotus tea
exactly the way we understand it."
655
00:35:52,713 --> 00:35:59,202
We both usually had to wake up
very early, queueing at a lake,
656
00:35:59,995 --> 00:36:03,387
in order to get the lotuses
that have morning dew.
657
00:36:03,942 --> 00:36:08,153
In one kilo of lotus tea
we usually use up to 1400 lotuses.
658
00:36:08,856 --> 00:36:13,738
And the production process is very
sophisticated and careful,
659
00:36:13,914 --> 00:36:17,582
which requires the producers
to have a peaceful mind.
660
00:36:18,652 --> 00:36:21,047
We always lift the tea cup
with both hands,
661
00:36:21,715 --> 00:36:27,235
it shows our appreciation to nature
who has given to human
662
00:36:27,625 --> 00:36:29,153
such a precious tea product.
663
00:36:29,664 --> 00:36:35,985
And also to express gratitude to
the farmers, who worked hard,
664
00:36:36,977 --> 00:36:40,828
and made a lot of effort
to create such a high quality tea.
665
00:36:41,957 --> 00:36:43,856
- [Lien] I love drinking this tea.
666
00:36:44,500 --> 00:36:49,910
I don't use pesticide or herbicide,
I just dig them up in a primitive way.
667
00:36:50,485 --> 00:36:53,926
I turn over the soil
668
00:36:54,766 --> 00:36:58,996
and the chickens
also dig up dirt to find worms.
669
00:36:59,319 --> 00:37:01,813
That's all, there's no fertilizer.
670
00:37:02,414 --> 00:37:04,625
But I feel like drinking this tea,
671
00:37:04,710 --> 00:37:09,336
I'm not sure but
since I've arrived here
672
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:11,824
I rarely got sick.
673
00:37:12,289 --> 00:37:14,067
I still have the same weight.
674
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:18,668
My stamina since I was young
675
00:37:20,453 --> 00:37:21,828
I still keep it even now.
676
00:37:23,039 --> 00:37:25,783
- Food is the key thing
to make you survive.
677
00:37:26,770 --> 00:37:28,954
Good food makes you survive longer,
678
00:37:29,039 --> 00:37:31,774
enjoy your life better,
and do whatever you like.
679
00:37:31,859 --> 00:37:34,516
When you've got health you
can do everything you like.
680
00:37:34,601 --> 00:37:38,113
When you have no health and you've got
money, you cannot do everything.
681
00:37:38,198 --> 00:37:39,356
That's the big problem.
682
00:37:39,790 --> 00:37:42,305
- [Shareef] Chef Tan also
runs a culinary school
683
00:37:42,390 --> 00:37:44,395
on his farm where he trains chefs
684
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,093
from around the world
in Vietnamese cuisine.
685
00:37:48,314 --> 00:37:50,130
- Cooking with me is about life.
686
00:37:50,587 --> 00:37:52,411
Food, life is connected.
687
00:37:53,372 --> 00:37:58,032
People say man
handsome, power, strong,
688
00:37:58,119 --> 00:38:01,700
to protect the girl,
but is never romantic so much.
689
00:38:02,107 --> 00:38:05,233
So we say man is very salty.
690
00:38:06,403 --> 00:38:09,021
Salty for American man is different
691
00:38:09,106 --> 00:38:11,626
than Asian man,
different than Vietnamese man.
692
00:38:11,989 --> 00:38:14,860
American man or Western man we call salty
693
00:38:15,082 --> 00:38:17,337
but their salt is from sea salt.
694
00:38:17,935 --> 00:38:20,294
Salty of Asian is soy sauce.
695
00:38:20,607 --> 00:38:22,521
Salty of Vietnam is fish sauce.
696
00:38:22,606 --> 00:38:23,616
- [Shareef] Aah.
697
00:38:23,899 --> 00:38:25,815
- A man, can you stay single?
698
00:38:25,900 --> 00:38:27,064
No, you get married.
699
00:38:27,646 --> 00:38:29,903
We cannot stay single.
We need a lady.
700
00:38:30,485 --> 00:38:33,950
Who lady?
Beautiful, sexy, and sweet.
701
00:38:34,642 --> 00:38:38,365
Woman in Western can be honey, can be
pineapple juice, can be orange juice,
702
00:38:38,450 --> 00:38:39,915
but in Vietnam is sugar,
703
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:41,255
in Asian is sugar.
704
00:38:41,340 --> 00:38:42,649
So whatever you're cooking
705
00:38:42,734 --> 00:38:44,978
Western food, Asian food,
Vietnamese food,
706
00:38:45,063 --> 00:38:48,536
we need a man, we need a woman,
we need a salt, we need a sweet.
707
00:38:49,044 --> 00:38:51,630
Because different woman, different
country, different flavor, right?
708
00:38:51,715 --> 00:38:53,600
Different man, different
country, different flavor.
709
00:38:53,685 --> 00:38:55,669
They all salty, they all sweet,
but different flavor.
710
00:38:55,935 --> 00:38:58,845
So the first thing, we want to
mention about dipping sauce.
711
00:38:59,013 --> 00:39:00,923
We need man, we need woman.
712
00:39:01,458 --> 00:39:04,321
Dipping sauce is
something salt, it's appetizer.
713
00:39:04,427 --> 00:39:05,427
[Male Mmm]
714
00:39:05,512 --> 00:39:08,274
Like when you know a woman,
just know you start to love,
715
00:39:08,359 --> 00:39:09,384
[Female Mmm]
716
00:39:09,469 --> 00:39:11,415
you need to be understandable, right?
717
00:39:11,500 --> 00:39:13,170
We get engage, discover them,
718
00:39:13,255 --> 00:39:15,915
by going on dates,
whatever, to learn more.
719
00:39:16,107 --> 00:39:18,284
We need acidity, right?
720
00:39:18,670 --> 00:39:20,319
We need sour.
721
00:39:20,404 --> 00:39:22,011
- [Shareef] So you need acidity?
722
00:39:22,096 --> 00:39:23,280
- Yeah, sour.
723
00:39:23,417 --> 00:39:24,819
And then what happens after?
724
00:39:25,237 --> 00:39:26,978
This is just a time you know
725
00:39:27,063 --> 00:39:28,898
that you're not really in love yet.
726
00:39:28,983 --> 00:39:32,100
You just want to discover,
discover that lady or that man only.
727
00:39:32,276 --> 00:39:34,825
We need some lighter,
like enjoy, we need lighter,
728
00:39:34,910 --> 00:39:38,493
we need no flavor,
no color, we call water.
729
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:41,913
Then?
730
00:39:41,998 --> 00:39:43,979
Then, love is challenge.
731
00:39:44,064 --> 00:39:46,835
Challenge means spice.
We got spice.
732
00:39:47,636 --> 00:39:49,925
Easy?
Not every couple is fighting,
733
00:39:50,010 --> 00:39:51,845
some couples love, is just love,
734
00:39:51,930 --> 00:39:54,612
no fighting, no argument,
but some couples love spicy.
735
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:58,124
So whenever you make a dipping sauce
in Vietnamese, Western, Asian,
736
00:39:58,209 --> 00:40:01,090
we need one salt,
one man is one woman,
737
00:40:01,175 --> 00:40:04,518
one salt is one sweet,
is one sour, is one no.
738
00:40:04,761 --> 00:40:06,159
Everything equalized.
739
00:40:06,589 --> 00:40:08,870
Just spice is optional,
it's up to you.
740
00:40:08,955 --> 00:40:12,108
- [Shareef] It's up to you how much
spice you want in your life.
741
00:40:12,193 --> 00:40:14,374
Alright, now we're making the first dish.
742
00:40:14,507 --> 00:40:16,382
Asian people everything is balanced.
743
00:40:16,768 --> 00:40:18,875
Western people enjoy a single flavor,
744
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:20,577
too salty, too sweet, too sour.
745
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:24,694
Vietnamese cuisine is
different cuisine in the world
746
00:40:24,779 --> 00:40:27,823
because we got a fusion of
every cuisine in the world.
747
00:40:28,471 --> 00:40:31,241
Thus the people in Asia
always say one sentence:
748
00:40:31,987 --> 00:40:36,401
"Asian food look like cow
shit but flavor amazing,
749
00:40:36,870 --> 00:40:40,316
Western food look amazing
but flavor sometimes like cow shit."
750
00:40:40,401 --> 00:40:41,406
[laughs]
751
00:40:41,491 --> 00:40:43,400
So I want you to get a different idea.
752
00:40:43,485 --> 00:40:46,714
Asian people can look very pretty
and flavor can be amazing,
753
00:40:46,878 --> 00:40:48,866
and Western food also can do that too,
754
00:40:49,143 --> 00:40:52,264
it's a fusion and welcome
to Vietnamese cuisine.
755
00:40:53,436 --> 00:40:54,790
- [Lam] Everything is here.
756
00:40:54,875 --> 00:40:59,503
Vietnam, generally, can be
described in one word: cocktail.
757
00:40:59,588 --> 00:41:01,096
- What do you mean "cocktail"?
758
00:41:01,181 --> 00:41:04,386
- Cocktail. A little bit of different
flavors, everything is here.
759
00:41:05,128 --> 00:41:07,575
- [Shareef] To explore
Vietnamese food further,
760
00:41:07,660 --> 00:41:09,096
we meet up with Lam Thai,
761
00:41:09,396 --> 00:41:11,765
a local tour guide in Ho Chi Minh City
762
00:41:11,850 --> 00:41:14,360
with his own story of entrepreneurship.
763
00:41:14,522 --> 00:41:18,596
- [Lam] In the early 2000s, at the time
that motorbikes were imported to Vietnam,
764
00:41:18,681 --> 00:41:22,465
we started to have the
first few foreigners.
765
00:41:22,550 --> 00:41:24,344
At that time,
I thought that English
766
00:41:24,429 --> 00:41:28,886
could be a perfect tool to
communicate and work with people
767
00:41:29,487 --> 00:41:30,741
from all over the world.
768
00:41:31,377 --> 00:41:35,839
Actually, I worked for a small tour agency
organizing adventurous tours.
769
00:41:35,924 --> 00:41:39,292
- And then at one point you said,
I'm just going to work for myself.
770
00:41:39,764 --> 00:41:44,635
- Yes, when clients and tourists
771
00:41:44,720 --> 00:41:46,665
want to have different things
772
00:41:46,750 --> 00:41:51,750
away from the written tracks
of the tour agencies,
773
00:41:52,307 --> 00:41:55,339
so I'm ready to tailor for
them whatever they want,
774
00:41:55,608 --> 00:41:59,249
to meet their desire, their
expectation of what they want to see.
775
00:41:59,910 --> 00:42:02,370
We eat a lot of rice,
we cannot live without rice.
776
00:42:02,455 --> 00:42:04,578
So the stuff that is rice and water,
777
00:42:04,663 --> 00:42:05,893
we call banh canh.
778
00:42:05,978 --> 00:42:10,055
That's a quail egg and
that's a chicken egg.
779
00:42:10,140 --> 00:42:13,870
Quail egg, one, two, three, four,
and another four chicken eggs.
780
00:42:14,647 --> 00:42:18,456
- Is she going to eat with us? Because
there's no way I can eat all of this.
781
00:42:18,541 --> 00:42:19,542
[laughs]
782
00:42:19,780 --> 00:42:22,651
- At the top,
that is deep fried pig fat
783
00:42:22,796 --> 00:42:25,218
and scallions also for flavor.
784
00:42:26,085 --> 00:42:28,616
Cuisine and local cultures
785
00:42:29,007 --> 00:42:31,089
can be very well influenced by
786
00:42:31,257 --> 00:42:33,710
the way they eat,
the way they talk to each other,
787
00:42:34,007 --> 00:42:36,073
the way they behave to each other.
788
00:42:36,410 --> 00:42:39,542
So, I treat you today
how Vietnamese people eat,
789
00:42:39,820 --> 00:42:43,268
what we eat every day,
or at least how is our cuisine.
790
00:42:44,538 --> 00:42:46,995
- [Shareef] Over 50% of
Vietnamese households
791
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:48,725
have small businesses,
792
00:42:48,866 --> 00:42:52,823
many of which are food carts
that form Vietnam's vibrant,
793
00:42:53,268 --> 00:42:56,473
and sometimes crazy,
street food scene.
794
00:42:57,900 --> 00:43:01,589
So, Lam, this looks like
a very interesting dish,
795
00:43:01,906 --> 00:43:03,703
it's kind of scary almost to me,
796
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,179
especially from what's inside.
797
00:43:06,734 --> 00:43:10,245
- [Lam] These are all
the organs of the cow.
798
00:43:10,330 --> 00:43:12,992
- [Shareef] The intestines
and the stomach of the cow.
799
00:43:13,077 --> 00:43:15,793
Would you call this
the stomach soup of the cow, right?
800
00:43:16,195 --> 00:43:20,985
- We call it pha lau, according
to the Chinese Cantonese.
801
00:43:21,070 --> 00:43:24,484
- So why don't you try the stomach first
before I get a heart attack?
802
00:43:24,569 --> 00:43:25,621
[laughs]
803
00:43:25,706 --> 00:43:27,261
-Okay.
-Let's give it a shot.
804
00:43:28,011 --> 00:43:31,589
Wow, wow, that's a lot of flavor.
805
00:43:31,996 --> 00:43:35,242
Okay. So the one I'm afraid of the most,
806
00:43:35,511 --> 00:43:37,763
I think, is this intestine thing.
807
00:43:38,585 --> 00:43:40,586
- [Lam] Don't be lazy, be crazy.
808
00:43:40,707 --> 00:43:41,797
[laughs]
809
00:43:41,882 --> 00:43:43,547
- Oh man.
Okay, it's not that bad.
810
00:43:45,347 --> 00:43:48,277
- So experience the differences
to enrich your life.
811
00:43:48,562 --> 00:43:50,730
You're enriched now,
man, after taking that.
812
00:43:50,815 --> 00:43:52,215
- I've been enriched.
813
00:43:52,300 --> 00:43:55,070
I have the intestine of
the cow in my stomach.
814
00:43:55,155 --> 00:43:56,219
[laughs]
815
00:43:56,676 --> 00:43:58,284
- [Lam] So this is the testicle.
816
00:43:58,369 --> 00:44:00,023
- [Shareef] This is the testicle.
817
00:44:00,108 --> 00:44:02,609
- [Lam] And this is the tool,
the gun, the shotgun.
818
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,839
- Ah dude, I feel like when I watch it,
819
00:44:04,924 --> 00:44:08,257
it feels like aah,
I'm going like this,
820
00:44:08,350 --> 00:44:10,206
like oh God, no, no, no.
821
00:44:10,291 --> 00:44:11,558
[laughs]
822
00:44:11,765 --> 00:44:12,837
You don't feel it?
823
00:44:12,922 --> 00:44:14,293
It's like ugh, dude.
824
00:44:14,378 --> 00:44:16,589
-[Lam] Ah, no.
I'm looking, I'm just looking.
825
00:44:16,674 --> 00:44:19,086
- [Shareef] I guess
you have balls of steel then.
826
00:44:19,171 --> 00:44:23,039
Baby spinach with goat
penis and lotus roots.
827
00:44:23,124 --> 00:44:24,371
Who invented that?
828
00:44:24,617 --> 00:44:27,226
- [Lam] One of the reasons
we have 96 million people.
829
00:44:27,311 --> 00:44:28,964
Makes you strong on bed.
[laughs]
830
00:44:29,049 --> 00:44:30,367
- Yes, of goat penis soup.
831
00:44:31,703 --> 00:44:35,531
Man, I'm just going to swallow that penis
because it's a little chewy.
832
00:44:38,695 --> 00:44:41,172
Ah, man you gotta
help me, one chicken feet.
833
00:44:41,711 --> 00:44:42,925
- [Lam] One chicken ass.
834
00:44:43,234 --> 00:44:44,738
- [Shareef] It's really fatty.
835
00:44:44,953 --> 00:44:46,240
- Every ass has fat.
836
00:44:46,551 --> 00:44:47,551
[laughs]
837
00:44:48,916 --> 00:44:49,987
Right?
838
00:44:50,928 --> 00:44:52,341
- [Shareef] As it turns out,
839
00:44:52,426 --> 00:44:54,277
the nightlife in Ho Chi Minh City
840
00:44:54,362 --> 00:44:56,675
is as vibrant as its street food scene.
841
00:44:57,632 --> 00:45:00,347
I walk into an intimate live music venue
842
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,359
where I am intrigued by
a unique performance.
843
00:45:03,749 --> 00:45:08,925
[violin playing with live rock band]
844
00:45:32,355 --> 00:45:34,415
This genre-bending music venue
845
00:45:34,500 --> 00:45:36,713
is the brainchild of Le Quang Minh.
846
00:45:37,730 --> 00:45:39,645
- My parents wanted me to be a lawyer.
847
00:45:39,730 --> 00:45:41,622
- Of course. Not a doctor?
848
00:45:41,707 --> 00:45:42,972
[laughs]
849
00:45:43,085 --> 00:45:44,393
- Okay, lawyer, I'm okay.
850
00:45:44,478 --> 00:45:48,135
But I love music, so I
passed an examination
851
00:45:48,220 --> 00:45:50,284
with high score in conservatory
852
00:45:50,421 --> 00:45:53,531
and I get a scholarship about
drumming because I'm a drummer.
853
00:45:54,171 --> 00:45:56,808
I learned in three
universities at the same time:
854
00:45:57,542 --> 00:46:01,187
lawyer for my parents, music
and graphic design for myself.
855
00:46:01,323 --> 00:46:02,554
[laughs]
856
00:46:03,007 --> 00:46:06,730
- I got to make my mom and dad happy,
and then I have to make myself happy.
857
00:46:06,815 --> 00:46:08,073
- Yeah.
[laughs]
858
00:46:08,721 --> 00:46:12,409
I made a band in high
school called Little Wings.
859
00:46:12,494 --> 00:46:14,866
We followed Red Hot Chili
Peppers and Green Day,
860
00:46:14,975 --> 00:46:20,838
and in 1997, I composed an
English song by acoustic sound.
861
00:46:21,343 --> 00:46:23,102
We're champions in this prize,
862
00:46:23,187 --> 00:46:25,025
it's very big, like a bands idol,
863
00:46:25,110 --> 00:46:26,949
Vietnam's idol, something like that.
864
00:46:27,034 --> 00:46:29,886
-Ah, it's like American Idol.
-Yeah, like American Idol.
865
00:46:30,300 --> 00:46:33,081
After this prize we
started to play in the bar.
866
00:46:33,327 --> 00:46:36,288
Recording music and
advertising is in the day time,
867
00:46:36,698 --> 00:46:39,558
and playing music in the
bar is my night time.
868
00:46:39,972 --> 00:46:41,629
- Wow, two jobs every day.
869
00:46:41,714 --> 00:46:43,175
- Two jobs every day.
870
00:46:43,260 --> 00:46:47,666
And at 2006, I think,
okay, I played music
871
00:46:47,751 --> 00:46:49,452
over ten years at the bars,
872
00:46:49,859 --> 00:46:52,460
why I don't open my own bar
to play the music I want?
873
00:46:52,900 --> 00:46:56,390
So I opened a bar first,
I want to do different.
874
00:46:57,249 --> 00:46:59,765
You see, I'm explaining
to you, music is music.
875
00:47:00,210 --> 00:47:02,238
Maybe you play Britney Spears
876
00:47:02,378 --> 00:47:04,230
and people that like Britney go aaah,
877
00:47:04,464 --> 00:47:07,667
and you play Led Zeppelin
and people over here love Led Zeppelin.
878
00:47:08,624 --> 00:47:11,800
And the people that like
Britney Spears they doubt,
879
00:47:11,889 --> 00:47:14,494
oh what kind is this song,
maybe this is a good song.
880
00:47:14,691 --> 00:47:16,913
And, from my opinion,
881
00:47:17,952 --> 00:47:20,878
I'm bringing the rock music
not to the rock people,
882
00:47:22,495 --> 00:47:25,865
I'm bringing the rock
music to another people
883
00:47:25,950 --> 00:47:29,011
that don't like rock music
but feel they love from rock music.
884
00:47:29,874 --> 00:47:31,886
But if you play a lot of kinds of music,
885
00:47:31,999 --> 00:47:33,972
in the whole room the people can enjoy,
886
00:47:34,136 --> 00:47:37,593
and people can recognize,
oh maybe rock music is nice.
887
00:47:38,223 --> 00:47:43,223
[violin playing with live rock band]
888
00:47:47,237 --> 00:47:51,338
- [Anh] I am currently working
at the Ho Chi Minh City orchestra
889
00:47:51,909 --> 00:47:57,217
and every night on weekends,
I perform at the Acoustic Bar.
890
00:47:57,502 --> 00:48:00,686
And this place is like my second home.
891
00:48:01,779 --> 00:48:05,196
[band continues playing]
892
00:48:15,726 --> 00:48:21,085
- I think that everyone only sees
the violin as a classical instrument.
893
00:48:21,573 --> 00:48:25,956
But I want to pursue a modern style.
894
00:48:26,354 --> 00:48:30,519
And I want to combine
the violin with the band
895
00:48:31,050 --> 00:48:34,425
to perform a wilder style.
896
00:48:36,976 --> 00:48:42,558
In the future, we can unite them to create
a new style called rock symphony.
897
00:48:43,003 --> 00:48:47,393
We can perform with both
the rock band and the orchestra.
898
00:48:51,093 --> 00:48:54,863
This place makes me feel excited
whenever I have a performance
899
00:48:54,948 --> 00:48:58,397
and inspires me the most.
900
00:48:59,921 --> 00:49:01,686
- [Minh] You know, everything I do,
901
00:49:01,771 --> 00:49:05,453
I want to bring like the
good music, like the real music.
902
00:49:06,410 --> 00:49:09,116
- So what you're doing is,
you're basically introducing
903
00:49:09,201 --> 00:49:11,075
different genres of music
904
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,765
to each other so they can appreciate it.
905
00:49:13,850 --> 00:49:16,175
- Yeah. Firstly, I need to
make all the people
906
00:49:16,260 --> 00:49:17,769
love this place first,
907
00:49:18,292 --> 00:49:23,620
and secondly I put some old
school and real music inside.
908
00:49:24,128 --> 00:49:25,901
Because business is business.
909
00:49:26,261 --> 00:49:31,038
We have to find a way for
music to bring good emotions
910
00:49:31,172 --> 00:49:36,659
and make the people feel no
stress, happy, smiling by music.
911
00:49:38,830 --> 00:49:41,355
- I rather figure out
how to build a business
912
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:42,620
that stands on its own,
913
00:49:43,030 --> 00:49:45,097
that empowers people in a sustainable way
914
00:49:45,382 --> 00:49:47,479
and helping people to work for themselves
915
00:49:47,905 --> 00:49:50,555
and then as a result making
the world a better place,
916
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:53,206
contributing to their local
community and society.
917
00:49:54,126 --> 00:49:56,266
- [Huong] It's a life
transforming journey.
918
00:49:56,355 --> 00:49:59,508
It's not just giving
someone a fish to eat today
919
00:49:59,593 --> 00:50:01,351
but also teaching them how to fish.
920
00:50:02,155 --> 00:50:04,210
Koto is always based on the philosophy
921
00:50:04,295 --> 00:50:05,464
of know one, teach one.
922
00:50:05,585 --> 00:50:07,620
If you know one
thing, you can teach one thing.
923
00:50:07,705 --> 00:50:09,440
If you know one person,
you can teach one person.
924
00:50:09,525 --> 00:50:11,445
You don't have to wait
until you have everything.
925
00:50:11,530 --> 00:50:14,635
So I became a Koto trainee in 2006
926
00:50:14,720 --> 00:50:16,296
and graduated from the program.
927
00:50:16,866 --> 00:50:18,679
As part of my sense of giving back,
928
00:50:18,890 --> 00:50:21,000
I always wanted to contribute my knowledge
929
00:50:21,085 --> 00:50:23,757
and skills into the organization
that changed my life.
930
00:50:24,366 --> 00:50:26,675
I was born in a very
small village of Vietnam
931
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,503
in the northwest and my
mom was a single mom.
932
00:50:30,030 --> 00:50:31,894
One day when I finished year seven,
933
00:50:31,979 --> 00:50:35,597
I realized that my mom was
facing a kidney infection
934
00:50:35,683 --> 00:50:38,944
and she was very, very sick
so I decided to leave school
935
00:50:39,081 --> 00:50:42,925
and then I went to Hanoi
to work and earn money.
936
00:50:43,499 --> 00:50:44,706
- At age twelve?
937
00:50:45,007 --> 00:50:46,595
- At age twelve, yes.
938
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:50,054
I literally left home at age
twelve for the first time
939
00:50:50,139 --> 00:50:51,545
living far away from my mom,
940
00:50:51,630 --> 00:50:53,700
and Hanoi is the capital city of Vietnam.
941
00:50:53,785 --> 00:50:54,925
It was so busy.
942
00:50:55,010 --> 00:50:57,180
It was totally different
to my countryside.
943
00:50:57,593 --> 00:51:01,030
I looked after a four month old
baby boy, doing babysitting
944
00:51:01,272 --> 00:51:04,073
and it was like a baby
looking after another baby.
945
00:51:04,616 --> 00:51:07,714
So I earned about ten
dollars back then per month,
946
00:51:07,847 --> 00:51:10,515
working hard from 6 a.m
to 12 a.m the next day.
947
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:13,054
With that entire money,
I sent back to my mom
948
00:51:13,382 --> 00:51:15,035
to help my brother and my sister
949
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:18,921
remain at school and help her
a little bit with her health problem.
950
00:51:19,656 --> 00:51:24,135
At that time, girls from 16
to 18 in the countryside,
951
00:51:24,220 --> 00:51:26,769
they ask to get married
so I saw all the women
952
00:51:26,862 --> 00:51:29,984
getting married, having kids,
working hard on the farm,
953
00:51:30,072 --> 00:51:32,678
being domestic violence
and all those sorts of stuff.
954
00:51:32,763 --> 00:51:34,953
And somehow, I decided that wasn't my life
955
00:51:35,290 --> 00:51:38,199
so I chose to stay in Hanoi by myself
956
00:51:38,284 --> 00:51:41,710
and there was no family, no
relatives, no friends in Hanoi.
957
00:51:42,562 --> 00:51:43,810
So I became a street kid
958
00:51:44,718 --> 00:51:48,305
and I ended up living most
of my time on the streets
959
00:51:48,390 --> 00:51:52,812
and living under the
staircase of a landlord
960
00:51:53,859 --> 00:51:57,375
and I was treated very
badly by the local people.
961
00:51:57,460 --> 00:52:00,464
They took all my money
and didn't give me anything in return.
962
00:52:00,636 --> 00:52:02,915
When I looked for a job
and without education,
963
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:04,545
I couldn't do anything.
964
00:52:04,630 --> 00:52:06,435
So, I decided to go back to school
965
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:09,085
for more education training at nighttime.
966
00:52:09,706 --> 00:52:12,265
I cooked sticky rice every 2 a.m morning,
967
00:52:12,350 --> 00:52:13,562
sold it on the street,
968
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:15,560
working as a cleaner during the day
969
00:52:15,645 --> 00:52:17,885
and sold cake in the afternoon
970
00:52:17,970 --> 00:52:20,097
and at night I went to study
971
00:52:20,417 --> 00:52:22,890
and came back to sell
cake in the street again.
972
00:52:22,975 --> 00:52:25,545
So basically, every day
I managed to have
973
00:52:25,630 --> 00:52:27,935
only two hours of sleeping.
974
00:52:28,020 --> 00:52:30,550
Don't know how I did it back then
975
00:52:31,109 --> 00:52:35,000
but life back then was very dark.
976
00:52:35,273 --> 00:52:38,445
It was like gray,
no hope, no future.
977
00:52:38,530 --> 00:52:41,527
I didn't know what
direction I headed up to.
978
00:52:43,023 --> 00:52:44,916
But just one thing I knew,
979
00:52:45,001 --> 00:52:49,714
that education would somehow
one day change my case.
980
00:52:50,140 --> 00:52:52,613
So I came and visited Koto,
I checked it out first
981
00:52:52,698 --> 00:52:54,355
and that's what changed my life.
982
00:52:54,726 --> 00:52:56,105
After finishing Koto,
983
00:52:56,190 --> 00:52:59,609
I was offered a job at the
Intercontinental Hotel Group
984
00:52:59,867 --> 00:53:02,574
so I worked as a waitress
there for nearly three years
985
00:53:02,878 --> 00:53:06,285
and then I came back to
Koto as marketing officer.
986
00:53:06,580 --> 00:53:09,510
Then two and a half years later
I was offered a scholarship
987
00:53:09,595 --> 00:53:11,074
to go to Australia to study.
988
00:53:11,429 --> 00:53:13,183
You know, working from the streets,
989
00:53:13,268 --> 00:53:15,900
I never knew that one
day I could go overseas,
990
00:53:15,985 --> 00:53:19,296
it opened up a whole
lot of opportunities for me.
991
00:53:19,523 --> 00:53:23,038
- Why do you think Vietnamese people
in general are so entrepreneurial?
992
00:53:23,123 --> 00:53:27,570
- I think because Vietnam
now is not too regulated
993
00:53:29,078 --> 00:53:33,074
and the opportunities are
out there in every corner
994
00:53:33,402 --> 00:53:35,402
so everyone here is an entrepreneur.
995
00:53:36,468 --> 00:53:39,140
I was an entrepreneur
selling sticky rice before.
996
00:53:39,225 --> 00:53:40,249
[laughs]
997
00:53:41,191 --> 00:53:45,515
- [Shareef] They say Vietnam is
the land of a million smiles.
998
00:53:46,495 --> 00:53:48,402
- People are really happy and curious.
999
00:53:48,487 --> 00:53:51,390
They're very inviting, and
I think that is natural
1000
00:53:51,761 --> 00:53:54,031
of Vietnamese people across the country.
1001
00:53:54,308 --> 00:53:57,558
- I think that Vietnamese
people are very brave
1002
00:53:57,874 --> 00:54:00,950
and they always desire for their freedom
1003
00:54:01,878 --> 00:54:05,831
because we've been in the
past, for countless wars.
1004
00:54:06,312 --> 00:54:10,085
- Fortunately, as people say
about the law of attraction,
1005
00:54:10,570 --> 00:54:16,335
when giving goodwill,
there will be corresponding frequencies.
1006
00:54:16,796 --> 00:54:20,000
When I meditate,
I can see myself clearer,
1007
00:54:20,292 --> 00:54:23,625
which means doing something
that is truly meaningful in our lives.
1008
00:54:24,210 --> 00:54:26,554
- In this life, nothing impossible.
1009
00:54:26,639 --> 00:54:29,390
Everything impossible can become possible.
1010
00:54:29,730 --> 00:54:31,723
- We have a very good community here
1011
00:54:31,808 --> 00:54:33,110
where we help each other
1012
00:54:34,167 --> 00:54:37,183
because I can be good at some points
1013
00:54:37,402 --> 00:54:40,675
but I must need help at
some other points too.
1014
00:54:40,882 --> 00:54:43,650
- There are so much
opportunities for everyone
1015
00:54:43,735 --> 00:54:45,683
but women, you know, they take it.
1016
00:54:45,968 --> 00:54:49,671
Like myself, we seize the opportunity
and we take it and we have the tools.
1017
00:54:50,011 --> 00:54:52,413
- Even like, you know,
I tell the band singer,
1018
00:54:52,498 --> 00:54:54,725
Vietnamese people, if
you learn a cover song,
1019
00:54:54,810 --> 00:54:57,960
you need to know about
the meaning of the song
1020
00:54:58,175 --> 00:55:01,339
because if you know the meaning
of the song, you sing very good.
1021
00:55:01,445 --> 00:55:03,628
You put the meaning of
the song in your life
1022
00:55:03,777 --> 00:55:06,011
and you sing like by your heart.
1023
00:55:07,105 --> 00:55:09,019
- [Shareef] From the energetic farmers
1024
00:55:10,350 --> 00:55:12,350
to the ambitious entrepreneurs
1025
00:55:13,390 --> 00:55:17,783
to the dreamers still building
on a majestic culture.
1026
00:55:19,468 --> 00:55:23,402
Their remarkable
human stories have inspired me
1027
00:55:23,886 --> 00:55:28,480
to follow my own dreams
wherever they may lead.
1028
00:55:30,234 --> 00:55:32,995
- And the young people, it's just amazing.
1029
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:37,025
They just want to move on
and be able to build the country
1030
00:55:37,110 --> 00:55:38,960
that Vietnam should have always been.
1031
00:55:39,269 --> 00:55:41,675
- I am a Vietnamese woman.
1032
00:55:42,562 --> 00:55:45,792
I always have the love
of my homeland, my country.
1033
00:55:47,692 --> 00:55:50,859
[gentle music begins]
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