Kai Risdahl

Come on in.

Oh wait, is there class actually happening?

I don't want to interrupt class.

So no, we're not interrupting class.

There were rows of salon-style chairs, there was a hair-washing station, and students with their eyes focused right up front.

Hi, sorry, I don't want to interrupt.

I'm really sorry.

Upstairs, we saw students putting that schooling into practice.

Man, waxing the eyebrows?

Yes.

Oh, God.

And we got a whiff of the manicuring class.

Oh, you can smell the nail polish, man.

In the almost 40 years that this school has been operating, around 50,000 students have come through.

There's some statistic like 50% of the nail technicians in this economy are Vietnamese, right?

uh... can we talk for a second about uh... the mean is diaspora here right the the economic engine that this place is as a release now what's happening in vietnam right which it which is a uh... uh... rising global economic power how much you guys think about that right and and the roots

So that's one story about the economic relationship between the U.S.

and Vietnam today.

Businesses here, hiring workers there.

But you want to talk about generational change here in Little Saigon?