Viet Thanh Nguyen
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1,011 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 7 May
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So I watched all that very intimately growing up.
That was a lesson that I learned.
I came out an atheist, so perhaps from one perspective, my parents utterly failed.
But everything else that they represented to me through the model of their own lives, suffering, endurance, discipline, sacrifice, that
has stayed with me because you know why?
They lived what they preached.
They were not hypocrites.
That is such a powerful experience to grow up with as a child to realize that your parents are actually everything they said that they were and that they're genuine, they're authentic.
They may be hard on you, but they're not hypocrites.
They're not fakes.
They did everything they said that they should do and that I should do.
My parents never realized they were raising one of the most dangerous creatures you can find in your house, a writer.
No, I mean, they valued education above everything.
So I give my parents credit.
They were very conservative people.
But they let me do a PhD in English because it has the word doctorate in it.
My brother had gotten his medical doctorate.
That was what they wanted.
But they thought, okay, okay, fine.
Philosophy doctorate is kind of close to that.
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