Episode 40 of the Saigoneer Podcast is available now!
This week's show features an extended conversation about superstitions (1:10), both Vietnamese and western. We also play a game where we guess which ones are real, and which are not. For example, according to Tet tradition, are women allowed to enter a house first on New Year's Day? Do Americans throw salt over their right shoulder after spilling it?
Our interview guest (21:29) is Parag Khanna, the international relations analyst and author of the new book The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century. We talked about how Asian countries are reconnecting in the post-colonial era, and what this means for Vietnam, among other topics.
As always, we close with Bánh Mì Banter (48:26).
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