[M-Mazigian]

I like wearing acrylic nails and have noticed that, regardless of what city I am in, a huge percentage of sculptured nail salons (with the most skillful technicians, I might add) belong to Vietnamese proprieters. Why is that? Also, how does one pronounce the surnames of Ng and Ngu?

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Name : M-Mazigian, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 35, City : Venice, State : FL, Country : United States, 

[Kim-W]

My mother is Vietnamese, and some of her friends work in the nail salon business. When I asked her why this is so prevalent, she said it is a way to make a living without having to speak a lot of English, since many of these nail salon owners are recent immigrants who know very little English.

Also, to pronounce the most common Vietnamese last name (Nguyen) semi-accurately, you can say “win”. But, that’s semi-accurate – Vietnamese is an extremely tonal language.

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Name : Kim-W, Gender : F, Race : Asian, Religion : Unitarian, Age : 20, City : Tampa, State : FL, Country : United States, Occupation : College student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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