That says it all.
Just because his mom or dad may have been mixed or fully Chinese does not mean he is not partly Vietnamese. Of course, we say he's Asian because we want to attach to his fame. But he is Vietnamese in origin just because he was born on Vietnamese soil.
I don't take the statements by those Vietnamese leaders to be very unbiased. Obviously, they deem one who doesn't live in the motherland as non-Vietnamese just because of political
markings. In that sense, Quan is American. But we are referring to birth origin here.
Michelle Yeoh may also be Chinese blood but was born in Malaysia. She deems herself Malaysian, even though the world's over 2 billion of Chinese take her as Chinese. Malaysians take her as Malaysian. In America, we take her as Asian-American or simply as Asian.
say what again? You think he's viet?
Even the Viet government disagreed with you.
""He [Ke Huy Quan] is not of Vietnamese descent, he is just Chinese-Vietnamese and was born in Vietnam. We have to make that clear," wrote one person on the BBC Vietnamese Facebook page.
"They should write very clearly that he is Chinese-American, that he used to have Vietnamese nationality! I cannot not see any "Vietnamese origin" here?" wrote another."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64963161