If David Lam says he is Vietnamese, I don't care who says he is not.

Did he say that? If he does, it still does not make him a Vietnamese because he's a Chinese. Let's say if I was born and live in Germany in my entire life (which is even better than Lam since he was born in China), does that make me a "German"? No, it does not. At the end of the day I'm still a Vietnamese, not some German

please stop going off topic

The Germans get to decide who is a citizen and who is not. In their case, they are very hun up on the concept of German ancestry, which is why a child born in Germany from Turkish parents does not get to claim citizenship, whereas an ethnic German whose ancestors emigrated to Russia 400 years ago can claim citizenship.

Since I am of partial Chinese ancestry, and members of my family have fought in all of Vietnam's wars, I don't give a rat's @ss what you think: if the ethnic Chinese says he is Vietnamese, then he is Vietnamese. Loyalty speaks louder than blood.

Of course you can say that you're Vietnamese because of Vietnamese blood running in your veins. May I ask what % is your Chinese blood?

Anyway BL, I realize that you don't have a very clear sense of ethnicity and racial consciouness.

I have 1/8 known Chinese ancestry that I know of. And what do you think the chances of me being physically able to talk to you would be, without the contributions of my Chinese and ethnic Chinese ancestors?


Nor do I want to, because I think of Vietnam as a modern and inclusive nation. And Vietnam cannot be a modern and inclusive nation if ancestry is valued over loyalty. We are not Japan, we are not Korea. We have to be ourselves.

me too

^^ dam you Chinese people ...and David Lam, too j/k

btw, i think there should be more VNese billionaires than those proclaimed billionaires. may nguoi co tay trong su tham nhung o VN, toi nghi cung it nhat vai nguoi co tong tai san o con so 1 ty. this i got from radio Free Asia. they stated their source, but, unfortunately, i wasn't able to catch it.

Wow me too, and if things hold up, my future kids will be 17/32 Chinese . But they'll be darn sure Vietnamese!


blacklight, tell us how you really feel. Don't hold back! To be fair, I think jintao used the number of papers originated from Vietnam that are published in high-impact journals. Shady tactic for sure, but technically he's not making things up.

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naw they don't do it over here....

shistssss.......I graudated a Salutorian. how come i didn't get invited to "Vietnamese Youth Excellence Recognition Porgram". lived in philly, but i got to school in Cali. GOOOOOOO "USC" trojan for life.

How can you be a salutorian, and spell so bad?

Did I misspell something?

Oh God, this is really sad.

Thanks for the info!

Hey...that's me in the above post 2 yrs ago and I haven't aged one bit.

that's probably a small school