So, I'm arguing with someone on deviantart who thinks that if you were born in America, you can't be any ethnic race other than "American" (which is ignorant because American isn't even a race), and that if you were born and raised in America, regardless of if you were taught within the family (for example, a child born to Chinese parents in Chinatown in San Francisco), you were raised completely on American culture and aren't ethnically what your parents are at all.
So, my question is, what do you guys think? Do people who are born from immigrant parents have the right to say they are ethnically whatever their parents are, assuming their parents aren't mixed?
Because apparently, this guy is saying that I can't call myself Vietnamese (not even ethnically), even though I'm ethnically Vietnamese, was exposed to Vietnamese culture first before I was exposed to American culture (even though I was born and raised in the US, I was still raised in a Vietnamese home environment where I learned a lot about my family's culture, plus there are Vietnamese communities in southern California), and that Asians living in America calling themselves Asians are "frauds". :/
If anyone's curious,
here's the comment, and the string of comments of his, that sparked this. If you have a deviantart, please don't reply to him.
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