ut yet another poster wrote that "we should say he is Vietnamese, as he was born in Vietnam and is of Chinese descent".
From Ho Chi Minh City, writer Tran Tien Dung suggested on Facebook that Ke Huy Quan's identity is as a "Saigon-Cho Lon" person: "For me, Quan Ke Huy gets his energy from his birthplace in Saigon - Cho Lon, and his fame from growing up in the United States. So I want to congratulate him and share the joy with the public on social media."
"I think the way state media has neglected Ke Huy Quan's history as a boat person is regrettable," says Nguyen Van Tuan, a professor of medicine at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and also a former boat person.
"The story of refugee boat people in the 1970s and 80s is a tragic chapter in the nation's history. Most Vietnamese refugees arriving in the US at that time, whether of Chinese descent or "purely Vietnamese", were very poor. They didn't speak English. Yet they survived, and thrived."Today's generation in Vietnam cannot imagine the hardships of refugees at that time, partly because they have not been taught about that sad and painful period of our history."
Jonathan Head is the BBC's Southeast Asia correspondent and Tran Vo is a journalist with BBC Vietnamese based in Bangkok
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