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Why do people hate it, when Vietnamese are grouped with East Asians?

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Who are the “people that hate it” when Vietnamese are grouped with East Asians? Who are the people that want to “group” Vietnamese with East Asians? The Vietnamese certainly don’t.

The Vietnamese are from Southeast Asia and consider themselves Southeast Asians. They are proud of their geographic and genetic ancestries.

As a Vietnamese, I never grouped myself with East Asians or had anyone else tried to group me with East Asians. We are Southeast Asians, proud, and we love ourselves!

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Because geographically, we’re not, we’re in South East Asia. Culturally, Vietnam was East Asian BEFORE colonial time. These days Vietnam are not culturally closer to East Asian countries any more than some other countries in the region like Singapore and Malaysia

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as one other quora correctly described. viet nam shares a common culture with other east asian countries i.e confucius, and a kanji rooted language. however geographically it is located in south east asia. but does not share any cultural linkage to these countries in south east asia. viet nam ppl could careless about what label other ppl call them, because they know who they are. viet nam ppl do not proffer allegiance nor kowtow to any country or ppl. they have fought wars after wars to stay that way, it means they don’t take crap from any loudmouth sob.

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Vietnam is a South East Asian country but it was greatly and mainly - not exclusively though - influenced by China (East Asia). East Asians “hate” it: Vietnam is not as developed as China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, so some nationals of those countries might consider that Vietnam is not worthy of being in their club. Vietnamese “hate” it: Some Vietnamese also refuse to acknowledge the impact of Chinese culture on Vietnamese culture while some others refuse to be seen as a “baby China”.

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Normal Vietnamese people just don’t care about Vietnam is grouped with East Asia or South East Asia. However, they are more familiar with South East Asia group as Vietnam is in ASEAN. Moreover, geographics also shows clearly that Vietnam is in South East of Asia.

The fact that Vietnam can be grouped with East Asia will make normal Vietnamese people don’t know why and they denied it. Some people repond negatively because Vietnam and China are having a dispute in South China Sea.

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