Talk:France Nuyen

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém.jpg

message: Name needs diacritics. Badagnani (talk) 04:17, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diacritics 

message: You missed her guest starring on The Man From UNCLE episode, The cherry blossom affair.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.252.249.41 (talk) 14:30, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  UNCLE 

message: Under the heading "Biography", it states "Nuyen was born in Marseille, France. Her mother was French, her father was Vietnamese. After her father's death, she learned that she was half ethnic from Cambodia.  During World War II, her mother and grandfather were persecuted by the Nazis for being Roma."  This seems self-contradictory on both counts.  If her father was Vietnamese (his surname certainly is), then saying that "she was half ethnic from Cambodia" makes no sense; she was one or the other.  Perhaps her father was ethnically Cambodian but a citizen of Vietnam, but his surname suggests otherwise, and Ms. Nuyen's face does not look typically Cambodian.  And perhaps her mother was a citizen of France, but ethically Roma, but again -- it's awkwardly stated.  I'd like to see more than just a link to a page in a book to support this.  Perhaps the supporting text in question could be quoted in-line, or provided in the footnotes. Bricology (talk) 16:28, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It didn't make any sense to me, either: "Her mother was French, her father was Vietnamese. After her father's death, she learned that she was half ethnic from Cambodia" is like saying, "she is 50% French, 50% Vietnamese, and 50% Cambodian." giggle (talk) 11:13, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: There are ethnic Chinese people all over Southeast Asia.  Nuyen's father was a merchant-marine sailor (according to one of the article's citations), so he likely grew up in at least one  Southeast Asian port city.  (She may never have learned much about her father's life, and his childhood might have been just as chaotic as hers was.)  Most port cities, including Marseille, have lots of mixed marriages, and non-marriages, because of male sailors from all over the world coming, going, and sometimes settling down when they meet local women.  (I, an Anglo-American, worked in the mid-1980s in a Paris suburb, where my office mate was a man who had been born circa 1949 in the port of Casablanca to a local Sephardic (nonobservant) Jew and a French merchant marine sailor from Haiphong, whose shared langauge was originally only French.  Soon, father left the sea, and the family relocated to start a successful Vietnamese restaurant in the Moroccan capitol of Rabat, where my officemate and siblings grew up, attending French-language private schools.  In the 1960s and 1970s, the 2 older kids went to college in Hanoi and the 2 younger kids in Havana, 3 of them marrying locals while they were in away.  My officemate took me along on his semiannual visit home, so we celebrated 1986 Tet - Vietnamese New Year - in the family restaurant in Rabat, with some of his other Sephardic-Vietnamese cousins, and I listened to arguments (in French) between the Zionists and anti-Zionists among them.) Acwilson9 (talk) 01:01, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusingly stated ethnic background