Viet Fever

I like cute things.

There was a lady in the elevator with these awesome double hearts earrings.

I also have conspicuous facial expressions. Thus it was only too obvious that I was staring at her. I decided to compliment her on her earrings, which her husband got her for Valentine’s. We got chatting at bit. She asked, “Are you Vietnamese?” I was kind of amazed that she got it partially right. I get a lot of staring at me blankly trying to figure it out, Korea, Japanese (perhaps due to my Japanese street style), Native American… “I am half Viet half Chinese.”

It turned out that she is too. Her mother is Viet. It got me thinking a bit. All the half Viet half Chinese people I know are results of Chinese fathers Viet mothers. An obvious answer for this is the immigrants from China that settled in Vietnam were predominantly men. There are, however, women. All the Chinese women I know in Vietnam married Chinese men. Even couples in the States were Chinese men Viet women… I am sure there are exceptions to this rule. It just got me giggling a bit. It is almost like the white men Asianie women phenomenon. I henceforth coin this “Viet Fever”.