Like my parents: They came to the United States in 1975 as refugees from Vietnam and became citizens in 1984. When do these languages stop being “foreign?”That’s why the foreign language classification for “Minari” stings. If Yiddish is an American language — and I think it is — then why not Korean, spoken here by Korean immigrants since the early 1900s, or Chinese, spoken here by Chinese immigrants since the 19th century? How many cartons of takeout Chinese food, made by Chinese Americans, do Americans have to eat before Chinese is not foreign? The HFPA — a group of international journalists, based in Southern California — made a similar gesture when, last year, it designated Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell” as a foreign language film.

Source: Washington Post December 24, 2020 11:03 UTC