the whitewashing was intentional. about how her family abandoned their vietnamese identity for a bostonian one.

even her travel to vietnam and how she was underwhelmed how she didn’t feel any connection to vietnam she tought would ease her existential dread a bit and help her with a sense of belonging to a family she never really had. turns out it’s not a part of her anymore after all and that’s ok.

i had some of these toughts in my life and found this character’s heritage to be subtle genius by the writers tbh.