Talk:France Nuyen

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I really thought she was Black in the Star Trek episode she was in. That picture looks nothing like she looked in the show at all. There should be a picture of her in that getup since that is what she is most famous for. Then we can compare the two photos and say "Oh yeah". 75.130.91.73 (talk) 22:27, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

Diacritics

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

UNCLE

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)

Nguyen or Nuyen ?

The title and the text of the article are inconsistent. Hektor (talk) 22:33, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I wanted to quote the article 'often incorrectly spelled as "Nguyen"' and then say, including in this article, ha. tharsaile (talk) 03:09, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

This is confusing. Her credits apparently are almost always as "France Nuyen", yet the article is "France Nguyen" and says nothing about Nuyen. And the article's been moved from one name to the other at least once each way. If you google "France Nguyen" it redirects you to results for France Nuyen. I just had to fix the Memory Alpha link. Shouldn't the person's best-known name be used as the article title and be reworded appropriately? - Salamurai (talk) 04:16, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes, exactly. Her professional acting name is France Nuyen, not France Nguyen. We can talk about her birth name etc in the article, but to name the article after a name she is NOT known by is just wrong. -- Jack of Oz ^{[your turn]} 00:15, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

I think user Rick570 just assumed that her name must be spelled the more common way and that "Nuyen" was a spelling error. And then he took the liberty of renaming the article, but without renaming the content, which someone else did subsequently. But it can't be moved back without administration being involved because the correct spelling is now a redirect to the incorrect one. The redirect would have to be deleted to make way for the move.

Oops, you already corrected it. I didn't see that until after your above post. :P Adrigon (talk) 07:02, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Confusingly stated ethnic background

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)

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)

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)