An American

An engineer is here to install a new CVD machine for our research. The day I met him, I noticed that his face resembles east asians but he said that he is American anyway.
He, not a sureprise, is good at English and uses a lot of American slangs while talking. The east asian accent, however, makes it difficult to understand him sometimes.

Yesterday, my colleague asked about his nationality and got this answer: American. I´m an American.

- "But you seem to be from an eastern country", my friend asked.
- "Yes. I was born in Vietnam", he answered.

- "Have you ever been to Vietnam?", my friend asked again.
- "No. I was born there but lived in the U.S.", answered the engineer.

- "Do you use special characters like Chinese?"
-"No. I think they use English characters."

- " So, you don´t know the language?"
-"No. My house is in California and I´m American. I know nothing about the language and culture. That´s why I´m not going there."


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