Some people still want to keep Asian/Americans out. Call us foreign. It’s a sign of fear. We’re making our presence felt in books. It’s happening more and more in movies, too. It’s just a matter of time before we break these doors down all the way. https://twitter.com/variety/status/1341550506762596352

Americans speak dozens of languages. If an American speaks a language besides English, that doesn’t make them less American. If Spielberg made a movie about Jewish immigrants where everyone spoke Yiddish, it would be classified as an American movie and rightly so.

In fact, Spielberg made a movie about the Holocaust, set in a foreign country, and it won an Oscar for Best Picture, not Best Foreign Film. But MINARI, set in the USA, is somehow a foreign movie.

Officially the Golden Globe category "foreign language film," not foreign movie, but again, this means that anything besides English is a foreign language in the USA. And the implication is that anyone who speaks any language besides English (fluently or mostly) is foreign.

My parents, for example, are/were American citizens for the past 35 years or so, and lived here for 45 years, but mostly spoke Vietnamese. They bought homes, built businesses, paid taxes. When do they get to stop being "foreign"?