Vietnamese sentiment on China
for context, my mother's family is ethnically chinese but my maternal grandparents were children of chinese immigrants, so they're pretty viet assimilated. when i was little, they tried teaching me cantonese & mandarin before my father (a viet man with a chinese last name funnily enough) stopped it out of fear of sinophobia. growing up, he always chose the most anti-china guy in politics too?? when i came to vietnam and said jiejie instead of chi, i got a few disparaging remarks from my cousins, and i've heard a few unkind things about my mother's family from my paternal aunts. we're from the southern countryside so it might be an area thing (or an inlaw thing tbh)
my mom wants me to accompany my completely chinese cousin & aunt to vietnam this summer so i was just curious. i doubt either would be affected if there was (said cousin knows not a lick of viet nor a taste bud of mandarin/canto at this point and my aunt is like that) but i was just curious if it's something we might see or if it's just specific to my mom's circumstances