It's not just Asians, either - looking in from the outside it appears to me that a large chunk of Americans have been so propagandized into hating their own country, they will grasp at the flimsiest straw to identify as literally anything else. "Oh I'm really Norwegian because two of my grand-grandparents came from there in the early 20th century. No, I don't speak the language, or know literally anything about the country, I've never been there." Same with Irish, German, Italian, pretty much any place that isn't the USA.
It's not just Asians, either - looking in from the outside it appears to me that a large chunk of Americans have been so propagandized into hating their own country, they will grasp at the flimsiest straw to identify as literally anything else. "Oh I'm really Norwegian because two of my grand-grandparents came from there in the early 20th century. No, I don't speak the language, or know literally anything about the country, I've never been there." Same with Irish, German, Italian, pretty much any place that isn't the USA.
23andme and its consequences...