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Does anyone else find that pointing out that his mother was Hawaiian and his grandfather was Chinese a tad offensive? After all, the admirals of Irish descent don't have that pointed out, nor do the Italians or the Jewish. What's the intent of including this information? Jinian 13:38, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

It seems noteworthy to me; How many Asian-Americans were Annapolis grads in the 1930s? Was he the first, or the first to reach flag rank? By comparison, by then Irish- and Italian-Americans were thick on the ground. I'd never heard of him before, but I guessed his names were Polynesian and Chinese/Korean--I clicked on the link to learn more. A lot of people would just recognise it as some unfamiliar kind of exotic.

A quick look through American admirals and generals finds some with their ethnic background prominently mentioned: Walter Krueger, Hyman Rickover, Pedro Del Valle, Luis R. Esteves, Frederick Lois Riefkohl, Benjamin O. Davis Sr., Antonio Taguba and others not: Robert Eichelberger, Chester Nimitz, Edmund P. Giambastiani, Antonio Rodriguez Balinas, Maurice Rose.

—wwoods 02:43, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I don't feel strongly about this, but most of the times when ancestry is mentioned, it's because the person was not born in the United States (Philippines, Russia, Puerto Rico - although it is a territory like Hawaii was at the time of Chung-Hoon's birth) or because they were the first. If he was the first Chinese-American to attend the Academy or reach flag or have a ship named for him or whatever, then we should mention that. Or simply mention that he was born in Hawaii (which the article can without saying "oh! oh! look! His granddad wasn't born here! and his mom had native heritage!).

Speaking of being "Hawaiian", see [ [1]] for a discussion of what that word even means. Jinian 14:10, 18 Dec 2004

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The name: " Chung- Hoon" sounds more Korean then Chinese. People might mistaken him has Chinese but I wouldn't be surprised his actually Korean or Korean-Chinese.

I hope you are aware than Hanyu Pinyin isn't the only romanization method of Chinese... especially since many Chinese in America in the old days used archaic romanizations for their personal names... "Chung" is Wade-Giles for any of the characters that in Hanyu Pinyin would be pronounced "zhong" (e.g. 中，种，忠， etc), for example, Chunghwa Post. "Hoon" is a common corruption of "heng" in Singaporean-Chinese and Malaysian-Chinese names, so I don't see why it can't be used for Chinese-American names. --  李博杰  | — Talk contribs email 05:10, 17 June 2011 (UTC) reply