Ha! Was it Thailand? Thailand is weird because you eat food deemed Chinese with chopsticks, and food deemed Thai with a fork and spoon, and displaying some Chinese heritage is a prestige thing
The Lao didn't care, we mostly ate with our hands. Thai were all over the place, but man did I get schooled hard while we were in Yunnan!
Considering the amount of racism towards Chinese I have encountered in Thailand, I somewhat doubt that.