First of all, I thought that they were called french fries, because "french" is a style of cooking, when you "french" something, that means you're frying it in oil. My source - some show on Food Network, most likely Good Eats with Alton Brown
Second, all my life, I have been referring to the holiday as Chinese New Years. I still do, so that's why I chose to call it Chinese New Years for this thread. Also, the Chinese had a big influence on the asian cultures in regards to celebration of the holiday*. So if you can argue that it's not completely incorrect to call them French fries because they did have partial origins in France, then I can use that logic and also argue that it's not completely incorrect to refer to the Lunar New Year as Chinese New Years.
*From what I can remember, the fireworks, the traditional foods such as the rice and bean patty cakes and dried sweetened coconut candy strips (yum), those good things we use to celebrate, originated in China.
Incidentally, I Wikipedia-ed this (I know some people do not trust Wikipedia as a credible source... but here it is anyway
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"Chinese New Year is celebrated in countries and territories with significant Han Chinese populations (Chinatowns), such as Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the new year celebrations of its geographic neighbors, as well as cultures with whom the Chinese have had extensive interaction. These include Koreans (Seollal), Tibetans and Bhutanese (Losar), Mongolians (Tsagaan Sar), Vietnamese (Tết),and the Japanese before 1873 (Oshogatsu)."
I don't want to argue this with you, but like I said before. I don't believe calling it Chinese New Years is giving the Chinese any kind of special attention or credit. Plenty of people know that it is the lunar new year, and plenty people know that not JUST the Chinese celebrate it.
Now, at least, not any kind of "undeserved favoritism".