India, Aug. 23 -- A young girl from Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, has gone viral after standing up for her Indian identity when someone online called her "Chinese." Her response has sparked a larger conversation about how people from India's Northeast are often wrongly identified based on how they look.

The girl, Karga Tinkle Gongo, four-year-old, was first filmed by her mother while out buying ice cream, an ordinary moment posted online without any expectation of attention. According to media reports, a social media user who saw this video commented, asking why a "Chinese" child was speaking Hindi and questioning whether a Chinese child would even know the Hindi language.

According to media reports, Tinkle's mother told her daughter abo...