CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>> -"banana" => utterly Americanized Asians (in the tragic sense of
>"they
>> have lost their marbles and their heritage and gone too gung ho on
>American
>> values of the lowest common denominator")
>
>That's a new one on me.
Another version i've heard Filipinos use is "Coconut". Brown on the
outside, white on the inside. I'd never take that offensively because the
coconut is one of the most useful pan-tropical plants ;).
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