On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Jonathan Chang wrote:
> - "FOBs" => Fresh Off the Boat, a la wet-behind-th'-ears naive awe-struck
> tourists, immigrants, newcomers, etc.
My friend was recently dumped for "some FOB". Those are the exact words
she used when telling me about it.
> - "ABCs" (interchangeable with "Banana") => American Born Chinese
She uses this one a lot too.
> -"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.
Marcus