Re: Asian-ness (was Re: "Whiteness" Re: Obseneties)

In a message dated 9/1/2000 11:46:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
yl112@CORNELL.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")

 <laugh>  A term used at my HS (and doubtless other places; a friend from
 Stuyvesant HS in NY reported it) is "twinkie": yellow on the outside,
 white on the inside. >>


I've heard that one... one Asian friend made the mistake of calling another a
twinkie, they did not speak for a couple weeks.