Intercultural Channel. In other words, half the AA population. Even the 2 million AA who immigrated as kids and speak English like -- or in some cases, better than -- native-born Americans rarely escape the sting of being dismissed by American-Born Asians ABAs based on real or imagined differences.
But intra-Asian prejudice is a two-way street. This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. We may request cookies to be set on your device. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website.
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I was raised in Taiwan but later attended an international high school. We were never invited to bottle-service parties at posh nightclubs, but really, so what? The weird thing, though, was that even in the midst of Taipei, FOB meant you were less desirable than some Ryan Seacrest cosplayer who'd probably grow up to earnestly love David Guetta and Instagram lobster rolls.
But a solid counterculture at my school wore the FOB label with pride — dressing in uniforms borrowed from local schools, smoking cheap domestic cigarettes, loudly slanging in Taiwanese in the hallways. In Taipei, after all, not being FOB meant being a smug self-segregated expatriate.
My "Asianness" would later be a liability in my American college, but I was never stung by the word "FOB" itself, just by strangers silently deciding I was a less vibrant, likable, or interesting human being based on my cultural affect.
That never manifested itself in the F-word. I don't have a huge history with "fresh off the boat. I know our own family on the Puerto Rican side liked to remind people that we were Americans. I remember my dad saying that when people asked my grandfather how he came to the U.
My dad got a bit of it from my grandpa, he would say, "I was born in Buffalo, N. I think we were privy to the term because it was never hurled as an insult or a slur. It's something we identified with — whether we were "fresh off the boat," by its conventional definition, or not.
We'd described our parents as FOBs. We described our behaviors as "fobby. Because, well, as much as it's used — and I've used it — very casually in conversation or jest, for me and my friends, the term rouses realities and lived experiences and ideas that are very real and that I take very seriously: the hopes my parents carried from China, watching them struggle to find a place in a new country, really struggle, get knocked down, face discrimination, find success, make something, make MONEY.
Home Fobs - harder to identified, they dress in very generic and typical clothing and appearance. You usually cannot tell they are fobs until you hear them speak with their accents. And they usually have less social life as compared to their "hip" counterparts.
But with this, it allows them to assimilated easier with other cultures as they don't have any existing fob friends for them to limit themselves with to. Sunny and Bobo sure are Fobs. They have immigrated here to the U.
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