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Old 28-04-2008, 10:36 AM
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I think that FOB is an Americanism, at least as far as it's applied to Chinese people. I've only come across this term used either in the US, or used by Americans. My take on it is that other English-speaking nations don't indulge in so much cultural angst to bother with the term