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JGL is right, only Americans and possibly Canadians use the term WOP, which i think originated in New York aimed at the Irish and Italian immigrants during the height of their immigration drive.
FOB was mainly aimed at Vietnamese and Korean immigrants who fled both US involved war torn locations from the 60's and the 70's. In Australia, during the 70's and the early 80's boat person or Boat people were what these immigrants were called. because they arrived on boats.

How its being applied to Hong Kong, is a little bit of a mystery, as majority of expats living in Hong kong are short term work contract staff, who do their duty abroad and return back home, with no intention of ever living in Hong kong permanently.

Even a fair percentage of long termers ,7 plus years etc, wouldnt see HK as a final destination, with view of finding much greener and visually appealing pastures, to spend their retirement in later on.

I include a large percentage of well off Hong Kong people in that scenario too, because most who have made it here, do migrate to Canada or Australia or where ever is a nice place to retire, and spend their remaining golden years, in complete comfort.

Granted there there is a small percentage of non Chinese foreigners who have chosen to live in Hong kong as their permanent residence, who have also contributed to Hong Kongs way of life, blended in, in their own way, but not at the expense of forgetting their cultural roots.

Keeping ones cultural identity intact, is something I greatly admire about people, nothing is more sorry than a person who has lost their identity, and who is bitter about their home land, a person of great character will replace the i with an e, and makes things better.