| Wikipedia seems neutral, not specifically Asian.
The Wikipedia article I referred to in the first post a few years ago referred specifically to people from an Asian dependency settling in Western Nations. However if you read the current article it is amazingly neutral and refers to any immigrant settling into any target culture.
So, if the Wikipedia is to be taken 'verbadem' then are us expats "FOB's"? And if the Wikipedia article is neutral and factual (surely all things on the Internet are factual *haha*) then are the less assymilated we are with Chinese language and culture, the more "FOBBie" we are?
The word FOB is also certainly alive and well in Australia and used to talk of immigrants from Asia. I found a tension between my FOB friends in Australia and my banana friends also in Australia - do you think such tension arises in Hong Kong between those of us expats who are more assimilated and those of us who wish to stay in our gwailo hangouts?
This is deep and philosophical, no harm intended in by any means. | 