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Originally Posted by Skyhook  You have to take the good with the bad Claire Bear, its the law of the Geo forum jungle lol. |
It sounds like I find humerus the same things as Clare on the topic, but I loose green dots - I guess it's now what's said but who said it. My experience with this term was positive in Melbourne, I found it strange that it was positive. Or maybe it was neutral? I can't quite figure the difference.
Some of us use the term 'gwailo' almost as if it were positive, some (including my wife who is a very local Chinese) see it as very neutral and others are very offended and take your green dots away if you use the word.
I think also there is a point where we need to accept the terms, like PDLM, hey - you said you are a bit "Fresh of the Boat" and power to you. Why are so many offended by people saying the obvious? As local as I try to be I think it would take 10 years of trying to be very local and not FOB. I am less FOB then many of my friends but many of us are pretty FOBby. If we want to stay FOBby this is okay to, if we want to assimilate as much as possible this is quite helpful in the local context, but we're all in the same boat if we're on this forum (unless we're Chinese trying to improve our English or prefer English).
But it is interesting.
