[emmie]

The term "FOB" seems a little airy-fairy to me, and may depend on the context.

Over the years, I've mixed with many native HK-ers, and, courtesy of them and their introducing me to local culture/ways, managed, somewhat, to "straighten out" most of my spoken Cantonese, to "blend" a bit more into HK life here. It's way easier as I'm ethnic Chinese though born/raised elsewhere "West"; nevertheless, I'm still sorta a "FOB" in their eyes - BUT nothing really strange 'bout that.

The "tension" or "split" detected by Dean, from his perspective... well, guess I wasn't alert enuff to them (?). Odd, but intriguing thread topic.