The meanings of fob and abc commonly used by international students.

Fob, which international students often say, refers to new immigrants, and abc refers to Chinese born in the United States.

1, FOB

Literally, Fresh off the boat refers to those new immigrants who have just arrived in the United States. The word "boat" is meaningful, and it is difficult to find an international student who comes to the United States to study by boat now.

So for immigrants from China, Boat has two meanings. First of all, it refers to the first generation of immigrants from China, who first came to the United States, probably in the early 19th century. At that time, the traffic was underdeveloped, there was no long-distance plane at all, and immigrants could only come by boat. Many of them are actually illegal workers.

The second meaning is still bitter. In fact, many illegal immigrants still come to the United States today. Most of them hid under cargo ships and landed in the United States through various dangers. Then, they are also called fresh disembarkation.

Today, FOB has been used to describe all people who were born and raised outside the United States and then came to study, work or settle in the United States. English is not their mother tongue, and they have their own fixed cultural customs and life circles. "

2、abc

ABC "means" American-born China ",which is abbreviated from the original word of the phrase. It means that Chinese born and raised in the United States are mostly descendants of immigrants from China in the past 30 years, or children born in the United States by China students.

"ABC" has an image metaphor called "banana", which means yellow skin and white heart.

Extended data:

The word fob originated from an American TV series "Fresh Get Off the Boat" (Taiwan Province translated "New Immigrants").

This TV series mainly tells the story of a China immigrant who moved from DC to Orlando to start a business. By the end of the first two seasons, it has 7.94 million viewers, ranking second in the TV series currently broadcast by ABC, second only to Modern Family.

The TV series adopts the classic flashback and narrative mode, and the punch line is the conflicts between family and cultural differences.

There are roughly three kinds of China people in the United States, which are called:

"CBC" (Chinese born in China)-Born in China, he still holds China nationality.

CBA (Chinese American)-Born in China, but naturalized as an American citizen.

ABC (American-born China).

The income and social status of Chinese Americans are unbalanced. Although many China people living in the big city Chinatown are poor, the well-educated elites live in places like Cupertino, Palo Alto, Chinogon, Diamond Bar and San Marino.

The social status of the upper and lower classes in China is very different. Lower-class Chinese are often discriminated against by upper-class Chinese and regarded as uneducated workers or illegal immigrants.

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