Potato and Rice - It's All Starch To Me

What a hoot! The All Men Are Liars blog in recently featured two topics which I found to be breathtakingly amusing and poignant (?). Yes, because it was as if all these strangers had stolen my recollections of various stages of my life. How is it possible that we have the same memories and experiences? My ultimate dream is to write a memoir/novel in the style of Nick Hornby's medical recollection, on what life was and is like. Probably, only Asian-extractions, their relatives and partners would be interested...but that makes a lot of us.

Particularly funny from, "Why Don't Aussie Girls Date Asian Men?":

There are two types of Oriental Asians: FOBS (Fresh off the Boats) and ABCs (Australian Born Chinese). FOBS are most likely to drive skylines or integras filled with stuffed toys and Honky/Korean pop music. These guys have a clear preference for Asian girls (preferably the Louis Vuitton totting toting

The ABC's on the otherhand are the Asian yobbos of the world. They will approach any girl of any race if she has the right attitude and looks good. I'm dating one at the moment (6 Ft 3 who can easily intimidate in a dark alley). Perhaps white girls are more accustomed to associating Asian guys with FOBS and therefore ruling out all the eligible ABC's? Could be good fodder to feed a man drought!
Posted by: Chop Suey at October 17, 2006 03:31 PM

From, "How Do You Say 'Yobbo' in Vietnamese?":

... You can't change human nature - a lot of people get freaked out by individuals and customs that are different to what they've grown up with. I don't know why. A thousand years ago it was the people from the next valley who wigged us out, now it's people from across the other side of the world. The thing is, as 'newcomers' blend in with 'us', we can't help take their pigment into the cultural mixture. In twenty years, a white kid will pull a rice paper roll out of their lunchbox, sitting next to an Asian kid chowing on pita and a Lebanese girl picking the cheese off her pizza pie. This is good. This is very good. Maybe we're not as tolerant and accepting as we should be, but evolution will force it upon us. My uncle always tells me that in 200-300 years, Australia will be the first true Eurasian race. We'll be identifiable around the world because of our beautiful caramel skin, almond eyes and thick bloody accents. Wish I was going to be here to see it - Sam

Look no further than Kylie Kwong for your quintessential Asian Aussie chick... perfect blend of her parents culture and her own...love it.
Posted by: ramona at August 17, 2006 10:07 AM

Kylie Kwong is not the quintessential Asian Aussie chick - she is a typical Surry Hills lesbian. Posted by: Lerker at August 17, 2006 10:46 AM

I am a big fan of asian migration - the more of them in Australia the comparatively larger my penis seems.
Posted by: Paul C at August 17, 2006 01:01 PM

All well and good, but that effect is being cancelled out by the number of Sudanese migrants recently.
Posted by: Andrew at August 17, 2006 01:18 PM

So true about FOB (Fresh Off Boat) and ABC (Aust Born Chinese) these are acronyms used by ABCs; I prefer to just use BHs - (Born Heres) instead of ABC as they ain't all "Chinese"- The differences are extreme (apart from the cool Aussie accent on BHs) totally two separate human species. Clothes and style is another obvious one, but attitude is also a huge denominator. FOBs are off another planet whilst BHs are rockin' it right in the pocket with you and right back atcha! Awesome! Gorgeous gregarious and groovy 2nd-gen Asian chix are the best thing about immigration, big whoop about the so-called culinary benefits; noodles not very solid grub. Opposite is kind of true for mid-east immigrants IMHO - I don't mind the odd kebab, although I prefer the Israeli kebabs - how mad is that!?.
Posted by: marcusbondi at August 18, 2006 05:02 PM