The asians in Brown

fireandrain
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:35:02 +0000

Learn something new every day.

What is “FOB”?

At the risk of getting involved in a debate about which I know next to nothing: My daughter is friends with a lot of Asians. I’ve met most of them. They seem not much different than other college-aged students. So I suppose they are “white washed.”

There are, however, some Asians at Brown who are very involved with Asian affinity groups. My daughter doesn’t hang out with them, because they tend to hang out only with each other. (Which, as far as I’m concerned, defeats the whole idea of having diversity on campus.) I haven’t met them, so I can’t say anything about how “white-washed” they might be.