The asians in Brown

hinderpanda
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:20:50 +0000

whitewashed: values/outlooks are more of the typical “north-american” type than your average FOBs (which are more of the “Asian” mindset). There are CBCs (canadian-born chinese)/CBKs whose families teach them more traditional beliefs or whatever from their “homelands”, but in most cases the whitewashed kids do act more like Canadians or Americans than Chinese or Korean or whatever. They also look at social interactions differently, IMO. That’s how I define whitewashed anyways, and I think it’s silly to pretend that these distinctions don’t exist.
BUT, there are also always exceptions to every case.
I came to Canada in grade 3, but I prefer hanging out with the FOBs in my school more than the whitewashed kids, whereas most of the kids I know that immigrated this early on chooses to hang out with the whitewashed ones. xD

I’m quite interested in what the OP is asking, I haven’t thought about this before, but I’d guess there would be more whitewashed ones than FOBs @ Brown, just because very recent immigrants haven’t had as much time to prepare for the American race of getting in these top Ivies (e.g. ECs, awards, “dedication” to some type of project or whatever) as CBCs may have had, and some of them would also have some kind of language barriers to work over.

I’m not being “racist” or trying to offend anyone, I might be over-simplifying a bit, but I think what I’m saying does make sense.
Please don’t take offense.