[dancingbymyself]

Have you ever met these people? They were born in America, but somehow they have fobby accents,
dress fobby, act fobby, pretty much embody fobbiness. Whenever I meet these people I
always wonder if they're actually like that, or if they're faking it. I mean, I get maybe dressing fobby...
but speaking with a fobby accent even though you were born in like Arkansas? What is that?

[shubr0om]

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it's my parent's talk accent man. lol i don't have the looks though.

[vip_gd]

maybe some people want to stay true to their roots.

[`deelicious]

Yes definately. And they bug the hell out of me. I guess one of the reasons for the accent is because they constantly speak their own language at home and when they're out with their asian friends. And no, I dont think they are faking the whole accent thing because I've seen people speak like that all the time.

[TyneeTom]

I highly doubt anyone chooses to speak FOB on purpose.

[ladee_bug]

Haven't met one of these people yet.
Don't really want to lol
But I guess it's not their faults unless they're doing it on purpose.

[Drunken Epik]

Have you ever met these people? They were born in America, but somehow they have fobby accents,
dress fobby, act fobby, pretty much embody fobbiness. Whenever I meet these people I
always wonder if they're actually like that, or if they're faking it. I mean, I get maybe dressing fobby...
but speaking with a fobby accent even though you were born in like Arkansas? What is that?

And this pertains to you how? If it doesn't affect you directly, then it shouldn't be a concern of yours. Maybe you should figure that out before you start blasting off on what others decide to do with themselves. It's their choice.

Dress fobby? Haha...Wow...I just had to laugh at that. What defines dressing fobby? Please...do tell. Enlighten me.

[Meenuh]

I know some people that have lived in America since they were really really young but they can't speak english very well but speak korean fluently. They have accents too~ I think it's because they spend the majority of their time speaking in korean especially since I live in koreatown and a lot of people here speak more korean than they do english.

[kawaiimonstarr]

omg! that's so true, there's this one guy i met and i swear, his pants is all the way up, he buttons his shirt all the way up, his hair is always on the side, he walks like a PENGUIN! ahhhh, he's from new york, come on. new york does not raise fobby kids.

[mintcracker]

I don't get why some ppl actually go overseas, I mean if you're just going to stay in that ethnicity circle, and speak korea (especially)/chinese etc, what's the point of being in a western country?

Might as well move back to your home country.

[dancingbymyself]

And this pertains to you how? If it doesn't affect you directly, then it shouldn't be a concern of yours. Maybe you should figure that out before you start blasting off on what others decide to do with themselves. It's their choice.

Dress fobby? Haha...Wow...I just had to laugh at that. What defines dressing fobby? Please...do tell. Enlighten me.

I never said it was a bad thing, I just thought it was weird. Also, just because things don't have anything to do with you, it doesn't mean that you can't think about it. The millions of starving people in the world have nothing to do with me, should I not pay attention to them too.



As for dressing fobby, see the fob style thread.

[meilove]

it's possible to dress and act fobby but as for the accents. there's only 2 ways. either they're faking it. which is most of the time. or they speak their mother tongue a lot at home and everywhere they can and they don't have a lot of friends AND dont speak up a lot at school so they don't speak english that much. it's possible because i've met ppl like that before

[asianami]

never met any of them cuz i live in a state with nooooooo fobssssssssss :X but i can still vision ppl doing this for either two reasons:

1.) faking it cuz they want to be fobs

OR


2.) so used to speaking their language at home with asian parents and with asian friends and also affliated with asian things more than american things in terms of entertainment, fashion choice, etc.

[jolie pomme]

Nope, I've never met a American fob in my life. (Unless you count the Japanophile white folks.) But then again I live in freakin' Utah. The Asians I met when I lived in Boston though, all adopted a hipster or high fashion look.

[angelcadex]

Sure, what's wrong with that? Minus the HEAVY accent that's most of the people at my brother's group in VSA (Vietnamese Student Assoc), though all mixes of Asian people, mostly Viet though. I like seeing that they stick to their roots, but fit in the American culture.

You know what's more weird? Someone who looks fob and speaks and you hear a heavy COUNTRY accent. Awkwarddd.

[onetwothuy]

I've never met anyone like that.
& You beat me to telling that guy to check the Fob Style thread.

[jewjubee]

well
sometimes when you keep talking to fobs for a long time
it kinda like sticks
you cant help it

[pencil_geeks*]

ahahaha summer of 07 my friends and I went to Vermont and somehow ended up making fun of how FOBs talk and we talked like them the whole entire time in Vermont and it has kind of affected our english. Never doing that again.. '


but the whole dressing like fobs, acting like one, I don't get. But now in stores, they sell that FOB look. SO ehhh.. idk.

[DarknessFalls]

u mean like Uncle Same and Uncle Chin?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ptyzc4BQliY

[IlikeChicken]

Lol I think it's kinda funny..How they try to hard..Well most of the girls in my school anyways

Its kinda obvious they're fakers though LOL...Since when did Fob become a cool thing.