ABC nghia la gi?

[kimono]

Các bạn cho mình hỏi ABC nghĩa là gì? Mình đọc một số nơi và thấy họ dùng từ ABC (mình nghĩ là từ lóng) nhưng không hiểu rõ lắm.

Cám ơn các bạn!

[Paddy]

Các bạn cho mình hỏi ABC nghĩa là gì? Mình đọc một số nơi và thấy họ dùng từ ABC (mình nghĩ là từ lóng) nhưng không hiểu rõ lắm.

Cám ơn các bạn!

It is a degrading/racist term to call American Born Chinese. Don't use it.

[justdoit]

It is a degrading/racist term to call American Born Chinese. Don't use it.

Here is my take:
American-born Chinese is a person born in the USA that has strong influence of Chinese background. [Google it]
I don’t think there is anything derogatory about it. Being called a “chink”, is derogatory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYCZqt5WSOM

[kimono]

Thanks guys for the input. I didn't know of that.

But what i'm really asking here is the Vietnamese abbreviation, not English.

[Paddy]

Here is my take:
American-born Chinese is a person born in the USA that has strong influence of Chinese background. [Google it]
I don’t think there is anything derogatory about it. Being called a “chink”, is derogatory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYCZqt5WSOM

I know for a fact that the ABC call Chinese born Chinese FOB (fresh of the boat), and the FOB call the other ABC. Both are used as degradatory terms.

[MANH NGUYEN]

Thanks guys for the input. I didn't know of that.

But what i'm really asking here is the Vietnamese abbreviation, not English.

It could be:

ABC's**/ˈeɪˌbiˈsiz/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ey-bee-seez] Show IPA
–noun (used with a plural verb) 1. Also, ABC. the alphabet.
2. the basic skills of spelling, reading, and writing: learning the ABC's in the early grades of school.
ABC = ignorant (dot nat.) in Vietnamse!!!

[kimono]

Ok, finally I found somewhere in another Vietnamese forum and ABC actually means money.

Có ai có ý kiến khác không? Mình thấy từ ABC này có nhiều nghĩa quá, mỗi người hiểu một khác.

[JohnDoe]

a derogatory term in england for uk born asians is banana. yellow on the outside and white inside. not nice.

[justdoit]

Here is my take:
American-born Chinese is a person born in the USA that has strong influence of Chinese background. [Google it]
I don’t think there is anything derogatory about it. Being called a “chink”, is derogatory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYCZqt5WSOM

I know for a fact that the ABC call Chinese born Chinese FOB (fresh of the boat), and the FOB call the other ABC. Both are used as degradatory terms.

OK Mr Paddy,
You're right, by calling someone "FOB", in someway you're saying that they are a newbie, an immigrant, inferior than you, in lessen value, etc.., for that one would considesr that a derogatory comment.
But calling someone an: American-Born Chinese, American-Born Vietnamese, American-Born Italian, or American-Born Irish, doesn't sound degrading at all, in my opinion.

[truelove]

Calm down, calm down ^^

According to the quote below

Thanks guys for the input. I didn't know of that.

But what i'm really asking here is the Vietnamese abbreviation, not English.

i suggest that you should not waste your time to explain it in English. This phrase means DOING BAD THING in Vietnamese meaning, for example: bribery... That's all