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Post by jeepin4x4girl on May 7, 2004 12:41:51 GMT -5
With my filipino mother, I've had many experiences in the past when I swear my mother just embarasses me on purpose, but acts dumb about it. For example, I'll never forget, back in high school we had just moved into a new town and I was in the process of making new friends and what not. This guy called my house from high school, somebody I really liked. Anyway, my mother answered...oh no! and I was in the bathroom at the time doing my business when he called. I overheard my mother on the phone and she was like "Oh , no she not here right now, she going poo poo!" I could've DIED!! I mean, thats like the most embarassing thing anybody could ever do. I went and told my mother how pissed I was about the whole situation,and she just brushed it off like she didn't know what I was talking about and said "Oh, but its only natural!!"  I mean, come on mom!!! Other smaller incidents have happened in the past, not as bad as the one above, but like for instance, we would be shopping for bras or something and she would yell across the crowded store "Laaaniiiita!! What is your bra size???!! Is it 34 C!!  " God have mercy!!! Anyway, I'm sure many of you here have similar stories about embarassing asian mothers/or not to exclude anybody,also embarassing asian fathers. Or even just non-asian embarassing parents. |
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Post by Hapa_Guru on May 7, 2004 14:26:50 GMT -5
Asian women like your mom are the reason why my ASIAN MOM gets annoyed by SILLY FOBs.
What kind of family background is your mother from?
I noticed that Asians amongst higher society/education + mix with foreigners more in their home country tend to have a bit more of what my mother calls "tact"... i.e. my mom calls these Asian women "low class"... no offense.
I think this is more of an Asian thing than a Caucasian one unless you're talking about trailer trash rednecks.
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Post by Hapa_Guru on May 7, 2004 14:37:57 GMT -5
Sorry for the harshness of the post... but yes, your mom qualifies as one of those SILLY FOBs. Thank God, my mom isn't one of them... but it's probably much worse for girls.
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Post by shah meherbaneh on May 7, 2004 15:37:48 GMT -5
Both my parents used to do it just to see my reaction! And of course, I did my best to embarrass them, but being older and wiser, they just laughed it off. You can never win. Oh well.  |
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Post by p****cat on May 7, 2004 19:21:34 GMT -5
Oh yes, seriously asian moms can be so embarassing just give it them to share all your personal history and yes, you're right, bra sizes in public! It's embarassing when your mom screams "WAAAAIIIIIIII" and then your Chinese name across the mall to get your attention. Even worse when she doubles your Chinese name i.e. "WAAAAIIII-AHHHHHH TING TING AHHH!!" in public  |
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Post by maow on May 7, 2004 20:43:15 GMT -5
It's embarassing when your mom screams "WAAAAIIIIIIII" and then your Chinese name across the mall to get your attention. Even worse when she doubles your Chinese name i.e. "WAAAAIIII-AHHHHHH TING TING AHHH!!" in public I know it aint cool but I couldn't help but laugh at the visual I have when your mom screams that out! I had a Cantonese mom and I know EXACTLY what thats all about. If it's any consolation the name, Ting-Ting, sounds quite cute. Perhaps not at Cantonese mom sound levels though.... |
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Post by p****cat on May 7, 2004 20:53:03 GMT -5
Yeah, my mom screams often, even when she's just talking normal, she's really L-O-U-D!!!
P.S. Ting Ting isn't my Chinese name, I just used it for an example, but, for real, I know people named Ting Ting or Ling Ling, not just nick names, but their real "anglicized" names that they use for school i.e. their first and last name.
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Post by Uncle Hank on May 7, 2004 21:52:20 GMT -5
My mom is totally westernized, 2nd or 3rd generation ABC, but she does this one thing that pisses me off to no end. EVERYTHING I talk about with her seems to get relayed to all her friends (she has two rolodexes full of names; I can only imagine the number of people that know my sh*t...), and probably her friends' friends. She talks about my ish like there's nothing else in the world to talk about, and makes the s*** I say sound so f'n profound when in fact, it's just bullsh*t I spit out when I'm complaining and going off about stuff.
ughh muddas.
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Post by JooBuLee on May 7, 2004 21:59:36 GMT -5
 that is so funny! i feel bad for you, lol.. "poop poop" anyway.. my mom is so americanized, she never does that kind of stuff. you would never think she's from the motherland  hong kong... the only embarrassing thing that sticks out in my head was at x-mas when i was 17 (5 months in my relationship with my bf) and she said in front of my whole family and him and my friend (she had bought me a clinique gift set) something like 'oh, it'll help clear your skin! you said you wanted something like that"  i was so embarrassed, lol...
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Post by Monty on May 7, 2004 22:03:03 GMT -5
Omigod I had to reply this thread. My Mum (Malaysian) is the most embaressing woman in the world. I can't even begin to count all the times she has embaressed me and my Dad. I'm 21 and she still calls me 'Twinkle Toes', and thats not just in private. She openly tells her friends as well as mine how I was 'concieved' in South Korea but born in the UK. Plus if I dont have girlfriends for long periods of time she starts suspecting (openly!!!!) that I am gay. So much that she calls my friends and asks them about it. Gotta love 'er though...
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Post by jeepin4x4girl on May 7, 2004 22:46:02 GMT -5
lol....compared to all of your stories on your asian mothers, I think I have the worse....
and as for FOB, what exactly does that mean?? I'm not too smart when it comes to racial slang seeing that I don't have any connections to any asians at all.....
I don't understand the lower class thing though, my mother was born in the Philippines in a fairly poor family, but they managed to pay for her college education. Thats all I know so far, my mother doesn't really speak much of her homelife at all. Weird.
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Post by Hapa_Guru on May 7, 2004 23:35:20 GMT -5
lol....compared to all of your stories on your asian mothers, I think I have the worse.... and as for FOB, what exactly does that mean?? I'm not too smart when it comes to racial slang seeing that I don't have any connections to any asians at all..... I don't understand the lower class thing though, my mother was born in the Philippines in a fairly poor family, but they managed to pay for her college education. Thats all I know so far, my mother doesn't really speak much of her homelife at all. Weird. FOB = Fresh Off the Boat, i.e. Mr Ching Chong wah/stupid "go*k" chef speaking broken English types you'd see in movies. "low class" habits can still continue after some college education, etc. if the person spent a lot of time with poor/uneducated people, earlier in life. I know of some rich Asian ladies who seem much less classy than what I'd expect from most rich folks. They came from humble beginnings, and one in particular is a real LOUD MOUTH. Where/how'd your parents meet, again? In Malaysia there are two types of women who go for westerners... the westernized/educated Sarong Party Girls... and the "country girls" <-- might apply more to the smaller cities. One of the girls I dated was a "country girl" who wanted to go to college after she met me... oh my...  She was pretty boring intellectually/wasn't much of a conversationist. |
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Post by lefty on May 8, 2004 0:10:26 GMT -5
"low class" habits can still continue after some college education, etc. if the person spent a lot of time with poor/uneducated people, earlier in life. poor people have low class habits? thanks, i didn't know that! mwah!!!  |
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Post by shah meherbaneh on May 8, 2004 1:31:02 GMT -5
FOB = Fresh Off the Boat, i.e. Mr Ching Chong wah/stupid "go*k" chef speaking broken English types you'd see in movies. In other words, fohchookooky say: mee rahvyu rongtaima no si. |
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Post by jeepin4x4girl on May 8, 2004 6:36:24 GMT -5
Okay, now that I understand what you're trying to say, that infuriates me. My mother isn't a "FOB" she's been living in the United States for over 35 years. She now speaks very good english and is a radiologist (Had gotten her degree in the United States, not in the Philippines, I might add. Was on the Dean's list in college.) I suppose what I'm trying to say is that my mother may have done a few embarassing things to me in the past, but I don't think she quite realized it. She still has her "Filipino Moments" but that definitely doesn't mean she's a FOB. |
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I mean, come on mom!!!
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that is so funny! i feel bad for you, lol.. "poop poop" 
hong kong... the only embarrassing thing that sticks out in my head was at x-mas when i was 17 (5 months in my relationship with my bf) and she said in front of my whole family and him and my friend (she had bought me a clinique gift set) something like 'oh, it'll help clear your skin! you said you wanted something like that" 
i was so embarrassed, lol... 
