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My Mom is a Fob Turns One Today!

San Francisco Chronicle’s Asian Pop Columnist Jeff Yang comments about the once-derogatory term “FOB”, “When Hwang and I were growing up, it was always clearly an acronym, with each letter spoken out loud, Eff Oh Bee. For Teresa and Serena and their generational peers, the term “fob” has become monosyllabic, rhyming with “rob” — disconnecting [...]