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From the online discussions on Facebook and the Hong Kong Golden Forum, it is found that some Internet users would categorize the so-called' Fake ABC" with several salient features that will be mentioned in below. From their observation, they would then perceive the so-called "Fake ABC" as a out-group category, though they are also Hong Kong people.
1) From Facebook:
點解d港女咁鍾意扮abc??
【強帖留名】. (2013). In Facebook [Page type]. Retrieved April 29, 2014, from
§ The portrayal of a "Kong girl" with "Fake ABC" features
Salient features
✓ Tanned-skin
✓ Wears brand-name clothing from Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F), Hollister Co., etc.
✓ Speaks Cantonese with a "foreign tone", Chinese-English code-switching
✓ Drinks
✓ Listens to pop music which topped the Billboard charts
✓ Hangs out with foreigners at bars
✓ Being ignorant, snobbish, despises and deviates herself from locals
Picture 1: Logo of Hollister Picture 2: Logo of A&F
Picture 1 Source: http://fromvillageintolife.blogspot.hk/2011/05/things-from-hollister-arrived-today.html
Picture 2 Source: http://www.lhs204.stellpflug.com/Period%204/Jessica%20Ojeda/abercombie%20&%20fitch.html
Picture 3: Starbucks Coffee Picture 4: Bars in Lam Kwai Fong
Picture 3 Source: http://insightsonsocialmedia.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/starbucks_coffee.jpg
Picture 4 Source: http://www.hong-kong-hotels-network.com/hong-kong-photographs/pictures-image-pages/central_lan_kwai_fong_two.jpg
§ Comments from Facebook users
- "Real ABC cannot be faked" by Victor Siu (September 13, 2013)
- "I am proud to be a HK people who speak standard Cantonese" by Rockman Cheung (September 14, 2013)
- "Yes they are ABC - but AsiaBornChinese" by 超凱文 (September 13, 2013)
- ". . . most ABC, or at least the more educated bunch, are ashamed to be ABC, most of them want to learn and understand more of their Chinese heritage, it is certainly a much more worthy to be proud of then the land they are born on, America. . . . [A true ABC] will try to put in as many Chinese words as possible, stumble to find the correct Chinese word and ended up speaking in English." by Robin Chan (October 19, 2013)
§ Hidden implications
1) Stereotype: a certain image of what a Hongkonger or an American-born Chinese SHOULD look like.
2) The relationship between one's behaviour and one's identity: how you are supposed to act as a local Hongkonger.
3) Legitimacy: people believe that they have the authority to judge "you do not have the right to become an ABC"
2) From Hong Kong Golden Forum
點解d港女咁鍾意扮abc?? (HKGOLDEN.COM)
Psyche. (2012, December 17). 點解港女咁鍾意扮ABC?. HKGOLDEN.COM. Retrieved April 29, 2014, from http://archive.hkgolden.com/view.aspx?type=LV&message=4138263&highlight_id=0&page=1
扮唔識中文既假竹昇妹 (HKGOLDEN.COM)
葉苑君. (2009, August 20). 扮唔識中文既假竹昇妹. HKGOLDEN.COM. Retrieved April 29, 2014, from http://archive.hkgolden.com/view.aspx?message=1839080&page=1&highlight_id=0
§ Salient features
✓ Similar to the aforementioned content
§ Comments from forum users
1) "a lot of these 'perceived ABC' loved to be perceived as foreigners, sometimes even a mixture of foreign identities (ABK - American Born Korean)"
2) Justification given by a "real ABC" is being attacked by a user: "I don't care who you are in reality"
3) A lot of over-generalization: "ALL HKU BA girls are fake ABC"
§ Hidden implications
1) Sense of pride in fake ABC
2) Authenticity is not important because forum users wish to attack and seek for in-group favoritism which leads to over-generalization
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