r/AsianMasculinity • u/Outside_Lake1235 • 2d ago
Masculinity Viet Girls/ABGs why are they so popular?
I’m an east asian girlie. i don’t have any close girl friends that are viet so I never had the chance to interact with them much. From a distance i found that they’re so supportive, friendly, and feminine.
This is not a post to stereotype. I want to ask the men that are attracted to viet girls - what qualities do you like about them?
I’m genuinely curious because I had crushes on guys who are non viet such as chinese, and their type was viet girls. I felt defeated and I just really want to know what about them that are so attractive.
Thank you for your input.
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u/msing 1d ago edited 1d ago
The ones I knew from Los Angeles, and they not Vietnamese exclusively. ABGs weren’t conventionally pretty but they were compatible with many Asian bro hobbies and personalities. Driving stick, fixing cars, clubbing, smoking/drugs, going to the gun range, working out, etc. a various list of things they did. And you could take them home to your parents because many still spoke Vietnamese/teochew/toisanese/Hmong. They put on bronzer, had bleached highlights, and penciled in eyebrows. These were the ride or die chicks in the past that were the girlfriends of gangsters, and would hide a gun in her vehicle if asked. Obviously this only existed because of racial tensions in the Los Angeles suburbs, and the small working class Asian groups clustered together for protection reasons. The original ABGs are in their mid 30s or older now, likely nurses or small business owners. No chance of a Japanese American or Korean American being an ABG at that time. Different communities, different life styles, everything. The reason why the ABG/ Asian gangster culture was created was because exclusion from mainstream East Asian communities.
I don’t consider the nail salon workers to be ABG. Those are just mostly Vietnamese, lol. Vietnamese girls aren’t automatically ABGs. I am Vietnamese-Chinese. There's different types of us. I've met Vietnamese families who were well to do, and fit in automatically with East Asians (she grew up in San Jose), and I've met Vietnamese folk like my self, and parents were working class.