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cleanup-date|December 2005 NPOVcleanup-verify Ah beng is a term commonly given to a certain group of young Chinese men in Southeast Asia, particularly Singapore and Malaysia. These Chinese men, whose age ranging from their early teens to late 20s, usually centralize in the busier and more developed cities in the region. Ah bengs typically speak local slang, which is Hokkien or Cantonese (linguistics)|Cantonese mixed with English language|English and Malay language|Malay. Ah bengs are commonly seen sporting red or bleached hair, be it highlights or completely dyed. Occassionally, they might be seen going round with highlights in blue, purple, or lime green. They are usually more fashion conscious than the average joe in which they might walk around with leather-lookalike plastic trousers with dragon printed silky button down shirts. Ah bengs like branded clothes, and anything where labels are displayed prominently and can be read by all to show off their wealthy clothes (or lack of it, by buying fakes). Gold jewelry, like a necklace, is also a must. In short they are some wannabes who also fall into the fashion faux par trap. Most Ah Bengs grow the nails of their last finger, and this is used for digging their noses, which is a favourite pastime of an Ah Beng. Ah Bengs are also always seen squatting in public places as this is their favourite fashionable posture. Hair is dyed brown, and is nicknamed the golden monkey or the Orang Utan hairdo. To stand out in the crowd, an Ah Beng might choose bleached blond or any other shocking shades, like blue, purple, pink and etc. Ah Bengs are also mobile phone conscious as they can be spotted fiddling with their mobile phone ever so often, usually to download the latest ringtones from top Asian artists or just for the sake of simple text messaging. They love any phone that is able to play loud techno MP3 ringtones. Mobile phone are constantly changed to keep up-to-date with the latest and coolest models. This is also the reason why mobile phone businesses are usually owned by Ah Bengs. Cars are also a very important element in the development of the typical Ah Beng. These cars are always heavily modified, sporting fancy coloured lights, tinted windows, crazy sound systems, huge exhaust pipes and spoilers and stickers on the car. These cars are also used to take part in street races. It is believed that the Initial D (a Hong Kong movie based on the comic books and characters created by Shuichi Shigeno. Characters played by Jay Chou, Edison Chen, Anthony Wong, Kenny Bee and etc ) franchise is an Ah Beng favourite. Ah Bengs love techno, dance, trance and music that don't make any sense. They can be seen on the streets shaking their fists to the beat of the thumping bass from the big boom box which takes up space in their car boots. Ah Bengs are constantly labelled to speak broken English such as Singlish and Manglish. This is rather inaccurate as some Ah Bengs have been seen speaking in completely flawless English. The Ah Beng can be commonly heard starting their conversations with the offensive words "Tiu nia ma chao hai", meaning "Screw your mother's smelly pussy" or "Nia ma chao hai", meaning "Your mother's smelly pussy". Language is key to achieving the rank of an Ah Beng as the Ah Beng mentions more swear words than one can count. The female counterpart of the Ah Beng is commonly referred to as Ah_lian|Ah Lian. They usually own very poor dressing sense and put on clothes with huge bold wordings, which often makes no sense. Their preference are on sexy clothes which are eye-soring to be seen and usually leave very little to the imagination. Till date, they still wear boot cut pants with super flair cut. Ah Lians can be seen in discos dancing with Ah Bengs and singing in groups in a Karaoke with other Ah_lian|Ah Lians. They like wearing plastic bra straps and platform shoes and their hairs are dyed in shocking colors such as pink, purple or green. unreferenced
Category:Singaporean_society Category:Singaporean culture Category:Malaysian_society Category:Malaysian culture Category:Pejorative terms for people Category:Fashion This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Ah beng".
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