White person can barely communicate in another language = bilingual.

Person of colour becomes fluent in English = ESL

Funny how it works, eh?

@ximenaka cherry on top is that if youre a SEA indian, you get crapped on and abused for having english as your primary language to a degree that matches with the local one or surpasses it. Get claimed to be elitist, anti-national and what not when its literally a crucial and intimate medium of communication for a lot of us.
@ximenaka
It is hard for me to define what billingual or fluent means but to me it indicates a minimum f basic daioy conversational level not tourist level. If barely communicates counts then I speak like seven languages lol.
@tokyo_0

@ximenaka
My kids are half Japanese and Japanese is their first language. In the US my oldest was classified as ESL but some of that was related to testing.

@tokyo_0