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.