ABCD Short for “American Born Confused Desi” — a slightly derogatory name that first-generation South Asians in the U.S. use to describe children who were born and brought up in America and are “confused” about their South Asian background. Thanks to the Internet, there are now at least two versions of the phrase that stretch all the way to Z. One is “American Born Confused Desi Emigrated From Gujarat House in Jersey Kids Learning Medicine Now Owning Property Quite Reasonable Salary Two Uncles Visiting White Xenophobia Yet Zestful.” And the other: “American Born Confused Desi, Emigrated From Gujarat, Housed In Jersey, Keeping Lotsa Motels, Named Omkarnath Patel, Quickly Reached Success Through Underhanded Vicious Ways, Xenophobic Yet Zestful.”