A person born in the US or Canada with South Asian background. Looks brown from the outside but white from the inside. Supports White and Black immigrants but wants the government to ban immigration for South Asians. A coconut will try to blend in to White or Black culture and will often criticize and hate South Asian culture. A coconut will carry hate for brown people more than a Black or White person can. A coconut will always believe that South Asians are the worst kind of people and will find anything to degrade them.
-She does not like to datebrown dudes even though she is brown herself.
-She is a coconut person.
Word used to describe desi / South-Asian people living in the West who are desi or Pakistani/Indian etc. only in name. inside, they are white. they are completely integrated and don't know much if anything about their history or culture. Typically they don't know their mother tongue.
yaar they're just a coconut. They can't even speak Punjabi.
They don't celebrate Eid or Diwali. they're total coconuts.