A friend from China that lived in NYC told me of her experiences with seeing Chinese in NY and asking them a question in Mandarin, they only spoke english.
Her term for them was
香蕉 (Xiāngjiāo) which means banana...
@TomB 你会中文，吗？
@Blueorchid520 No. I would love to learn though. My friends tried to teach me but learning the tones was too much of a trial for my western ears...