US student quits UCLA after anti-Asian video
A US student whose “appalling” anti-Asian and anti-Japanese rant went viral on YouTube announced Friday she was quitting college, after receiving death threats. The University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) undergraduate said the video had led to “the harassment of my family … death threats and being ostracised from an entire community.
“Accordingly, for personal safety reasons, I have chosen to no longer attend classes at UCLA,” added the student, in her third year studying political science, in a letter to campus newspaper The Daily Bruin. In the YouTube clip she lashed out at the “hordes of Asian people” at UCLA. Speaking in a fake Asian language — “Ohhhh. Ching chong ling long ting tong” — she chastised them notably for talking on their cellphones in the library.
“In America, we do not talk on our cell phones in the library,” she said in the three-minute clip, adding: “If you’re gonna come to UCLA, then use American manners.” She continued: “I swear they’re going through their whole families, just checking on everybody from the tsunami thing. I mean, I know, that sounds horrible. I feel sorry for all the people affected by the tsunami. “But if you’re going to go call your address book, like you might as well go outside, because, if something is wrong, you might really freak out and you’re in the libtary, and everybody’s quiet.
UCLA chancellor Gene Block condemned the comments earlier in the week as “appalling” and said the video did not represent the views of the university community. In her letter to the Daily Bruin Friday, the student said she was “trying to produce a humorous YouTube video,” but instead “offended the UCLA community and the entire Asian culture.” “I am truly sorry for the hurtful words I said and the pain it caused to anyone who watched the video,” she wrote.
Asiance posted an Article with the subsequent video on March 15, 2011.
I’m not one to insult, but anonymous, if you really believe that this is the opinion about Asians of most white people, you are either ignorant or stupid. The girl’s comments were not only uncalled for, they were racist. On top of that, it reveals just how little she knows about Asian humility compared to the non-existent humility here in the U.S. I guarantee that this girl would stick her foot in her mouth a dozen times before the day was over in Japan. Americans don’t have the same level of respect, and its silly of her to assume that “here in America” we do things so much better.
That said, Marisa is also right — death threats are way off base here, and I wonder how many of those are coming from Americans?
As much as the video was in poor taste, two wrongs do not make a right. The death threats and harassment of this girl’s family are horrifying and uncalled for. She is better off going to another University as I suggested in my comments, but violence is not a solution in any case!
To read the Asiance article on this topic, please go to :
http://www.asiancemagazine.com/node/13744
this is what most white people think of asians.