Sooooo....I just watched this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoLLEZlpUxk posted by Alexandra Wallace from UCLA, ranting about Asians...please watch this video before you read any further so that you can understand exactly what I am about to talk about.
Wow...I didn't realize people could be so incredibly stupid. I mean, I thought all humans had evolved past the Neanderthal stage by now, but I guess not. I'm just going to go over some of the most infuriating points in the video and offer my responses to her now:
"So, don't take this offensively. I don't mean it towards any of my friends. I mean it towards random people that I don't even know in the library."
Right...because it's always a sign of good moral fiber to be judging "random people that I don't even know".
"These HORDES of Asian people that UCLA accepts into our school every single year."
Did it ever occur to you that the reason hordes of Asians get accepted into good schools is because we are intelligent, talented, and awesome? Do you really think that if you had to compete with us directly for a position in college (as in there weren't any need to balance out the racial composition of a university) you would actually get in?
"If you're gonna come to UCLA, then use American manners."
I...don't really know how to respond to this. What exactly does "American manners" mean? Because last time I checked, America is known as the melting pot, where people from all cultures can live peacefully together. Last time I checked, the actual native people of North America were Native American. I'm sorry to say that you don't look Native American, though with your hair dyed to that extent and your IQ at such a pitifully low level, I can see how you might forget who you are.
"You will always see old Asian people running around this apartment complex every weekend; that's what they do. They don't teach their kids to fend for themselves."
Well I'm sorry that we have loving families and we care about and help each other. I'm sure you're just jealous because your family took one look at your face and wanted to leave you by the side of the road. Also, "don't teach their kids to fend for themselves??" Are you kidding me? You obviously have no idea what Asian parents are like...I can say (with no intent to brag) that I cook, clean, do laundry, grocery shop, and basically can live completely independently, all thanks to those "old Asian people" that raised me, God bless them. And I know that there are Asians who are so much more accomplished than me, which puts them so much above your level that you couldn't even dream of becoming half the people they are.
"You know what they don't also teach them is their manners...Hi. In America, we do not talk on our cell phones in the library...I'll be like deep into my studying into my political science theories and arguments...all of a sudden when I'm about to like reach an epiphany, over here from somewhere, 'OOH, ching chong ling long ting tong, OOH'"
Hahaha...so many things I could say...first of all, you can throw that poli-sci degree out the window, because after this, your life is so screwed that it's not gonna help you. Secondly, your epiphany was probably something along the lines of "Oh my gawwwd...soooo...if I go to the mall right now, I can, like, probably get, like, another top that's, like, way to small for my fake boobs for, like, 10% off!!" Finally, the mockery of Asian language that you made just shows how ignorant you are. You'd never be smart enough to learn an Asian language for real anyway.
"So being the polite, nice, American girl that my momma raised me to be."
Ha. No commentary necessary. You're mom's probably so ashamed of you right now, she's probably wishing that she had died an early death so that she hadn't given birth to such a thorn in society's side.
"I swear they're going through their whole families just checking on everybody from the tsunami thing."
This is the most cruel, ignorant, heartless thing that you said in this entire video. You obviously don't have enough brain power or care in your heart (or neither) to be able to even try to understand what people in Japan are going through right now. I'm sure you never even took the time from your busy party schedule to consider how someone who has just lost their entire family, all their belongings, their entire life, must feel. The fact that you consider your 'studying' (if you were even doing that) to be more important than someone finding out if their loved one is alive shows how sad your existence is.
Okay....sorry everyone. I just had to get that out. Not that I support threats and violence, but I can definitely see how some people (especially someone who has lost someone to the tsunami) might go in that direction.
March 21st is the International Day for the Elimination of Racism.
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