ching-chong

Although she wasn't a celebrity a few days ago, a student at UCLA, Alexandra Wallace has become something of a name for a really unfortunate anti-Asian video she posted to YouTube, "Asians in the Library," in which she makes the mocking "ching-chong" phony Chinese sound and makes a comment about how Asians in the library are irritating her even if they're getting news about their relatives "back home" after the tsunami.

Gil Asakawa: Some People Think Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami Are Payback for Pearl Harbor? Really? Gil Asakawa 2011

Although she wasn't a celebrity a few days ago, a student at UCLA, Alexandra Wallace has become something of a name for a really unfortunate anti-Asian video she posted to YouTube, "Asians in the Library," in which she makes the mocking "ching-chong" phony Chinese sound and makes a comment about how Asians in the library are irritating her even if they're getting news about their relatives "back home" after the tsunami.

Gil Asakawa: Some People Think Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami Are Payback for Pearl Harbor? Really? Gil Asakawa 2011

McFarlane is allowed to because he likes musicals and is a big fat liberal like Rosie O'Donnell who wasn't fired after "ching-chong".

"We, in former times, constantly made jokes about different races." Ann Althouse 2009

She's left-field and quirky, geeky and unafraid, doesn't ching-chong jokes for easy laughs, doesn't get fussy about her sloppy hair and moon face.

Disgrasian: Why Don't We Have a Paper Heart-On? 2009

And for people like myself and other Asians I know who have dealt with, who have had, as kids, people running around, slanting their eyes, yelling ching-chong, ching-chong (ph), looking at a picture like this really feels like a kick in the face.

CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2008 2008

The difference between the Swedish Chef and Rosie's "ching-chong" bit is the difference between ethnic anybody remember that thing called "ethnic" humor? and racist humor.

"So what is it that makes Rosie's 'ching chong' so offensive?" Ann Althouse 2007

And that will only lead to saying "ching-chong" things, not because it's funny, but because it irritates the fuddy duddies.

"So what is it that makes Rosie's 'ching chong' so offensive?" Ann Althouse 2007

And that will only lead to saying "ching-chong" things, not because it's funny, but because it irritates the fuddy duddies.

"So what is it that makes Rosie's 'ching chong' so offensive?" Ann Althouse 2007

If he was pretending to sing in Chinese with "ching-chong" nonsense syllables, would anyone wonder if that was "useful cultural cross-over"?

Deaf Karaoke with David Armand Kay Olson 2007

IMO, saying "ching-chong" is the same as doing the slanty-eyed thing.

"So what is it that makes Rosie's 'ching chong' so offensive?" Ann Althouse 2007