My undergraduate alma mater has been in the news lately thanks to a video that was uploaded by a UCLA student. She complains about the hordes of Asians in the library who talk loudly on their cellphones in their mysterious ching chong dialogue. As expected it sparked a multitude of angry responses and the pitchforks and torches were brought out to crucify this girl. I'm not gonna get into a debate about racism so I'll keep my thoughts to a minimum.
Personally, I feel that what the girl said was idiotic and represents the problems of having gross generalizations of other races. But seriously, everyone does that. As noted by a friend of mine (paraphrasing here) "If youtube and video uploading were given to our parents, people would be appalled as to what Asians think about other races." Admit it. Deep down inside we're all a bit racist. We say stuff about other races. We've probably done similar gross generalizations of races that this girl did. We just weren't dumb enough to post it on youtube.
I like this guy's response to the whole thing. Instead of writing a lengthy diatribe about the evils of white society and the perils of racism, why not just write a funny song.
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