WTF!: Racist Ringtone #1 On iTunes
Try a real awesome Mordecai and Rigby ra-ha-ringtone instead. :)
Ching-chongy Oriental music riff? Check. Big gong sound? Check. Over-exaggerated mock Asian-Y guy accent yelling at you about picking up your phone and calling you “Gay” and “Carpet Muncher” and calling you a “Niggah?” Check, check, and check.
Who knew that a ringtone with a horrendous mock Asian accent could be THE funniest and top-selling comedy ringtone on iTunes today! (Well, gosh, if just doing an Asian accent makes you top in Comedy…I really should’ve taken that advice from those hack comics when I first started doing standup comedy, huh?)
For a mere $1.29 you TOO can have your iPhone have an “Asian” guy telling you that your ”Asian Sister Calling.” The “artist” is called “Ringtones!” on iTunes and “Ringtone & Ringtones” on Amazon.
I transcribed this top seller just below but it’s MUCH more enlightening if you listen to “Sister Calling” for yourself. But it doesn’t stop there! You can also hear OTHER gems from this same company like “Carpet Muncher” and “Nunchuck!” in case you didn’t get your fill of Asian, gay and black stereotypes on your iPhone. See THOSE transcribed after the jump OR listen to them yourself at the Amazon site.
I also HIGHLY suggest you notify AMAZON that this is completely offensive and doesn’t deserve a place online. I left a comment of one star as well.
Refusing to speak a language
While growing up, I recall whenever I spoke my heritage language in public, it drew even more attention to me, an already stigmatised minority. Visible minority AND audible minority, Yikes! So I recoiled from speaking it outside the house and even then, only with my parents. It went on forever until I eventually reclaimed the language as an adult, nevertheless there are times when the perilous Asian tongue is met with suspicion, ridicule or hostility. I am still waiting for the world to grow up.
Strong negative attitudes towards a minority language will also lead speakers of that language to refuse to speak it in public. This was the case for many speakers of regional languages in nation-states in Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. And it is true of certain recent immigrant languages among the second and third generations today.
Source: Psychology Today
No, Really, I’m From Seattle
“Konichiwa! ” he snickers.
I turn to them with a raised eyebrow. They look at me with those smug grins still plastered onto their faces. I’m not even Japanese. If they’re going to make fun of me, they should at least get the right ethnicity.
“Ich komme aus Amerika,” I sneer, and I walk into a different car.
I’m Asian and nobody wants me to forget it. If the wannabe-gangster walking past me down the street doesn’t mutter “ching chong” under his breath when he walks by me, if some drunk doesn’t shout “hey, Chiney” as I walk home at 3 AM, if my friends don’t tell me that I’m a bad driver for a reason, I might not remember what I am.
Source: Glimpse
Can Alexandra Wallace Yell Racism in a Crowded Library? [Reader Forum]
Thank you Alexandra Wallace. The video got so many ‘eyeballs’, raised fuller awareness about racism, reaching so many including those who might not have shown interest in the topic. Reactions from far and wide remind us how far we have come and how much more work needs to be done. Thank you for making us think harder.
The video rant by Alexandra Wallace is offensive to most fair-minded people. But does Wallace deserve any more punishment than the public humiliation and death threats she’s endured? Update to the Update: And, Wallace said in an apology letter released to the Daily Bruin that she will no longer attend classes at UCLA. Source: HyphenUCLA Won’t Punish Student for Anti-Asian Video Rant
(Why) Do Asian Americans have a target on their backs?
The perpetual foreigner stereotype is another divisive tool that separates ‘us’ and ‘them’.
So, sadly I wasn’t too surprised by ‘Asians in the Library’. I’ve learned that anti-Asian American sentiment is not only widespread, it’s also socially acceptable.
Source: Psychology Today
