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<p>[Alexandra</a> Wallace, UCLA Student, Films Racist Rant](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>Alexandra Wallace, UCLA Student, Films Racist Rant | HuffPost College)</p>
<p>From what I hear, she’s been receiving death threats and calls for expulsion. Obviously, the first is over the line. As for the latter … what do you think?</p>
<p>She made her own bed…if she needs to drop out and continue her studies elsewhere it’s her own fault. But expulsion, no.</p>
<p>Breaks my heart though that that brilliant individual may be delayed in providing her obviously insightful political science “epiphanies” to the foreign service.</p>
<p>She’s already apologized and said she doesn’t know what she was thinking.</p>
<p>And I hope she isn’t expelled. UCLA has a long history of coping with racist student rants – including a pages long diatribe in the school-sponsored paper for Black students about the evils of the Asians who were taking over small businesses in South Central LA because they were willing to have whole families work long hours, with much angst about how unfair this was, and many derogatory names. </p>
<p>Those students weren’t expelled, and that was a publication paid for by student fees.</p>
<p>I don’t get what the big deal is. Every time I turn on the TV I see people making fun of Italian-American “Goidos,” superficial Valley Girls, beer-guzzling Canadians, hawkish military guys, lawyers for being unscrupulous, lesbians for wearing flannel, child-molesting priests, etc.</p>
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<p>She didn’t need to mock Tsunami victims and family of victims. Complete low blow. It’d be like someone mocking 9/11 victims or something.</p>
<p>Was she mocking them or just mad that they were making all those calls in the library?</p>
<p>The consequences to her will last for a very long time. Any law school admissions officer, graduate school admissions officer or potential employer who googles her name would find this story.</p>
<p>She made as a$$ of herself. I can’t imagine what she was thinking and I imagine and hope that UCLA is mortified to have her among its ranks.
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<p>In general, it is just bad manners to make fun of anyone, on TV or otherwise. Although, I must admit, I have no problem with people picking on child molesting priests. Not really in the category of picking on Japanese students who feel compelled to check on the well being of family members caught in the grip of natural disaster.</p>
<p>Its one thing to go on a rant about peoples manners, library etiquette, cell phone usage, etc. It’s quite another to make that rant culture specific, imitate a foreign language in a vulgar way and make light of the fear and anxiety suffered by students separated from loved ones at a time of crises.</p>
<p>She showed very, very poor judgement.</p>
<p>I thought that her piece was amusing but it did downgrade my impression of UCLA. A little bit.</p>
<p>I do try to learn a little about the distinctions between ethnic groups in general and I thought it odd that she was using stereotypical Chinese names or language while complaining that Asians, presumably Japanese, were sending or receiving calls from their relatives that may have been affected by the tsunami.</p>
<p>such an ignorant little girl. and all in valley-speak, no less. </p>
<p>probably not even a california native.</p>
<p>You know what the worst thing is? So many people are defending her and condoning her actions. Yes I agree that death threats are extreme but I cannot explain how hurt I am about her comments about the tsunami. Totally inexclusable, ignorant and cruel. I live in Hong Kong and I cry every day watching the news about Japan. I know people whose families were affected. I can’t imagine the insensitivity of this girl.</p>
<p>Hey, no one ever said diversity is easy. This young girl is an example of a (probably sheltered) white middle-class woman coming face-to-face with a group of people who are foreign to her. And so she reacted in a very typical way, whining ‘why can’t they be more like ME?’ Her observations were shallow and silly, her complaints inane, and based on no apparent deep and intimate knowledge of any Asian person. I say, shrug this off. This girl is young, young young (and sheltered. And ignorant.) Though I agree she doesn’t reflect well on UCLA and if I were in that university’s administration – a university, and a school system where there are tens of thousands of Asians, I’d be pretty embarrassed. (And ****ed.)</p>
<p>^that still doesn’t excuse her remarks about the tsunami victims. If you think your entire family might have suffered through an earthquake, you want to find out how they are ASAP. You do NOT think of going out of the library to not disturb people having “epiphanies” in there. Even if you know NOTHING about other cultures you should have some sympathy for people affected by natural disasters.</p>
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<p>How on earth is this remotely okay? I really doubt a girl can be sheltered enough not to know that “ching chong” jokes are bigoted. Did she sing the “ching chong song” at Asian American kids on the playground, I wonder? How can she be that sheltered, when she lives in such a diverse state? </p>
<p>The thing that bothers me most is how she keeps referring to how we do things “in America.” You know, the majority of Asian people in UCLA are also Americans– yes, even the ones who speak in an Asian language on the phone sometimes! Instead of saying that her comments are “as a nice American girl,” she really should’ve said “as a nice white girl…”</p>
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<p>A junior in college is not young.
Ignorant, for sure as she doesn’t even know Japanese are different from Chinese.
Sheltered, not because she said these Asian children @UCLA can’t fend for themselves. So that means she have been fending for herself for a long time.</p>
<p>Certainly the video was dumb and insensitive but I don’t think UCLA has anything to do with it. It’s her personal opinion and she’ll live with the consequences.</p>
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<p>Certainly, that’s why people need to think before attending a college. This also proves that she was not sheltered otherwise the parent would told her to join Notre Dame or BYU to avoid racial or religious diversity.</p>
<p>Mental and emotional age need not correlate with chronological age and maturity. In all matters that are important, the person who decided to make this film & broadcast it is very young, immature and ignorant. The death threats are extreme and a huge over-reaction, showing extreme immaturity as well.</p>
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<p>That’s equally dumb, insensitive and shows lack of judgement on the part of the people making these threats. </p>
<p>I won’t discount these people also as young and immature.</p>
<p>It’s good to see there is no shortage of overly sensitive, politically correct, hyper-empathetic people here. As far as bad taste goes, nothing even comes close Japanese-Americans getting the state of Hawaii (of all places) to lower its flags to half staff when Emperor Hirohito died. I was living in Hawaii at that time, and there was less hand-wringing over that insult than there is over this girl whose biggest gripe is cell-phone talking in the library.</p>
<p>And just for the record, I’ve long held the belief that Asian-Americans are getting the shaft in college admissions in the U.S., and haven’t been shy about saying so on CC.</p>
<p>Didn’t the tsunami also reach China’s coastline? I thought this was the case, which is why I don’t think this girl necessarily was confusing Chinese students with Japanese students.</p>
<p>The UCs do not accept counselor or teacher recs for admission, which I have always considered to be a weakness in the quality of their student bodies since there is no character filter whatsoever. Not that this girl’s flaws would necessarily have been revealed, but it is possible that she might have exhibited similar behavior in high school.</p>
<p>Finally, will someone please explain to me why making fun of another language is “bigoted?” I can’t find the reasoning for that one. We routinely speak in a mocking Swedish or French (or other) accent in our home when making a joke or point and I don’t want to be guilty of being a bigot because of it. Thank you in advance.</p>
<p>You make jokes in supposedly Swedish or French-sounding nonsense syllables? In order to mock Swedish or French people?</p>
<p>I am having trouble picturing that.</p>