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<p>This does provide a potential answer to whether she was a free & reduced lunch student. How much do retail developers typically make?</p>
<p>There are some really funny video responses out there. I like this one quite a bit - it’s a song response at YouTube (search for it):</p>
<p>Asians in the Library Song (Response to UCLA’s Alexandra Wallace)</p>
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<p>That’s what I guessed but I was pondering how she might have treated those 16% if some happen to have the other qualitites that annoy her so much.</p>
<p>This is all so infuriating and sad. This is a privileged girl from California who is bright enough to have been accepted to UCLA. There is no way she isn’t aware that the Asians with whom she has grown up are as American as she is; no way she doesn’t know the horrible impact of anti-Asian bigotry in our state culminating in the internship of Japanese-Americans in the mid 20th century; no way she doesn’t realize that her video is hurtful, making fellow students wonder if their outwardly nice blonde classmates are, in fact, closet racists. The heartlessness of the tsunami comment is just icing on the cake. And my tax dollars are funding her epiphanies! I am hoping that, hanging her head in shame, she will skulk away out of my school, my city, and my state. Although quick stops at the Japanese-American museum and the Museum of Tolerance on her way out of town might be just the thing.</p>
<p>Interesting I attended UCLA in the 80’s and my husband attended High School at Bella Vista in the 70’s. He talks about the “white trash” element back then.</p>
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<p>My UCLA daughter just got home for quarter break and I asked if people (any race) do talk in the library. She said no…</p>
<p>Honestly, I think she made this video in frustration (I’m sure someone was actually talking the in the library… It does happen.) and didn’t think about it before she hit the ‘submit’ button. And, now she’s going to capitalize on it. </p>
<p>Oh, and fyi, someone already made a blog about Asians in the library that is nothing derogatory (definitely not in the vein that this girl wants it to be in).</p>
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<p>I’ve seen this blog (it was started at my university, I think or at least a lot of the original posts are from my university) and many do call it racist, but the intent is not to be racist. And it’s sort of funny. And they’ll take the pictures down if requested. Nothing wrong with it.</p>
<p>It is my hope that the administration at UCLA allows her to stay (assuming no decision has yet been made). She would then have to coexist with the people whom she publicly insulted.</p>
<p>post #50: What is amusing about languages or accents different than our own? </p>
<p>I always got a chuckle out of the Swedish Chef on the muppets. One of the more imitated characters around our house.</p>
<p>As for the video in question, the poor girl is a complete fool. Besides the topic being racist, it is amazing how poorly spoken she is…I somehow expect more from someone who is a junior at one of the top schools in the country.</p>
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<p>Although it is entirely likely that “decline to state” is heavily Asian since, for decades, it has been widely believed that indicating that you are Asian makes it more difficult to get into a good university (whether or not it is actually true).</p>
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<p>Considering that the origin of the word “tsunami” is Japanese (language), it is likely that people in Japan know that such things exist. Tsunamis in Japan within living memory of people there include those in 1896, 1923, 1933, 1944, 1946, 1964, 1983, 1993, 2007, and (of course) 2011.</p>
<p>The 1964, 1983, 1993, and 2007 tsunami struck the west coast of Japan.</p>
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<p>I always thought that was true for whites. Perhaps the perspective is a little different on the east coast where asian students don’t dominate the state schools to the level of the UCal schools.</p>
<p>At any rate, the split between Indians and Chinese probably puts the Chinese percentage lower than the white population.</p>
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<p>Earthquakes can certainly occur to the west but a look at a map of the ring of fire shows that more damage is likely on the inside rather than the outside.</p>
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<p>Yes, BCEagle, the perception in California is that being Asian is a disadvantage for gaining admission to the UCs and Stanford. (Of course, it is illegal for the UCs to discriminate based on race.) It also appears from perusing many, many CC threads, that this perception is found throughout the country regarding admission to HYSPM and the Ivies.</p>
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<p>To the point of not stating your race?</p>
<p>I have seen conversations on this with white students on CC but not with asian students. Have you seen threads here with asian students not reporting their race?</p>
<p>I just watched the video, and it wasn’t anywhere as bad as I expected. For example, no one mentioned the part where she says that she feels badly for those affected by the tsunami. No one mentioned the fact that she said that if you are going to call everyone in your address book you should just GO OUTSIDE, Asian or not. No one mentioned that she said that if you are doing this and get bad news you might find it hard to control yourself, so the library is not the place to be.</p>
<p>That said, her casual assumption that students of Asian ancestry who speak an Asian language are not “American” is stupid and probably tinged with racism. Her characterization of immigrant families is a typical reaction to those whose cultural norms are demonstrably different from hers. (Although I would note that non-Asian family members might well be showing up on the weekends, and this girl would probably not notice them.) Precisely the same kind of thing has been directed at every immigrant group that has ever come to the US. Precisely the same sort of thing is directed at immigrants in every country with which I am remotely familiar.</p>
<p>As for her imitation of the phone call, has anyone here ever heard the faux-Norwegian and faux-French on Prairie Home Companion? It seems pretty clear that she is attempting an edgy comedy routine here, but it ends up just being lame.</p>
<p>Frankly, I am prejudiced against dyed-blonde, blow-dry Valley Girls with Jennifer Aniston hairstyles, horrible accents, and too much cleavage. They give me the impression that they are vapid and dumb.</p>
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<p>Thanks for responding to my question. There are many muppets with accents or “funny” voices, and again: Why do we find this amusing? Would these muppets be as funny if they spoke like tv news anchors? What do we find funny here and why? I honestly want to know. I do not understand how to define humor or if it is even possible.</p>
<p>Most everyone here in the US - “white” people that is -(with a nod to beawinner, post 40) used to think Mickey Rooney was funny in Breakfast at Tiffany’s</p>
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[6</a> Most Racist Casting Decisions in Film History - Mania.com](<a href=“http://www.mania.com/6-racist-casting-decisions-film-history_article_121473.html]6”>http://www.mania.com/6-racist-casting-decisions-film-history_article_121473.html)</p>
<p>Most everyone here in the US used to enjoy minstrel shows.
[Blackface</a>! - A History of Minstrel Shows](<a href=“http://black-face.com/minstrel-shows.htm]Blackface”>Blackface! - A History of Minstrel Shows)</p>
<p>I think most everyone these days would have at least some discomfort with Andy Rooney’s portrayal and blackface.</p>
<p>Where is the difference between those performances and the Swedish chef muppet? Where do we draw the line? When is it acceptable, when not, and how do we explain those differences to small children viewing Sesame Street?</p>
<p>I honestly don’t understand this and would appreciate any enlightenment. Thanks in advance to anyone who is willing to try to explain it to me.</p>
<p>A point to keep in mind about the anti-Japan sentiments in the U.S. during World War II; there was significant anger towards Japanese from Chinese Americans at the time, some of whom supported (or certainly looked the other way) the internment of ethinc Japanese on the west coast. Chinese Americans considered Japan an imperialist conqueror for its occupation of Manchuria. So let’s not continue to casually lump together groups of people, as we are so want to do in the U.S.</p>
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<p>Still, some high profile schools on the east coast have a lot of Asian students among their undergraduates, relative to the US population:</p>
<p>CMU: 22%
Cornell: 16%
Harvard: 12%
MIT: 25%
Princeton: 17%
Rutgers: 25%
Virginia: 11%
Yale: 14%</p>
<p>BCEagle,
Somehow, you managed to miss the Jian Li vs. Princeton tidal wave. Research that case and CC for his name, and you will find a treasure-trove of info about Asian applicants and racism.</p>