Alexandra Wallace took a racist approach to a simple minded problem within the UC acceptance system; the admission of "hordes of Asians" (Wallace's words not mine). Ultimately it comes as no shock to anyone to find that millions of people were offended and Wallace would become the center of hate. Hate a four letter word that can be so strong. A few days after the post we find out through the media that she received death treats which led to her decision to drop out of UCLA, but can you really feel pity for her? or anger towards those retaliators? The UCLA chancellor deems to call the retaliation "uncivil discourse," yet understand that the mass majority if not all Asian receiving calls that night came as a direct affect of the tsunami that hit Japan.
Sadly Wallace had to be a white person with blue eyes, the dominant Aryan race or so early America, no world history would have liked to have had us believe. Lets not forget that a savage war was waged on this volatile belief. So what makes Jimmy Wong's parody stand out above other responses to Wallace's vlog; he takes his emotions and conveys them in a artistic approach that in my opinion is true Americanism. Naturally Wong is, at least, slightly offended by the vlog since he himself is of Asian decent but rather than turn that offence into retaliation of verbal abuse or counter racism, Wong creates a musical parody with both humor and sentiment towards not only Wallace but Asians as well.
Wong takes Wallace's racist mochary of the Asian language and pulls at it untill it becomes this beautiful and clairvoyant song:
(Ching Chong) It means I love you,
(Ling Long) I really want you,
(Ting Tong) I don't actually know what that means,
(Ching Chong) It's never ending,
(Ling Long) My head is spinning,
(Ting Tong) I still don't know what that means.
In my opinion, it's one of the the most beautiful chorus sung by a human being.
Click link to watch Jimmy Wong parody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zulEMWj3sVA&hd=1
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