Thursday, March 31, 2011

Asians in the Library: UCLA Rant

This girl comes off as being completely ignorant from the very beginning when says that she may not be the most politically correct person and not to take it offensively. Then she goes on the state that she is a political science major, she better figure out how to be politically correct if she ever wants a job and especially after this video. She thinks that she’s just being honest and open about the situation and Asians in the library, when in truth she makes herself sound stupid because she’s completely stereotyping them. Her rant is completely negative; instead of making the difference she thought this video might have made, it just completely back fired. She was the one who received the negative feedback. Asians are not the only people who talk on their phone in the library either; just because she hasn’t seen other people do it does not make it okay for her to attack only them. In the video she makes it seem as if Asians are completely absorbed in their own world and don’t care about anyone around them. Instead, because she’s made this such a negative video she did the exact same thing. When she says things like “the nice, polite, American girl that my mamma raised me to be,” it is obvious that she is actually the one who is absorbed in her own world and no one should be disturbing it. She is trying to give a bad reputation to the Asians at UCLA from the video and get people to stand behind her in what she believes. All she did was give herself a bad name and stereotype the “dumb blondes” even more at her school. This rant did not help any situation or person, it was completely negative.

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