ching chong poll

[howstrange]

CHING CHONG CHING CHONG!

Yup, in keeping with Ching Chong Ching Chong month, I am starting a poll to see how many of you Asians have been the butt end of that vicious chant. If so, I would like to know how that has affected your sensitivity towards such jokes as heard on the adam crapolla radio show.

Thanks

[howstrange]

i voted yes, done in a threatening and violent manner.

That is one of the reasons I can't stand those types of jokes, because I have been victim of such taunts. When said by comedian, the only difference is the stage, the meaning, the context, and the precieved aggression does not change. A joke can be a slur, a racist joke is a racist slur.

[silkie]

Yep, I've been cornered before, fingers jabbed, orange thrown at me from a moving automobile, etc., all accompanied by a ching-chong sound track.

Corolla, and other people, just don't understand that when they bring this up, they are touch a raw nerve with all these experience bundled up.

I consider myself socially well adjusted now. But hearing these comments makes me want to rip someone's throat out...

[awong]

i voted yes, threatening violent matter. Probably b/c the people who did say it to me I did not get along with in the first place or it was completely randomly said to me at school.

[MATHABA]

WHAT is with the fucking citrus fruits being thrown from cars? ive been hit by lemons and limes.
when i was in 9th grade and my big brother was in 11th grade we had a gym class together. some guy did the ching chong stuff to us in the locker room one day and my brother went crazy on him. the guy was all bloody and unconscious. my brother got suspended for it and the guy and his friends tried to get revenge on me while he was gone from school. i avoided them but they would harass me when i walked home. when my brother found out we went to the guy's house but his mother answered the door. he told her that her son would be dead if he didnt stop it. the next day a detective came to talk to us. it was all a lot of stupid bullshit but after that the guy didnt bother us anymore. i was scared because i was still a kid, i thought i had done something wrong.
my brother lives far away now, i kind of wish he would come back but i understand why he didn't like it here. he's the only person i can think of who would want get into some action with me to stop this kind of bullshit. but im also afraid he would go too far because he's really aggressive.

[rising7]

What can I say? It's a classic.

[cattygurl]

I voted yes, both.

A guy was doing the "ching chong" crap when I was in high school. I said something nasty back as a retort, and the dude went ballistic.

An old, balding guy chasing a 80 lb 14 year old down the street. How pathetic.

[Le Sheng Liu]

Catty, old guys chasing you seems to be the story of your life :lol: I voted No. I don't recall ever having had the ching chong song sang to me before. I also have not heard about the racist Adam Corrola joke.

[xian]

I voted yes. I've had people shout it at me when I was walking down the street with my girlfriend (first my ex- and also my wife), one time it was a bunch of frat boys who were getting very aggressive.

The question I have is "How the fuck do they know?" Many Asian people can't figure out that I'm Asian, how do these whiteys do it?

[Scaramanga]

I also answered both.

When I used to live in the Eastern Suburbs (which in my experience was like a white enclave of Sydney), I remember getting harassed my passing motorists (including a school bus filled with 8-12 year olds). Standing in a bus stop, some random teen would start making the, "It's feeling a little bit nippy, isn't it?" spiel to one of his friends. Sometimes, you'll just be walking on a sidewalk and another random teen gets all up in your face and calls you a nipper (yes, I know that there seems to be fairly limited amount of slurs to call slant-eyes like us). :)

[wzhao553]

Well, this does depend on what race you are, right? I have trouble imagining Southeast Asians getting the Ching-Chong mockery. But for me, yes, it happens not that uncommonly.

[minbo]

The more polynesian or austranesian you look the less you will get the Ching Chong. The reality is to most people in the US and to some extent Europe, if you look slightly asian you are automaticly Chinese or Japanese. Some people just don't care and we are all damn Gooks.

So are you Chinese or Japanese?

No, we are Laotian.

The ocean? What ocean?

From Laos, stupid! It's a landlocked country in South East Asia between Vietnam and Thailand, population approximately seven million!

(after a few seconds of silence)

So are you Chinese or Japanese?

[tonic]

I voted yes.

Carolla is on the hit list.

[nskripchun]

^Yeah, I hope they kick his ass off that radio and onto the curb.

And to think I used to like "The Man Show" on Comedy Central... booooo.

[seoulbrotherno1]

Dude, Ching Chong was a part of my everyday experience going up. I also experienced it at College. After I moved to Hawaii, I learned that local Asians think it is hilarious and do it too.

Here in Corea, I met a Corean American who wanted to regale me with his ability to speak "Vietnamese" (in ching chong dialect, of course.) I told him that I would break his legs if he did, and then all of the sudden I am an asshole for being violent.

sb1

[silkie]

^Yeah, I hope they kick his ass off that radio and onto the curb.

And to think I used to like "The Man Show" on Comedy Central... booooo.

Yeah, and just to think the Man Show often features Asian Hotties bouncing on trampolines...

[badwill]

A yes here as well, I think the overwhelming consensus is a big YES. What pissed me off is the guy who said the award sounds like a joke. WTF... :x :x :x

[Tyger Durden]

It is definitely fighting words.

[Hater Depot]

http://youtube.com/w/Ching-Chong.?v=zsLVfZLeT2g

[nskripchun]

http://youtube.com/w/Ching-Chong.?v=zsLVfZLeT2g

annoying kids.

there's where racism takes root and grows... in ignorant young minds.

[Rabid]

I've gotten both.. not so much violent but in a malicious, nasty way. Also not just when I was young but also when I was older, even in university and later. Pathetic.

[elliott20]

yes on both kinds.

last person who did that to me got cold cold stares from everyone around him though. Seriously, how the fuck does somebody think that mocking Chinese people in fucking Chinatown was a good idea? I'm surprised nobody jammed a blade into his stomach there and then.

[LaiSteve66]

It's never happened to me.

[cattygurl]

The question I have is "How the fuck do they know?" Many Asian people can't figure out that I'm Asian, how do these whiteys do it?

My friend is South American (Brazilian). He does not have a drop of asian blood in him. He gets the ching-chong every now and then, and got it as a kid. It used to confuse the hell out of him AND the people doing it. He would be like...

J: "I'm not asian. Was that meant for me?"

Racist Asshole: "whaddya mean you're not asian?"

J: "I'm from Brazil. Brazil's not in asia. South americans aren't asian."

Racist Asshole: "....."

Racist Asshole: "Fucking spic..."

J: Actually, I'm more Portugese than anything.

Racist Asshole: "...."

[elliott20]

after a while, it just sounds like your friend's just trying to further confusing the asshole for his own amusement.

[awong]

some was calling it to my sister at her soccer game yesterday and called her a foreigner. So during the game she knocked the girl down at every chance and called her white trash every time.

[nskripchun]

some was calling it to my sister at her soccer game yesterday and called her a foreigner. So during the game she knocked the girl down at every chance and called her white trash every time.

damn, girls' sports are brutal

[awong]

some was calling it to my sister at her soccer game yesterday and called her a foreigner. So during the game she knocked the girl down at every chance and called her white trash every time.

damn, girls' sports are brutal
girls sports are...I hear all these stories after the game its crazy, I never hear this from my brothers games

[lycheng]

I grew up on the pacific island of Guam, and boy did I get the ching-chong thing! Not only did they call me by that name, they threw rocks, shoes and books, trying to instigate a fight. This all occurred during the early 70's when there weren't that many East Asians on the island. This was also during the popularity of the TV show Kung Fu, hence the need to fight me. The teasing didn't really stop until late in High School.

Who were they? They were kids of Chamorro (indigenous Micronesian people) and Filipino background. Funny thing is that, if there were here in the States, at least for some of the "East Asian looking" Filipino's, they would get the ching-chong thing too.

By the way, I don't hold a grudge against any ethinic group who did that stuff to me.

lycheng

[Nordic]

I haven't gotten that, of course, because I am white. However, last autumn I met a half-Indonesian (ethnic Chinese) and half-white guy and had a drink with him. When he went to the restrooms, some idiot said to him "Go to China!". I was so chocked to hear that stupid Finnish guy say that. On one hand, I wanted to go and smack him as hard as I could. On the other hand, I would have hurt the Asian (I say now that he's Asian: he looked A LOT more Asian than white) guy's masculinity. I wrote about that in another discussion forum, and most people wrote that the best thing is to ignore. Some people wrote that the Asian guy should have beaten him up. But you can't really argue with a drunken guy, and that kid was probably drunk anyway. The Asian guy probably has gotten that kind of shit a lot, but I was so hurt how my date was insulted. :(

Do you have any tips on what I should do if I end up in that kind of situation in the future?

[aelward]

I got the ching-chong thing all the time when I was growing up. With very little understanding of Asian identity back then, I just sort of ignored it. In the last 15 years, it has only happened once... in 2003, I was taking a walk with my wife and these frat boys on a perpendicular side street drove up to the light (which was now behind us) and started making monkey sounds. I turned around, walked up to the driver-side window and asked them what the #)*@# they had just said in a very threatening manner. The driver became very apologetic. But as soon as their light turned green, he gunned the engine and screamed it out again.

I can take satisfaction that I made him my biyatch for a few seconds, though...

[evil_FUX]

I haven't gotten that, of course, because I am white. However, last autumn I met a half-Indonesian (ethnic Chinese) and half-white guy and had a drink with him. When he went to the restrooms, some idiot said to him "Go to China!". I was so chocked to hear that stupid Finnish guy say that. On one hand, I wanted to go and smack him as hard as I could. On the other hand, I would have hurt the Asian (I say now that he's Asian: he looked A LOT more Asian than white) guy's masculinity. I wrote about that in another discussion forum, and most people wrote that the best thing is to ignore. Some people wrote that the Asian guy should have beaten him up. But you can't really argue with a drunken guy, and that kid was probably drunk anyway. The Asian guy probably has gotten that kind of shit a lot, but I was so hurt how my date was insulted.

Do you have any tips on what I should do if I end up in that kind of situation in the future?

Nah, i think he would've dug it if you stuck up for him. And if not for him, then just in general. It might, although most likely not, make the guy think before acting.