"Ching-chong"

[James Harbeck]

I didn't see the episode, but I suspect the "ching-chong" was a
reference to that anti-Asian rant on YouTube ("Asians in the
library") that made an instant villain of UCLA student Alexandra
Wallace? It was all over the web a two weeks ago; she imitates an
Asian on the phone: "Ohhhh! Ching chong ling long ting tong?" See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQR01qltgo8

There's a rather good musical response to it at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zulEMWj3sVA .

It's just on the downslope of meme-of-the-moment now, I think.

James Harbeck.

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