![]() ![]() ![]() Actor and musician Jimmy Wong responded with this parody song: " 'Ching Chong,' it means 'I love you.' ")Īnd comedian Stephen Colbert received flak this past March when a staffer tweeted, "I am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever," from the show's account. In 2011, University of California, Los Angeles student Alexandra Wallace posted a YouTube video where she ranted about Asian students using cellphones in the library. I was like, really? I didn't know that," O'Donnell said after.) Some people have told me it's as bad as the N-word. ("So apparently 'ching-chong,' unbeknownst to me, is a very offensive way to make fun, quote-unquote, or mock, Asian accents. ![]() ("Tell Yao Ming, 'Ching chong yang, wah, ah soh,' " he said in a TV interview.) Rosie O'Donnell said it in 2006 when imagining a Chinese newscast of a drunken Danny DeVito. In 2003, Shaquille O'Neal tossed the phrase out when referring to Yao Ming. Every few years - or if we're considering more recent history, every few months - we hear in the news of someone referring to a person of Asian descent with the age-old phrase "Ching Chong." ![]()
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