Her comment on Chinese people's language where she used the words, "Ching, ching, ching."
2006-12-15 03:06:23 · 19 answers · asked by Neerdowellian 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
"Ching chong, ching chong" is often used by racists to taunt Asians (not just Chinese). It's intent is to mock Asian languages and belittle the subject. In that regard, it is racist. Imagine someone making monkey sounds to African-Americans and you'll have a better idea how "Ching chong" is often used.
As far as Rosie goes, I believe her when she says her intent was not to mock. She and most other people don't seem to realize actual bigots use "Ching chong" in a condescending and racist manner.
I hope that clears this up.
2006-12-15 09:01:41 · answer #1 · answered by Krnboi 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't think it was, like she said , I didn't know those words would be offensive.
Rosie has been rude and abrasive since she "came out" -- I used to love her show, I watched it everyday and thought she was the coolest, most real, fun person ever on a talk show. Then she decided to "come out" and then became very unlikable. And it wasn't cuz she said she's gay at all, I think we all already knew that. She's angry at the world for some reason.
She was at least mocking the Chinese language, but I don't think she did it as an intentional racist thing. A lot of people mock a lot of languages. It happens, I don't think it should be such a big deal. People need to just get over themselves and see the heart of the speaker more. Some things are unintentionally offensive and we need to be able to see that.
2006-12-15 11:42:36 · answer #2 · answered by BaseballGrrl 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I didn´t think so. But then again i´m not chinese. When i heard she said something racist I was wondering what it was. On hearing ching chong, ching chong, I thought to myself, can´t anyone take a joke, anymore.
2006-12-15 11:14:58 · answer #3 · answered by marchurian 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't care for Rosie, but this time I"ll stick up for her. She apologized yesterday on the View for offending anyone. It wasn't her intent. I think she was just trying to be funny and it got blown out of proportion. She said she didn't know ching,ching, meant anything. And I believe her.
2006-12-15 11:44:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I am an American, but my ancestry is dominated by a Germanic lineage.
Just the other day I was IMing with a friend of mine and he started IMing back with his words accentuated in faux-German ("vill" instead of "will", "ze" instead of "the", --- you get the picture)...
Now, I ask you: Should I have been angered by this stereotypical mocking of my German ancestry? --- Of course not!
The saddest thing that has come out of the Rosie O'Donnell, and also the Michael Richards, incident is the realization that our society continues to try to erase the already woefully blurred line between insult and humor,... between what is real and what is imagined. We have become, for the most part, a society of thin-skinned, "whiners":
My kid is failing in school, so it must be a teacher's fault...
[NO! Your kid is lazy and inattentive because you have failed to discipline your kid's behavior.]
I'm an alcoholic, so it must be my parents fault...
[NO! You are a drunken sot because you have found it easier to seek sympathy for the pathetic conditions brought on by your refusal to exercise your own willpower to remedy them.]
I am overweight , so it must be McDonald's fault...
[NO!... You are a fvcking FAT-A55 because you would much rather stimulate your palate by eating a triple Quarter-Pounder with Cheese, Large Fries (and a diet Coke) than stimulate your metabolism by exercising.]
I'm mad because somebody said something that I didn't like...
[NO! You are mad because you have been conditioned to be so by those who see political-correctness as a tool to gain sympathy, --- and all the benefits that now go with it.]
Must I go on?...
Words are just that: Words...
To get upset at something that someone says, especially when it is obviously in jest, is the mark of an addled mind.
It's time to put down the dogma of political correctness so that we may, once again, --- not take ourselves so damn seriously...
2006-12-16 10:24:53 · answer #5 · answered by Saint Christopher Walken 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes and in poor taste.
Her comments offend English speaking Chinese people everywhere.
Maybe she can invite a Chinese person on the View to call her a big fat obnoxious lesbo in Chinese. This should even the score and she's a comedian, she's got thick skin, so she'll get a good laugh out of it too.
2006-12-15 14:34:16 · answer #6 · answered by Tomo718 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think that if anyone should be offended by her remarks, it should be comedians or Americans. Every hearing person knows the Chinese language doesn't sound like that- there are high tones, low intonations- it sounds a bit complicated. Then there's Rosie's voice. Annoying! So her lame comments really could just give Americans or comedians a bad name.
2006-12-15 11:10:55 · answer #7 · answered by AMEWzing 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Rosie is totally offensive all by herself - especially when she opens her big, filthy, ugly, mouth. Why anyone would want to put up with her is beyond normal intelligence.
2006-12-15 11:13:43 · answer #8 · answered by Easy G 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no. but if someone else had said the same thing, then she would be yelling with her big mouth that the other person is a racist. she needs to shut up her big mouth
2006-12-15 11:11:48 · answer #9 · answered by sandlin.melissa@sbcglobal.net 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They were about as racist as Kelly Ripa's "comment" was homophobic.
2006-12-15 12:03:41 · answer #10 · answered by Jayna 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋