I agree with what you are saying except that Ching Chong is not tongue and cheek and dumb. These words should not be taken lightly. Ching Chong has deep ugly roots in America and they are fighting words. See below. For some reason there seems to be a fascination with bonking Chinese in the head. If Rosie did not know the history, she owes the public then to be part of an educational process. I urge you write to The View. Cheers. From Wikipedia: Ching Chong Chinaman sitting on a fence Trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents. Along came a choo-choo train, Knocked him in the cuckoo-brain, And that was the end of the fifteen cents. Mary Paik Lee, a Korean immigrant who arrived with her family in San Francisco in 1906, writes in her autobiography that on her first day of school, girls circled and hit her, chanting: Ching Chong, Chinaman, Sitting on a wall. Along came a white man, And chopped his head off.
I understand what your saying, but i don't need wikipedia to tell me what ching chong means. I grew up listening to that all day long. I still think it was a random remark, however fatty isn't too high on my list of people to take seriously...
I am sorry that you had to grow up listening to it. I never meant to imply that your experience was less until Wikipedia certifies it. I was just trying to show that the expression has a long history of use in America, and in a very negative and insulting manner. Some people have said that ching chong is comparable to the n'word. Others have said that it is not where equivalent and that ching chong is innocent. I will be first to acknowledge that the n'word brings along a lot of horrible history, but c'words have not been used innocently. They were part of the culture that led to the Chinese Exclusion Act.
no need to apologize... i'd have a hard time being convinced that "ching chong" and *igger are equals. First off, the way the words are treated is a dead give away. You have to refer to the N word...well as the n word. There is no C word. Although both are offensive, I just think the N word carries more "weight" particularly because it carries other connotations other than color...
