A video by Mixed Company of Yale, an a cappella group, released a spin on Beyonce's 'Single Ladies', entitled 'Single Asians.'

One of the verses goes something like this:


Etymology:

The phrase "me love you long time" and the accompanying "me so horny" originates from the Stanley Kubrick film Full Metal Jacket. In the movie, UK actress Papillon Soo Soo (credited as "Da Nang Hooker") speaks the lines:

Hey baby, you got girlfriend Vietnam? Me so horny. Me love you long time.

So there you have it. According to IvyGate who contacted the group, Mixed Company at Yale feels no qualms about posting this video. Full of endless (often derrogatory) sterotypes.

I really don't have time (in the midst of studying for a midterm) to write an extensive post about this recent blogging phenomena I just found out from Racialicious, but you just have to check this out...

Recently three (maybe more?) blogs inspired by Stuff White People Like have popped up online. These blogs include: Stuff Asian People Like, Stuff Black People Love, and Stuff Educated Black People Like.

I like to think of these blogs as "Stuff White People Like About Asian/Black/Educated Black People" blogs, which are kind of meta-parodies of defensive white people themselves.

But ironically, these are lists self-purportedly compiled by Asian/Black/Educated people themselves. I may be just wrong about the tone and intent of these blogs, but these are interesting things to think about - the self-parody of one's own culture/race/ identity. (Or they may actually be written by white people behind the strategically race-effacing interweb.)

Still, I think what changes when we see blogs like these spring up are the types of insight that they display. SWhitePL spoke to issues that illuminate white privilege - (things like Graduate School, which people of color disproportionately do not have the financial independence to pursue in lieu of making money.) The new blogs just make fun of aspects of their respective cultures; the SAsianPL blog just sheds light upon how, say, Asian people like rice. Why, we do happen to like rice.

What do you think? Thoughts in the comments.

It's called Stuff White People Like.

Introduced to us by Nhu-Y, SWPL is formatted as an ongoing list of, well, stuff that white people like (mmm, race normativity). Each entry is a new item on the list, and each is chock-full of satirical logorrhea. SWYPL's writers spare their readers the agony of figuring out the point of this blog by leaving a refreshingly short and anthropological self-description:

This is a scientific approach to highlight and explain stuff white people like. They are pretty predictable.

Now if parody isn't your thing, or if you are easily riled by anything racially suggestive / easily offensive (e.g. A Shot At Love), then avoid this site at all costs. It just so happens that David and I are South Park junkies, so we love parody and -- in recognizing the problematic practice of scientifically studying races -- love this shit. We hope against hope, however, that it really is parody that drives this blog.

Some favorites include:

#11 Asian Girls
#45 Asian Fusion Food
#62 Knowing what's best for poor people
#66 Divorce

Read, laugh, and enjoy.