# Asians In The Library Asians In The Library is a 2011 YouTube rant by UCLA student Alexandra Wallace mocking Asian classmates in the campus library, most notorious for her 'ching chong ling long ting tong' impression of Asian speech. The clip triggered a wave of response videos and parodies, and Wallace left UCLA within a week after receiving death threats. ## Overview Asians In The Library is a viral rant posted to YouTube in March 2011 by UCLA student Alexandra Wallace, who complained about Asian classmates using cell phones and speaking loudly at the campus library while impersonating their speech with the phrase 'ching chong ling long ting tong' [3]. The three-minute clip surfaced the same week as the Tōhoku earthquake and included a jab about Asian students calling family 'from the tsunami thing' [1]. Reposted copies racked up more than a million views and produced hundreds of remixes plus a Facebook hate page [1]. The video is often remembered less for Wallace's rant itself than for the wave of response videos that followed, including musical parodies and rebuttals from Asian YouTubers [2]. ## How It Spread The day after the upload, Wallace emailed a formal apology to the UCLA student newspaper The Daily Bruin, writing that she wished she could undo the video [1]. She asked campus police for help after getting death threats by phone and email, and had to consider rescheduling her finals when her exam timetable was leaked online [1]. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block released a video statement calling her comments appalling, though the university said Wallace would not face discipline because the rant qualified as free speech rather than hate speech [3]. International outlets including the Daily Mail picked up the story within days [1], and the LA Times' L.A. Now blog reported on the mounting death threats against Wallace [4]. NPR then reported that after a second public apology, Wallace dropped out of UCLA the following Friday [2]. Musician Jimmy Wong answered with a four-minute folk-guitar parody, 'The Asians in the Library Song,' which was the first Wallace response video to top a million views, and he appeared on NPR's All Things Considered on March 24, 2011 to say he would love to meet Wallace for coffee and give her 'a big hug' [2]. Nearly a year later, The Economist ran a piece titled 'Making ting tong cool' reporting that Wallace's clip was still cited as a joke at UCLA even as rising Chinese enrollment was softening those stereotypes on campus [3]. ## How to Use The clip is typically referenced by quoting Wallace's mocking impression of Asian speech, and the original video was pulled from YouTube within hours of posting [1]. Circulating versions are mirror reposts, often paired with Jimmy Wong's musical response as counter-context [2]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Asians In The Library? Asians In The Library is a 2011 YouTube rant by UCLA student Alexandra Wallace complaining about Asian classmates using cell phones and speaking loudly in the campus library, notorious for her mocking impression of Asian speech [1]. ### Where did Asians In The Library come from? Alexandra Wallace, a third-year UCLA political science student, uploaded the three-minute clip to her personal YouTube channel on a Friday afternoon in mid-March 2011 [1]. ### What does Asians In The Library mean? The title refers to Wallace's complaints about Asian students in the UCLA library, but the phrase is used as shorthand for the racist rant itself and the response videos it triggered from Asian YouTubers [2]. ### How do you use Asians In The Library? It is typically referenced by quoting Wallace's 'ching chong ling long ting tong' impression or by pairing mirror copies of the original with Jimmy Wong's musical response as counter-context [2]. ### Is Asians In The Library still popular? The original video was deleted within hours of posting in 2011, and Wallace left UCLA the following week after a second apology, though The Economist reported in 2012 that the clip was still cited as a joke on campus [3]. ## References 1. [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366132/Alexandra-Wallace-YouTube-racist-Asian-rant-day-Japan-tsunami.html]() 2. [https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/03/24/134827618/jimmy-wong-wants-to-give-alexandra-wallace-a-big-hug]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/asians-in-the-library]() 4. [https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/03/ucla-student-who-posted-racist-youtube-video-receives-death-threats.html]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/asians-in-the-library Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library