I am not sure if anyone watched this popular racist video a tourist captured a tour guide was giving a racist speech during her bus tour in San Francisco Chinatown. Her rant was about Chinese and the Chinatown neighborhood she was living in. Please watch before you read further: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxRUsPnzhPk
Apparently, the tour guide was holding a bottle, cursing Chinese and
rant about how the Chinatown neighborhood disturbed her life, giving negative
comments on the food or market in the Chinatown and commented how Chinese should
“assimilate” American style. As you can see from the youtube comments, her rant
made everyone very mad even people from other race. When the news interviewed
this tour guide, she said it was her last day of work and trying to make the
last tour entertaining like a "comedy"!
Personally, I do not think this is funny at all, if you look at the
video around 1:43, she even asked the tourist to curse with her and they did! I
also do not agree with her comments such as how building a Bart station affect
the traffic was related to a race, or how preschoolers made noise early in
the morning only happen in the Chinatown or Chinese neighborhood only. What is also ironic is the tourist applaud
her speech, which sent a strong message to the tour guide that they agreed with
her.
This tour guide may have bad and negative experience with Chinese people;
however, it is not the right place to rant the non-sense and untruth statements
about any races or cultures in a tour. It is not professional as a guide. I am not sure how to stop rant like this, but if there is myth about this community, I think what could be change in this incident is maybe Chinatown could host events to show the bright sides of Chinatown to break all these myths and answer questions about Chinese and Chinatown. There was one point that she was right that Chinatown has too many people sometimes, personally I do not go to Chinatown often too as it is too crowded. I hope the Chinatown community could also educate their residents about cleanliness and be a responsible citizen, as San Francisco was being so generous to Chinese people by allowing them to have a town that represents their cultures. On the other hand, people should be respectful to others cultures. No one force you to like any cultures, yet as an adult, we need to be responsible to our acts and respect others.
Something to think about is why there was no one stand up to against this rant video, no one make protest about her rant tour or ask for apology. What if this tour guide was rant about other races or what if she is from other races? Is this another example of institutionalized prejudice/racism?
Hi Joyce, all I have to say is......ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! I cannot believe what I was listening to and what was even more frustrating is that no one shut her up. There were actually people on bus who were encouraging her by clapping! Really!! I would have asked to get off that tour bus as fast as I got on. This person defined this as "comedy." I would like to know one person who thought that was funny! Every word she spoke was based on stereotypes and biases that she has learned. Allowing her to rant on and not putting an end to it shows that people still encourage and listen to the stereotypes people have about race. Her rant was disgusting! How can we try and eradicate racism when people are allowed to act in such ways?
ReplyDeleteThat video made me mad!!!
Thank you for sharing such an impactful video!
Take care,
Stephanie
Hi Joyce,
ReplyDeleteGreat example for this week's assignment, however I disagree with everything the tour guide is saying. Despite what is being said, she should not being making these judgments and personal opinions and biases about another culture during her work place. I can't believe her boss allowed this type of immoral dialogue to occur. Like Stephanie Ray mentioned in her comment, I would jump off the bus and then call the customer service and tell them how offended I was and to also demand a refund.