{"id":1816,"date":"2013-10-18T09:28:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T16:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2013-10-18T09:28:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T16:28:24","slug":"chinese-food-viral-video-is-hilariously-addictive-not-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/2013\/10\/18\/chinese-food-viral-video-is-hilariously-addictive-not-offensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Food Viral Video is Hilariously Addictive, Not Offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now you have probably seen the crazy viral &#8220;Chinese Food&#8221; video brought to you by Ark Music Factory and sung by 11 year old Alison Gold. Ark Music Factory is the same company that brought us Rebecca Black&#8217;s Friday. <\/p>\n<p>But now people are saying that this video is racist and offensive. I say that is crazy talk. To get everyone up to speed, here is the video (which as of this post publishing has close to 8.5 million views)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wWLhrHVySgA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/entertainment\/2013\/10\/chinese-food-song-deemed-offensive-viral-video-producer-responds\/\">ABC News story on the controversy over &#8220;Chinese Food&#8221; by Alison Gold is racist.<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"kaltura_player_1382111741\" height=\"221\" width=\"392\" style=\"border: 0px solid #ffffff;\" src=\"http:\/\/cdnapi.kaltura.com\/index.php\/extwidget\/embedIframe\/entry_id\/0_xpj190vn\/widget_id\/_483511\/uiconf_id\/5590821?referer=http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Nightline\/video\/chinese-food-song-racist-20594614&amp;flashvars[autoPlay]=false&amp;addThis.playerSize=392x221&amp;freeWheel.siteSectionId=nws_offsite&amp;closedCaptionActive=false&amp;\">Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames.<\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>This video isn&#8217;t racist, it&#8217;s painfully bad and hilariously addictive.<\/h2>\n<h3>Sure, It is riddled with inaccuracies like adding Japanese Geisha&#8217;s to a video about &#8220;Chinese Food&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/alison_gold_chinese_food_geisha.jpg\" alt=\"alison_gold_chinese_food_geisha\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/alison_gold_chinese_food_geisha.jpg 625w, https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/alison_gold_chinese_food_geisha-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the beginning is of a Mongolian grill not a Chinese restaurant<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/alison_gold_chinese_food_mongolian_grill.png\" alt=\"alison_gold_chinese_food_mongolian_grill\" width=\"617\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/alison_gold_chinese_food_mongolian_grill.png 617w, https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/alison_gold_chinese_food_mongolian_grill-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And it is borderline creepy that a grown adult dressed up like a panda bear is tickling young girls.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/alison_gold_chinese_food_pedobear_tickling.jpg\" alt=\"alison_gold_chinese_food_pedobear_tickling\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/alison_gold_chinese_food_pedobear_tickling.jpg 625w, https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/alison_gold_chinese_food_pedobear_tickling-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And it is confusing that there are different languages being subtitled throughout the video (not just Chinese)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/alison_gold_chinese_food_different_languages.jpg\" alt=\"alison_gold_chinese_food_different_languages\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/alison_gold_chinese_food_different_languages.jpg 625w, https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/alison_gold_chinese_food_different_languages-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But,  it is a chorus that you will find yourself singing because the tune is catchy.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/song-stuck-in-head.gif\" alt=\"song-stuck-in-head\" width=\"715\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1824\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And you it will make you want Chinese food because Chinese food rules.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/chinese_food_rules.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/chinese_food_rules.jpeg\" alt=\"chinese_food_rules\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1823\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes people need to stop defaulting to anything remotely culture-based being a personal attack on a racial group. Is it inaccurate? Sure. But who cares? Or maybe that is just me. I have never been one to take offense to stuff like this. When I saw the geisha thing I said to myself &#8220;Heh, close enough&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t say that to slander the rich cultural differences between Asian cultures. I do it because it&#8217;s amusingly naive. I have been accused of being insensitive to my own race before (I&#8217;m Chinese) when I created <a href=\"http:\/\/chelvislives.com\">Chelvis: the Chinese Elvis<\/a>. I did it because it&#8217;s funny. I used stereotypes to promote myself because stereotypes are formed from reality. <\/p>\n<h2>There&#8217;s nothing to see here people.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now you have probably seen the crazy viral &#8220;Chinese Food&#8221; video brought to you by Ark Music Factory and sung by 11 year old Alison Gold. Ark Music Factory is the same company that brought us Rebecca Black&#8217;s Friday. But now people are saying that this video is racist and offensive. I say that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}