| A UCLA studentequipped with a dorm room, a pushup bra, a webcam and two minutes fifty-two seconds too much free time -- managed to ignite a "Kill the Beast"-caliber Internet mob in a matter of hours on Sunday afternoon. As reports of thousands more deaths and unthinkable destruction in the aftermath of Japan's 9.0 earthquake streamed in, Wallace made the reputation-shattering decision to take her beef with "these hordes of Asian people that UCLA accepts into our school every year" public: The lowlights (pretty much the entire thing): "So we know that I'm not the most politically correct person, so don't take this offensively..." "If you're going to come to UCLA, then use American manners." "Seriously, without fail, you will always see old Asian people running around this apartment complex every weekend. That's what they do -- they don't teach their kids to fend for themselves." "You know what they don't also teach them? Is their manners. Which brings me to my next point: Hi. In America, we do not talk on our cell phones in the library! I swear, every five minutes I will be -- OK, not five minutes, say like, 15 minutes -- I'll be like deep into my studying, into my political-science theories and arguments and all that stuff, getting it all down, like typing away furiously, blah blah blah... and then all of a sudden, when I'm about to like, reach an epiphany -- over here from somewhere, 'OHHH! CHING CHONG LING LONG TING TONG? OHHH!'" "So being the polite nice American girl ... |