Meet Alexandra Wallce 2.0: Samuel Hendrickson, a student from Indiana University, has made a video detailing 10 reasons why he wouldn’t want to be Asian. His reasons include dating Asian women, sweatshops and math.
Since he posted it on YouTube, people have responded negatively, prompting Hendrickson to apologize, 8Asians reports. He defends the video as merely humorous digs, but the “jokes” he spews are based on very real stereotypes.
Let’s be frank: racism still exists. Racist jokes aren’t funny. Because we accept racism in our everyday humor, we see the perpetuation of micro-aggressions and misconceptions. If our culture didn’t give racist jabs a green light under the guise of a “good joke,” we wouldn’t see college campuses – areas where we should be challenging and criticizing racism – “border hopping” or “ghetto” theme parties.
Why are supposedly educated individuals continuing a dialogue rooted in ignorance?
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This guy does not go to Notre Dame, Indiana, or any other college. He even says in the video how very stupid he is and almost didn’t graduate because he doesn’t know basic math. This is just some numbnuts who thought he was funny but he is finding out in a hurry how funny he is.
@ “The Truth” – it’s not about sending him death threats. who said that? i’m not promoting violence. that’s never the answer. it’s just the ignorance of the video that’s upsetting. would you really not be upset if someone said those things to you? yes, he just needs to be educated but your comment proves your ignorance. if you’re so-called “the truth,” maybe you should realize posting these things allow people to be aware of the situation and not blind to it because that makes us ignorant too. if you don’t care, then what do you care about?
“The Truth” is more offended by people speaking out against racism than he is of actual racism. Also, his fathers’ and grandfathers’ racism (but strangely, not his) is “far worse” than the video poster’s, so the poster’s ignorance and inexperience with Asians is supposed to make it OK. Wow. This is mindboggling idiocy right here.
Who cares? As a Korean guy I’m more offended by people giving a fuck about this kind of stuff than this actual video’s content. Our fathers and grandfathers are far more racist than this guy, and it is because they haven’t had the opportunity to share the land with the others. The same thing goes for this guy. Obviously this guy is just ignorant and inexperienced with Asians. Well, what now? Are we going to have a bunch of Asian people sending him death threats? Will that make us any better?
This guy is ridiculous! I don’t understand how this is a “joke”. It’s clearly personal, where he commented on Asian looks and not wanting to date Asian women. I couldn’t watch the whole video because it was THAT upsetting. He’s so ignorant. I think the most annoying thing is that he thinks Asians all look alike!
Hi Wendy,
Thank you for pointing that out — we have made the necessary correction.
I work in the office of News and Information Services at the University of Southern Indiana. The content of this video is concerning, but Samuel Hendrickson is not a student at USI. We would appreciate it if you would correct your article.