Today, I was asked to prove that I was Chinese by translating the phrase, "Ching chong ming chang ho". I'm not even Chinese. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I was eating at a Chinese restaurant, when I stopped the waitress to tell her that even though I am of Chinese heritage, I can't understand a word of Chinese. After an awkward silence, she told me she was actually speaking English. FML
Today, at a tutoring center, one of the tutors looked at my worksheet and laughed. She then showed all the other tutors my mistakes and they laughed along with her. The best part? They all speak Chinese and they think I can't understand them. I'm Chinese. FML
Today, a customer called me "chink eyes", "dog eater", "bloody Chinese communist" and "ching chong." I'm black. FML
Today, I was trying to get my girlfriend to speak Mandarin. After speaking her first words and taking a break, she posted on Facebook: "I speak ching chong! :D :D :D" FML
Today, I was told the Mandarin greeting that my new Chinese friends at school taught me was not really a greeting at all. I've been proclaiming "I'm a dumb bitch" every time I've greeted them, almost every day for the past month. FML
Today, an Asian man approached me and called me pretty. I thanked him and he asked if I'm Chinese. When I said, "No, I'm Taiwanese" he promptly spat in my face and called me a "traitor to the motherland." FML
Today, I got a 31% on a Chinese test at school. I moved here to New Jersey from China two months ago. FML
Today, I called the Vietnamese teacher at my son's kindergarten by my Chinese colleague's name. Luckily, she didn't catch it. I'm not a racist, I was just tired after a long day. FML
Today, in algebra, I took out my notebook. My Chinese teacher was so impressed with my "Chinese" writings on the cover that I'm now her "favorite student". Those "Chinese" symbols are actually Japanese, but I wanted someone to like me so badly that I didn't correct her. FML
Today, my boss's son is training to take over my job as head translator, after having convinced his dad that he's fluent in Spanish, and that my skills suck. I soon walked in on him using Google Translate on a legal document. My boss refuses to believe me. FML
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Top comments
deathstroke990 22
@everyone asking for op to translate it: it doesn't mean anything, its a pejorative phrase used by racist idiots to mock the Chinese language.
ourtneyc 14
people can be so ignorant OP
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Comments (105)
WAKingUP91 11
jeeze, sounds like ******* Hartsville.
TCKM416 15
Just typed it into google translate, it doesn't translate to anything
AdamTodddBrown 11
You know if you'd just said "it mean egg roll almost ready" and had a laugh you could've been over and done with that in a second.
quackImapenguin 16
Humoring the racists is not an acceptable solution. That just reinforces that what they did was okay when it's not.
Jenmic 16
When the OP stated I am not Chinese, I am guessing she is of an another Asian ancestry ( Korean, Japanese, etc). Still ignorant of the guy though.
atlien247 16
I think the more sensitive approach would be "papers, please."
franpalma 3
I'm from SC, and know that racism is alive and well! I'm sorry that you had to deal with this!
iMuffinKat 16
I think they weren't actually trying to make you translate it...they were trying to find a "creative" way in being racist. But still, I'm Chinese and I laughed so hard at this post XDDD but I hate it when people imitate my language like that.
MattNobles 7
Lol that shit cracked me up
MSCCG 16
For those wondering, that actually translates to "go f yourself"