In it, one male interviewer refers to Cheung as “me love you long time,” mocking her application. A story from Chicago went viral in July 2019 when Connie Cheung, a twenty-seven year-old Chinese-American job applicant, got an email that she was accidentally copied on.
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The phrase has also become so commonplace over the years that some feel comfortable enough to use it in a professional setting. Some have likened it to reclaiming the word “bitch,” but, because of its harmful use specifically towards Asian women, I believe that only women of the Asian diaspora should be the ones reclaiming it. Fergie’s used it in a track, as well as Nelly Furtado and Mariah Carey. Even non-Asian women have appropriated the phrase in the music world. It's in South Park and Family Guy, in 40 Year Old Virgin and Tommy Boy. The phrase is pervasive in mainstream entertainment. Unfortunately, it’s become a way to put down any Asian-looking woman virtually unchecked.
Through the years, “Me love you long time” has mutated beyond a phrase related to a Vietnamese sex worker. I had a strong sense that very few, if any, of the ‘short-timers’ were hardened prostitutes.” He says that “long time” means the women's availability over the duration of the soldier's tour or beyond.
“A short-timer was a young woman who was willing to sell temporary time and access to her body. “My sense of the phrase is its inextricable relationship to a comparable phrase: The ‘short-timer ’” Butler says. From the reactions of the soldiers in the scene, it appears the Asian female character was being mocked.Īs for the accuracy of the usage of the phrase, I spoke with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler, who was in his twenties when he served as a translator in the American War in Vietnam. Unfortunately, we can’t ask the men who wrote the movie-Kubrick, Michael Herr, and Gustav Hasford (whose novel, The Short-Timers, became the movie), all of whom are dead-what their intentions were when they wrote that line of dialogue.
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Me love you long time,” the words were originally spoken by actress Papillon Soo Soo, who portrays a Vietnamese sex worker soliciting American GIs in the 1987 Stanley Kubrick film, Full Metal Jacket. While many think the phrase started in 1989 with a 2 Live Crew track in which female vocals ooze “Me so horny. While this should have happened ages ago, now is the time to make sure the use of this phrase as a weapon to belittle and objectify Asian and Asian-American women stops. Sixty-one percent of reported incidents happened to Asian and Asian diaspora women, largely due to the hypersexualization of them. Asian hate crimes have disproportionately been an Asian women’s issue. It's used to reduce Asian and Asian-American women to sex objects. It’s a weaponized phrase deployed to put down Asian diaspora women, to make us the joke. To many Asian-American women, hearing the phrase “Me love you long time” can be completely de-humanizing and traumatic.Yet this hasn’t stopped the phrase from casually entering various areas of pop culture, school yards, and the music and fashion industries. She felt uncomfortable and couldn't figure out why boys were directing this broken English at her and not at any other kids. Kate Marley, a twenty-nine year old American actress adopted from South Korea by white parents, heard it on the playground in a Catholic elementary school in Tacoma, Washington. Phung Huynh, a Vietnamese-American boat person refugee painter and educator, recalls that she was a ten year old visiting her teenage male Vietnamese-American cousins in Miami, who were laughing and pointing at the Full Metal Jacket scene on TV. The second time I was in college at a house party and then the guy added, ‘love me MORE long time because you’re ugly.’ Both times white women made excuses or said nothing.” “The first time it happened to me I was in high school, visiting a nursing home in Minnesota,” Ko remembers. Naomi Ko, a Korean-American woman who created and stars in NICE, the series, tells me about hearing those words.
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