'CSUN Asian Library Finals Freakout' Video Reignites 'Asians in the Library' Controversy

if she wanted peace in quiet she should go to a quiet park not the library on FINALS none the less at a college campus wehre theres tons of people some studying some not and majority sleeping

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While the person filming this "tantrum" (let's call it what it is) is no doubt provoking the outburst, the young woman's response is still over the top and unnecessary.  Its a library, people!  People talk (they're not supposed to, BUT THEY DO!!!) Its final week and people are gathering, exchanging notes, helping others out who get stuck on a problem, passing around bags of M&Ms to keep the energy up, etc.  If others talking was bothering her, then the woman should have found a library employee, who would have approached the other women, given them a verbal warning to keep their voices low and, if they continue to violate the rules, then escort them out.  Simple!  BTW, the library rule is not "NO TALKING" its "PLEASE WHISPER!"

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This black girls were so foolish to record the asian girl then post it so the whole world can see thier foolishness..its a shame, i have some good black friends and feel sorry for them each time  black like this mess up.Something is certainly wrong with the blacks attitude and it will take century to get it off their DNA

I have the scoop on this racist "McHype Media" guy.  This punk tried to mark my comment as spam on youtube so I'll post it here:

Look at this video, he's trying to do business with Asians and then he does this shit:http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=M4n_G00kyugThis McHype punk is doing a promo taking Asian business money, then he does this video?

@a5072cef09a440b58ae87fe6d8f6ae76:disqus They assume this because she is asian and they are black, why else would they assume this? Isn't that always the case

actually, this girl has aspergers ( a form of autism) and she may not have understood the appropriate way to take care of the situation. She goes to my school and is in a friend's class. I can't even believe this is on here... people obviously don't think about the backgrounds of people's lives and they automatically want to judge. I really hope she doesn't find out about this video. It will be devastating to her. We should all think a bit more about the people we target and things we post. 

Why is everyone calling her Asian?  I don't hear an accent. She's American. Just another American student losing their fucking minds during finals. Finals suck.

You all need to grow up.  Think about it.

Kids these days are so weird

that girl is probably the sister of that Korean dude who shot 30 people at VA Tech several years ago.   she seemed so distressed in the video because she was trying to decide whether to pull out the handgun in her backpack and kill those talking bitches while she is trying to study. 

Dont those white bitches know that this asian girl is going to get her ass kicked at home if she doesn't get Straight A's?  Looks like she took a few shots to the face with a 2x4 last semester.   don't make me go crasian on you!

It just goes to show you, some want to study and some just wanna distract others.  Disgusting guys time to grow up and get in the real world.

Let us move beyond the ethnicity here. It could have been any combo of race involved. The point is that one group was rude and one person over reacted. That is all. There is no philosophical discourse to be had here nor a conclusive sociological motif. However as always, the comments that follow are always more telling.

My personal belief is that social degradation starts with tolerance to the smallest of social misetiquette. I grew up in the 80's when we still had enough conviction left in us to think about others and to comply with common sense social compliance, vis a vis, ergo, being quiet in the library. There is no such thing as 'Asian behavior' in the library, no more than there is 'Black behavior' in a market. There are however 'Foreign behavior', in context particularly foreign students. And I do believe foreigners should try their best to learn and adopt some common etiquette and custom while their stay here, but hey, we have to leave room for some tolerance and understanding here, lest we forget the  'rude American tourists' that the French accuse us of.

Although she over reacted, we need more Americans to be like that. Especially the younger generations. Otherwise we are facing a generation that will leave quietly when they hear a rape victim across the hall, or leave a man bleeding in the streets to be robbed...if we can't stand up to rudeness, we can't stand up to evil.

It's really sad that a couple of girls who have nothing better to do, filmed this poor girl. It doesn't matter if she's Asian, or any other race; ridiculing someone else is disrespectful.

The week of finals is really stressful, and it's hard to study with people talking/goofing off, so it's understandable that she told those girls off. Besides, the library should be a place where you can quietly read and study.

Some libraries even have Maximum Quiet floors, which I have gone to, to study before; however, there have been plenty of times I've heard people talking and listening to really loud music, which is really annoying, due to the fact that it is a maximum quiet floor.

If they want to talk and study, or whatever, those girls should have gone somewhere else like a coffee shop. It really wasn't nice of them to egg her on like that. Also, it seems like they knew beforehand that she was going to confront them.

It could be that even before the film was shot, she asked them politely to quiet down. And maybe for a bit they did, but then started up again. Otherwise, how would they have possibly gotten all of that footage without knowing something would happen?

I do not understand why the writer of this article felt it necessary to comment that the videographers of this incident, "...sound black,...".  I didn't think there was anything black-sounding about them, nor do I understand why that is relevant to the story.  So what if the freaker-outer is Asian, and so what if the videographers are black?  This is an amusing incident no matter what color the principals are.  Perhaps the real story is the fact that you can't record someone without their knowledge and permission in CA.  That is why no one will take credit for this video.

doesn't this count as cyber bullying the bitches that put her on youtube is making fun of her.. not nice at all.

It's funny how people are saying that it's hurting Asian people and that they are singling out the Asian woman in this video. Yet, in this article the writer says that the women behind the video camera "sound like their black" and I say to that what do black women sound like? Let me know now so the next time I go somewhere I will know how I should and shouldn't sound. My point is an article can't be written saying that a race is being singled out and then single out another race based off of a stereotype of what they should sound like. It's very hypocritical. 

To me I thought it was in bad taste what those 2 girls ( those heifers) did was cruel and wrong I hope that Karma comes back to bite them.

you really don't know what was going on. you weren't there. the girl is a bit unstable here and there's really no justifiable reason for an intelligent student to do something like this.

It seems it has to do with the decibel level, or  in Alexandra Wallace's case, dumb bell level. In the Wallace video, it was an attempt at an audition tape that failed on three levels. 1. Her timing was a atrocious. Japan had just been victimized by a killer tsunami, and Wallace was bitching about people trying to contact relatives in Japan. 2. Wallace was racism went beyond tasteless, indicating that because Asians were frantically raising the decibel level, that they were "ordained" to suffer the consequences of a natural disaster. Had the Viking Admiration Society held their meeting in Tokyo at the same time, would she have complained as bitterly? 3. Her video was just plain lousy. Her timing was atrocious.

In this video, the subject is shot with a back view and side view. She's difficult to see and there's no close up. It has all the nuance of annoying children going through the young woman's sock drawer and giggling over hidden photographs. It is only when the video ends, that we are made aware of the true danger. In an unrelated video, we see, the now familiar figure in the Guy Fawkes mask, informing us, that we need to be occupied. It's really ingenious, in that, the video, itself, is, so nondescript. It would have gone unnoticed had the filmer not rammed it up our noses. For now, it comes off as racist, because, the first subject is Asian. But. is she the last? Is this a warning, that we can all be put up on YouTube at any time? Is this a warning to put on our Guy Fawkes masks or risk public humiliation? Are we being set up to become the sock puppets of Occupy?

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I'd be pissed too if I was studying for a final and 2 chicks in the back are talking about their double date with Tyrone and Jermaine.

i didn't know she was asian until la weekly got thier pc underwear in a bunch.. damn racist la weekly.. you suck again !

It's a library, on a campus, before finals and the articles says kids being told to stop yacking sparked a controversy focusing on race?  It's like having to tell people in movie theaters not talk or answer cell phones and saying a foreign accent/language in the dark is a factor.  Given the tone and word choices both Eric Pfeiffer & Simone Wilson seem to be latent racists or at least asiaphobiast (sic.).  Yup, pure racism is just an article or two away.   The young lady speaks normal American to me, but the story is about her race and not about human politeness, public responsibility or failed parental training.  Oh, and it’s interesting that the other girls off camera never did ever "shut up." 

Who cares if we are categorized by color. People are too sensitive! If someone was telling a story about and due to not knowing my name called me a white man, i could care less. No matter what color you are you should be proud, white, brown black etc. Get off the racism kick already. That horse has been dead for years. Quit kicking it.

Everyone knows what the library is for. By the time you are in college you should be mature enough to handle the responsibilities of your own actions. To state that the Asian girl should have left the library because people are rude everywhere is ridiculous and shows where we are as a culture today in the United States. If she doesn't have the library to study and expect silence and solitude where she can access material, which is what the library is for, then where can she go? The group of children, that haven't grown up yet, that video taped her shouldn't have even been there. They were obviously not utilizing the building so leave and go play video games or something. This is for the girl that could not study due to the immaturity of video takers, Don't worry about these kids. They will never reach the level you will be in all their lives. You are not in the wrong and it wasn't very much you were asking for. You have many people on your side, forget about them. Continue studying and good luck on your finals.

Don`t these people have a name? Why don`t we call each other : hey Asian, hey White, hey Blacks, man or woman?

The Vriginia Tech killer was a White person. Does it make every White person a killer? They use to discriminate black coaches and quarterbacks, but we have a lot of successful Black quarterbacks and head coaches in the NFL now. They use to say that boxing is only for Black, but Manny Pacquiao is an Asian boxing champion.

Culture clash going on here.  Blacks value what behaviors or actions they perceive as cool over almost anything from my observation and association with handful of AA men and women.  Contrastigly, the proverbial uncool asians don't care less, they get down to business and business for them is to excel at school, notion ingrained into their fabric from not only parents but family member and friends that perpetrate and hold this value. 

What happen to America?  Why do we put every one in one basket? Are these writers racist and use race to make their target?

IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANYONE, WHY IS RACE AN ISSUE HERE? 

it's weird how people think this girl's nutty behaviour is justified. if she had a problem, she should have gotten up and walked away. i'm sure the library is big and there are many places to study. at my college - and i went to one far more competitive than csun - nobody would ever do something like this. an intelligent person would have gotten up and walked away, or reported the alleged loud talkers to the library's staff.

also, nobody seems to know what preceded this incident - the chatter that so disturbed the girl - so the assumptions that are being made about the evilness of the videographer are also strange.

imo, the girl was losing her mind. but i suspect she had issues before this incident because i can't imagine something as small as someone talking in the library, don't care what time of year it is, could make someone in their right mind just go off.

she's obviously incredibly stressed and the girls who filmed this are just amused by her inability to get a grip on the situation.

This is just another example of social skills lacking by the Asian community. The Asian culture is often repressed and when Asian Americans express themselves it is often viewed as 

"awkward, irrational and/or humorous" due to their inexperience socializing within society.This woman will not leave the other kids in "the dust" as mentioned by Dannyclarke11 (probably a Asian American), but will probably be repressed as well and pushed to the back like most Asian Americans are. It is not that they are less intelligent or a flawed race... it's just the actions continuously displayed in society and videos such as this that are evidence to why why Asians are hard to take seriously to others outside the Asian race. Now Asian Americans, please do not jump all over this post. By supporting that society thinks your behaviors can be taken irritating (especially when driving..jeeezzz), awkward, hilarious (not in a good way) ect  , may allow understanding and insight to why society overlooks you! Please get it together, i mean breathing? If Asians do not see the problem...open your eyes!

Thank God the Web was not around during my college days.