Alexandra Wallace, a UCLA student, recently uploaded a disgusting video display of racism and xenophobia to YouTube. In her video titled, “Asians in the Library,” Wallace embarks on a long, racist rant about Asians at UCLA, peppered with attacks on Asian cultures.

Wallace, during a rant about Asians using their cell phones in the library, said, “I swear they’re going through their whole families just checking on everybody from the tsunami thing.”

As if that massive hit of insensitivity wasn’t enough, she goes on to excruciatingly imitate the Asians in the library she is referring to by saying, “Ching chong ling long ting tong.”

She doesn’t stop at attacking Asian languages-she also attacks Asian cultures for being centered on the family, saying that Asian families don’t allow children to do anything for themselves and that they should “use American manners.”

The problems with Wallace’s racist tirade are obvious. She mentions in the video that she is a political science major whose “epiphanies” are frequently interrupted by Asians and their culture, which, apparently, directly threatens hers.

It’s a shame that such a brilliant political science major (honestly, who really reaches an epiphany every time they study?) does not understand the basic concept of the United States as a nation of many cultures coming together to form one.

Such an offensive and negative video on YouTube is bound to spawn an onslaught of angry response videos-and it did, to an extent. But the real redemption to this situation is the flood of response videos by Asians that poke fun at Wallace, rather than angrily engage her.

The most famous of these responses is a song by Jimmy Wong titled “The Asians in the Library Song.” Wong, an accomplished Chinese-American musician, wrote the song to express his feelings on Wallace’s video, without falling to her pathetic level, all the while maintaining a humorous tone.

The chorus of the song goes, “Ching chong, it means I love you. Ling long, I really want you. Ting tong, I don’t actually know what that means.”

There are hundreds more videos that take a similar approach. Bart Kwan, an Asian-American and former U.S. Marine, posted a video response in which he tells Wallace she got it wrong.

“You know we can’t pronounce our Ls. The proper way is ‘Ching chong, ring rong,” Kwan said.

Watching Wallace’s video for the first time, my first reaction was anger at her ignorance and insensitivity, but after seeing the positive responses by the people she directly attacks, I realized that there is something to be learned from such a passive response.

Angry responses only engage Wallace and other ignorant people on their level. Positive responses that use humor and sincerity can have a more positive effect.

And in this case, they have. Since the wave of such responses to Wallace, she has released a statement of apology, saying that she would take the racist comments back if she could.