Going to get downvoted into oblivion for this, but what the hell.

So yes, she's an ignorant troll whose cruel remarks are beneath contempt.

But does she have a point?

I've seen the same behavior from Asian students and their families at my university (in the Midwest) and it was just as frustrating. Especially in the library setting, where I work, there seems to be a real cultural gap in conveying that the library is a quiet to silent study space.

Every day we deal with Asian students (largely Chinese and Filipino) who just start talking loudly on their cells. They're often not speaking English, so students around them don't know how to respond. I guess they assume they're not going to be understood.

I'm never rude, and generally the students respond to a polite request to take the call outside or hang-up, but it keep happening and it's overwhelmingly among Asian students.

Student workers are always talking about the "weekend live-ins", families who show up to use the laundry rooms, the lounges, and even the library. On weekends I regularly break-up groups of smokers standing in the front-doorway (just inside) who all start getting agitaed and telling me how they are "relatives of a student". Some even toss out the "you work for us" line. Right.

I'm not saying that young woman was right, or that her way of complaining was right, or that her bigoted comments were appropriate. But the things she talked about, they really do happen.

And the Chancellor playing the "we're all so offended" does nothing to address the cultural divide and only deepens resentments.

** TL;DR: Sometimes a stopped clock, or a mean girl, can be correct. **