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My name is Julie Chow, and I'm Chinese American.

Can you be my China doll?
Can you try that Southern drawl?
Yellow skin looked good on white
Squinty-eyes are oh-so-nice

Talk to me in Ching Chang tongue
Grow your hair jet black and long
Cheong sam baby, lipstick rouge
Bring on your true Asian groove

"Why don't Asians ever look good in magazine spreads?"
"Aiyeuu...ni zen me chuan na me lou, huh?"

Yellow girl you speak too White
Yellow girl your shirt's too tight
Sit back down and hold your tongue
This is how the West was won...

You hold both your chopsticks wrong
You murder your mother tongue
Weren't you raised overseas?
Are you sure you're full Chinese?

Wo zai mei guo shang da xue - I go to college in America
Wo jia ren zhu zai xin jia po - My family lives in Singapore
Wo cong xiao zai guo wai zhang da - I grew up overseas

Too Asian to be American (Too American to be Asian)
Too expatriate to be native (Too international to be...)
Californian - I won't try to be (I never tried)
I was born in Red Bank, New Jersey (Monmouth, actually)
Slap me with your foreign fees (Out-of-state)
'Cause my home is overseas

"Ni na-er lai de?"
"All the Chinese I knew were docile and subservient"
"Ni gen ben mei kou yin ma!"
"Don't they cane people in Singapore? Can you chew gum?"
"Ni shi Beijing ren ma?"
"You look like Mao...are you communist?"
"Ni gen ben mei kou yin ma!"
"Can you chew gum?"
"Are you communist?"

Can you be my China doll? - Yellow girl you speak too White
Can you try that Southern drawl? - Yellow girl your shirt's too tight
Yellow skin looked good on white - Sit back down and hold your tongue
Squinty-eyes are oh-so-nice - This is how the West was won...

Talk to me in Ching Chang tongue - You hold both your chopsticks wrong
Grow your hair jet black and long - You murder your mother tongue
Cheong sam baby, lipstick rouge - Weren't you raised overseas?
Bring on your true Asian groove - Are you sure you're full Chinese?

Wo jiao Zhou Ai Lin. Wo shi ge mei ji hua ren.