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... It was a stereotype that Americans didn't understand the Chinese accent—this could be traced back to the late 1800s and early 1900s, when most Chinese immigrants came from the Canton area.
Those immigrants all spoke Cantonese, which, to Americans, sounded like a variation of "ching,""chong,""ling,""long," and other such sounds. Because of this, they had used that as a nickname for east Asians.
As time passed, that nickname had become the equivalent of an insult and a for ...
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