"Me love you long time" is phrase uttered by Vietnamese prostitute in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, but 2 Live Crew made it infamous in the song "Me So Horny." Fergie, Nelly Furtado, and Mariah Carey have all used the line or variations of it in their songs, but do they know that many consider it to be a racial and sexual slur? Probably not. MTV talked to some prominent Asian Americans — some of whom have to regularly deal with yells of "Me so horny; me love you long time" as they walk down the street — about the line and what it means to them when they hear it.

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