A new Google app called "Make Me Asian" has created quite a stir, spurring thousands to sign a petition calling for Google to pull the app from its online store.

The app allows users to take a picture with an Android phone and add a Fu Manchu mustache and straw hat and even make the skin of the subject more yellow. The Google Play store also offers "Make Me Irish" and "Make Me Indian" versions of the app.

KTVU showed some people on the street in Berkeley to gauge their reactions. Chanty Crawford of Sacramento said the the app made her laugh.

"It looks really funny," said Crawford. "I think it's funny."

Dylan Toumbs of Oakley was one of several people to say the idea made them a bit uncomfortable.

"I mean it's a little racist, but whatever. It's an app. They have stupid apps," said Toumbs.

Betty Yee is on the California Board of Equalization told KTVU she expected more from Google.

"Promoting racial stereotypes as being a fun thing and an acceptable thing for young people is, I think, not doing a service," said Yee.

Yee, a San Francisco resident, said she doesn't find anything humorous the app.

"Here we essentially have racial stereotypes that are being made fun of and actually being promoted as being enjoyable," said Yee. "And that is so counter to the work many of us have done to fight racial stereotypes over the course of a lifetime.

Yee charged that if the apps targeted other ethnicities, they would undoubtedly elicit a negative response.

"If this happened to any other community -- the Jewish community, the Muslim community -- I can almost say for certain that anti=defamation leagues would be speaking out," said Yee.

An online petition drive is underway on Change.org that has over 7,900 supporters urging Google to drop the offensive apps.