This morning I was browsing Twitter
And I saw this Tweet here
This guy said, "My culture is NOT your goddamn prom dress."
What is he talking about?
Well here's a girl who wore a Chinese dress to prom.
A beautiful, wholesome, happy day in her life, and she's celebrating the beauty,
The creativity of the Chinese people to create this wonderful, beautiful dress.
Well guess what.
That dress is NOT his goddamn culture.
Pretty stupid point, right? Seems like it's just kinda mean and rude
Not really funny, not really insightful
Not really anything to show any interest in, at all!
Except for it got a hundred and sixty-thousand likes on Twitter!
A hundred and sixty thousand people out there were like, "Yup! How dare she try to have fun in America!
The melting pot of cultures
Don't you know that we're segregating everybody now?"
Apologies to all the wizards out there who I've culturally appropriated by the way.
Please do not turn me into a toad
Although some say I already resemble one.
So this guy sics a hundred and sixty-thousand people to bully this sweet girl, minding her own business, for what?
Wearing a Chinese dress.
First of all, the thing that shocked me the most, how is there so many people ...
That are -- are agreeing with this?
And again, his tweet is not funny, it's not insightful, it's nothing interesting, it's just rude.
and it's vulgar. And it's hateful
She's just a high schooler
going to prom with her friends and you're gonna put her on blast, and a hundred and sixty-thousand people?
Really?
Just a high school girl having fun, you're gonna put on blast for this.
Thats...
pretty twisted dude.
And by the way, how is your idea of culture so shallow
If you're willing to boil down the thousands and thousands of years of Chinese Culture into this one dress
I'm afraid you might be the one disrespecting Chinese culture not her
Buster!
Bro, and you look like a California skater. How are you gonna sit there all Adidas'd out
and slam on her for cultural appropriation, like that doesn't make sense.
If you want to abide by that why don't you just dress like all Chinese did in 19th century?
Here you go.
You need to dress like that at all times dude or you're appropriating my culture!
Western Culture is not your's to ... toy with!
It's sacred to us!
Did you get permissions from the Germans to wear that Adidas hat? Because uhh ...
That might be cultural appropriation to wear that Adidas hat
Sorry to break it to you.
Um I didn't know if you know this about me but I grew up in Ventura, California and surfing is kind of part of my culture and my identity
My culture is NOT your goddamn profile picture!
Sounds pretty stupid doesn't it? Yeah it is stupid
Meanwhile, this guy's sitting on a stoop in America somewhere is getting outrage for a manufacturer in China who's actually making a living selling these dresses to Americans.
Wow I wonder who's more entitled to claim ownership over that culture? This guy chilling in America or the Chinese manufacturers who are actually making it
And I'm not trying to slam dunk on this guy.
I'm just trying to prove a point
That, it's very conveniant to get on a soap box and start screaming about cultural appropriation
Even when you've made a tweet like this only last year,
"I'm eating tamales with chopsticks. This is why America was founded"
I agree dude that is why America was founded, it's Amer-- it's -- it's -- it's the melting pot of the whole world!
So what's the point if you can't tweet that, and if this girl can't wear a beautiful Chinese dress to prom?
What is the point of America then, I ask you.
All of these people are validating his existence and encouraging him, a hundred and sixty-thousand people
But what has he actually done? Except bully a girl ...
... he's never met, who's minding her own business. A sweet innocent girl who means well
But, I get your point and I thought we could play a little game here, okay?
So I wanna go over some garments and we can all decide together if it's cultural appropriation or not.
The T-Shirt started being issued by the U.S. Army around 1900's as an undershirt but started being worn for fashion soon after that.
So, I hate to break it to anybody but if you're not a white American or of Western descent
It is cultural appropriation to wear a T-Shirt
Baseball caps were invented in Brooklyn in 1860 for the greatest American pastime, of all time.
*kiss noise*
Baseball.
Well to appropriate Baseball, the most American pastime, that would be pretty brutal wouldn't it?
How dare anybody who's not American wear a Baseball cap!
Trousers, or shorts, as they're known, started being worn by Americans and Europeans in the 1930s because of their comfort.
And I really hate to say this because they're very comfortable and they look great, I love shorts
But anyone who's not a white American or Western, you gotta take the shorts off.
Wait hold on a second! You're wearing all those things!
You are wearing all those things! How dare you dude!
Obviously everything I said is a little rubbish. It's ridiculous, it sounds ridiculous, because it is ridiculous
In America of all places, we shouldn't celebrate somebody who accuses a sweet girl who's celebrating Chinese culture, of cultural appropriation.
I really -- I don't know what the end goal of this is.
How is it that in today's society in America a hundred and sixty-thousand people can try to
dunk
on this poor sweet highschooler? A child really. A young adult who's trying to celebrate a beautiful wholesome day of her life.
Are we not missing the point of the American experiment?
This beautiful experiment of cultures. Multiculturalism
*tongue smack*
The melting pot.
Are we not missing the point to everybody who liked that Tweet?
Is this really why we're here on Earth? I don't think so.
I really don't.
But. If you need any more proof
That these are sweet, good, kindhearted people
look no further than this photo here:
You see what I see?
*outro music beings playing*
VapeNaysh dawg.
Keep slammin'. Love you guys.
Rock that dress! You look beautiful girl! You go girl!
I've even seen a lot of people saying that the hand motions are racist so I just want to explain that this is the Papa Bless and the VapeNaysh