Reddit actor gets angry at successful company.
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First of all he's from China and bubble tea is Taiwanese not Chinese so maybe he should stop culturally appropriating Taiwanese culture and trying to claim a culture that is not his. Also China is the king of cultural appropriation considering how many Chinese knock off products there are.
Second of all if he doesn't like cultural appropriation then he can start by not wearing Western clothes.
Well he did say it's "distinctly Asian". I guess he can claim the entire continent as his identity as long as he's talking down to White people.
“So, are you Chinese or Japanese?”
-Hank Hill
It's a trap. If they had marketed it as such, he'd claim "Orientalism" and demand they replace their executives with "appropriate" people. Saying something is "Asian" has very little meaning.
I argue outside of Taiwan, that it was more popular in the west coast and Hawaii before it ever exploded in popularity in the 2000s in China. Yeah it was around in the mid 90s but most people didn't have the disposable income to enjoy it until China had their economic boom and more people moved from rural areas to work in the city.
Bubble Tea shops recently reached saturation right as their economy is failing. It grew about 250% between 2016 to 2020.
Honestly, it's the younger generation that embrace the drink, hardly something to take cultural ownership of. If anything it's more western, created in Taiwan thanks to American influence. So suck it China.
But what the fuck does he know? He's an actor.
it was actually very popular in SEA during the 90s.
And it's still sorta popular in SG at least. All the queues outside the bubble tea shops during lunch time.
Just no longer so popular that every street has one shop.
Yes, you in sg?
Yes. My family gotta have their weekly 3 cups of bubble tea.
Mine drink way more than 3
Even in Georgia, you can get it on Buford Hwy, the Chinese (Taiwan) shopping center in the 90s too. I like the tea, what southern kid wouldn't like 150 grams of sugar in 20 ounce of milk and tea? But didn't care for the pearls.
Sidebar, 3 meat and rice, crispy skin pork, char siu, and duck for $6 and feast like a king. Damn I loved that place.
No no no. If it's from Taiwan, then it's real China, not Communist Occupied East Asia. So, it's absolutely Chinese.
Most accusations of cultural appropriation are just rent-seeking. You can’t make boba tea unless you’re Asian, so if you want boba tea, you have to import and hire Asians.
Nah. Recipes are online. Easy to learn. No need to remake national demographics or specifically enrich foreigners.
Double stupid coming from a Chinese dude. They don’t respect anyone’s IP.
Logic by leftist retards, it makes more sense when they import rapists and say "at least we get to eat tacos!" as if they are some kind of hidden cuisine.
"Si say pwadway!" - "Doctor" Jill Biden, to a group of breakfast tacos (well, Hispanic people, who she referred to as breakfast tacos)
I'm sorry, is that a suit coat your wearing? A garment that originated in Europe? Did you acknowledge the European heritage of the coat and make sure to only purchase from a vendor that is sufficiently "western" in staff and ownership? Didn't think so.
The concept of cultural appropriation is bullshit, because it only ever goes one way. Most countries are heavily influenced by American and European culture- they have sandwich shops, coffee shops, and French style bakeries all over Korea and Japan for example, but nobody's crying about that.
This guy should shut the fuck up and stick to being a supporting character in Kim's Convenience and making shitty Marvel movies.
Tons of Vietnamese cuisine are straight up French cuisine, and nobody complains about that.
Oh good freakin' grief.. he has no problem appropriating Chinese Culture as a "dragon" for his own personal benefit.
Never mind the fact that his actual culture is CANADIAN.
Im american of asian descent and i avoid any media made in america that is centered around asians.
I get pretty annoyed with liberals btw. When shang li came out, many ask if ive seen it.. like just cause im asian, i should see it. Its like when cartmen asks token if he seen or like black panther lol.
I live outside of Baltimore and when I tell people that, they usually asks if I've seen The Wire? Sometimes people use shortcuts in conversations.
there's nothing especially asian about tapioca pearls in fucking tea.
"Hello. I'm an actor. I pretend for money."
Once again, western absorbed liberals have no idea what culture actually is and instead exclusively focus on the most surface level, vapid markings. These are things like dress, food, dance, music, fashion, etc. These are relatively banal things. Interesting, sure, but hold no real cultural weight.
Meanwhile, when we get into the nitty gritty of culture and dig towards the core, we start to uncover actual cultural identity and value. These are things like familial structures, justice systems, traditions, moral interpretation, etc.
The reality is that leftists are entirely fine with cultural destruction and appropriation, so long as you leave the surface levels alone. It's by far some of the most ignorant and racist things that the left has continually engaged in for many, many decades.
Bubble tea is everywhere, now-a-days. You can get it at a local pizzeria. It's being sold in supermarkets as a drink for the tween demographic.
Just the other day I bought a container of taco seasoning. To my shock, nowhere on the package did it inform me that tacos [likely] originated in Central America! If that seasoning isn't going to inform people, how will anyone ever know?!
But "Bobba" is a stupid name for a product because it just encourages misspelling.
East Asian people's attempts to cash in on the currency of oppression has been hilarious due to their above average outcomes in the west. "Hey, were oppressed, too. We are forced to play doctors and mathematicians on television and kids poked fun at the way our food smelled in elementary school. One white girl even wore a kimono to prom." Someone else pointed it out here, but once you realize every complaint boils down to white people bad it isn't all that surprising. I'm sure Mr. Liu doesn't really mind the fact that hispanic people cook basically every meal he eats out, regardless of "cultural" background of the restaurant.