What’s more, is that proper chopstick etiquette when putting them aside also involves never crossing them in an “X” shape, or standing them up vertically into rice. Chopsticks, as it goes without saying, are not hair accessories they are utensils with which we eat food. The way people are interpreting the #ChunLiChallenge with signifiers like double buns and chopsticks as hair accessories is yet another instance of people co-opting another culture with impunity. During Coachella, people wore vaguely Asian-inspired parasols and kimonos readily and in the open. Just last month, Bella Hadid seemed to casually appropriate Japanese culture with an alter ego named Rebekka Harajuku. At the heart of the issue is the subject of cultural appropriation, which seems to happen regularly enough regarding various Asian cultures.
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