Simu Liu talks about cultural appropriation over boba tea 🧋

[milotic2]

Wyt people speaking about making an Asian thing better in front of an Asian is very ick.

Simu Liu had very valid points about this brand and their cultural appropriation of bubble tea. And pls, popping boba's been in the market back in like 2017 or something. pic.twitter.com/ajRqdIPQYu
- Gillian Hero (@lilyoftheveil17) October 11, 2024
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Comments

[felixfin]

To repeat the comment above, starting out the pitch saying real boba has questionable ingredients is so gross and that stood out to me so much. Nothing like French-Canadians making rascist remarks (I'm half French-Canadian sadly so I've heard similar shit from distant relatives I rarely see).
Also the fact that the other POC panelist was joking that Simu was asking hard questions, like yea he is, he is watching two yts pitch 'healthy' boba to him. I hate when yts try to 'elevate' an already staple Asian food.

[iznanassi]

french-canada is in its crunchy racism era massively. like to the point where they subsidize francophone int'l students because they know there's no way they'll stay in quebec, just to discourage anglophone out of province students from attending at full int'l student price.

[sarafina126]

This is 100% accurate. We are an embarassment.

[vanilla_09]

Hmmm I would argue that international francophone students 1000% sell their kidneys to stay here. Although your point about anglophone students is correct.

[iznanassi]

i forgot to add **from france lol, not the francophone diaspora. those people are not staying in quebec.

[pseudonygma]

Idk, all the international francophone students I've known absolutely despise the way the Quebecois have butchered French, lol

[azetburcaptain]

I am in Ontario. We have racism problems too.
But Quebec …. is on another level. It’s disheartening because it’s such a beautiful province.

[vainandbitter]

Try to 'elevate' an Asian and try to make a billion dollars off it

[psychoblood]

These people only know the bottom of the barrel bubble teas (the fruit teas that taste more like syrup than tea) and have never tried the legit ones that use high quality tea. It's grating to see them try to get uppity about MaKINg iT BetTER when I really doubt the quality of it to start with (I've tried some pre-packaged bubble tea drinks that come out of Taiwan/China, and I still think fresh bbt beats it easily) (Even when it's like-for-like, eg. Hey Tea's bottled stuff vs buying an actual cup of fresh bbt from Hey Tea).

[azetburcaptain]

Yes exactly!

[kerosene_pill]

"I hate when yts try to 'elevate' an already staple Asian food"

I feel this about them when it comes to Mexican food

[my_moloko]

Do you mean like Emma and her vegan empanadas?