@beylaniii@Galacticweirdo1@mollielemonzz@sliceofmiku It can probably still gonna be treated like the next viral oriental ingredient to consumerism culture lol. The brand is everything. The origin never matters.
@cvilleslim@MelaninisOP_@BlackAndNative1 At least do more research if you’re gonna talk about “Asian” ancestry, whatever you think that grouping means. Austronesians and Aetas are ancestrally related to each other that they are both as Asian as Mao Zedong is with equal migratory ties to Africa.
@Camuscheststrap @inknpetals I’m telling you its because people have never experienced the kind of poverty and systems supporting poverty to the point that they genuinely think South Asians legit choose to live like that with the same kinda rhetoric as “homeless go home”
@karolthepope Like yeah, its a problem that’s been severely unaddressed like many things, but people really aren’t highlighting the right things abt all this
@karolthepope Like there were basically no Filipinos acting like this during the start of ube’s globalization. The whole thing was because of news coming out last year of systematically disadvantaged farmers facing problems from said globalization, and then the perception turned into this