#or else they'll have more things to find wrong with it and demonise (like quick hide all the autonomous prefectures theyve never heard

[rongzhi]

at what point is it actual cultural appropriation when people (speaking of non-asians here) try to make discourse and correct your douyins based on wikipedia and previous media that does not provide information in a lens that has cultural meaning? i'm all for spreading awareness for chinese ethnic minorities and chinese culture, but sometimes i wonder (as a diaspora with han ethnicity that can barely understand chinese and cantonese) what right do people have to correct those with cultural understanding that they don't have? not gatekeeping but i find some reblogs disturbing

None of that would be cultural appropriation, it's just a case of someone being an ignorant loudmouth or whitesplaining or whatever you wanna call it for non-whites too.

And to be clear, in my previous post, I did not think that person I was replying to was making those comments in bad faith. I think they and other people whose tags I've noticed in the past just fail to realise that the videos they are seeing come very intentionally (on my part) from the same source, i.e, douyin via me.

But some people do have a tendency to go off about things that they have a tiny bit of knowledge of because they simply have no concept of how ignorant they sound. Call it the Dunning-Kruger effect of cultural exchange. I usually don't respond to those people, or at least I don't directly respond to the majority of those people. It's just not worth it.