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Australian Influencer Blasted For Tone Deaf Posts During Japan Trip: “The Casual Racism Is Sending Me”

An Australian influencer faced accusations of cultural appropriation after sharing content from her trip to Japan.

Sophia Begg, who boasts 1.4 million followers on TikTok, made a travel faux pas when she posted a series of photos from her first day in Tokyo with audio from a song performed in Mandarin by Chinese rapper SKAI ISYOURGOD.

The photos, accompanied by the track Blueprint Supreme, show the 21-year-old and her friends eating ramen and matcha ice cream and posing next to a vending machine.

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