Everyone on social media now claims that they’re in a “very Chinese time” of their lives, but that wasn’t the case a few years ago. A TikTok user points out the hypocrisy in the sudden appropriation of Chinese aesthetics, now that it has become trendy in the West.
Blurrytokki from TikTok recalls her experience of being Chinese less than five years ago. She alleges that she’s been accused of “eating dogs, cats, and bats”—a common stereotype that intends to portray Chinese people as unclean. Chinese people, she claims, are called unsanitary because of their food and cultural practices.
