Imagine the self-entitledness of writing an entire essay about getting fat-shamed in China as a foreigner, as if you have some right to demand that a culture adjust its entire norm structure on an ad hoc basis to not have your fee-fees hurt over your weight.
This is the mindset of the American millennial/Zoomer, and it’s why people give them so much hell.
Via Vice:
When I arrived in China for my senior year abroad, I had many expectations of what my home for the next year would be like. What I did not expect, however, was to become a public art installation, a metaphorical monument to China’s ‘outsiders.’
As a bigger, biracial woman, I was used to being a walking lesson against stereotypes. My existence itself subverts the concept of what a Chinese woman, what a black woman, and what an American and Singaporean “should” be like. Growing up in Singapore—an equatorial borderland of diversity—I was an outsider among my own friends and family. Curly-haired, tall, and more curvaceous than my relatives and classmates, I was often teased and bullied for my differences, and was assigned to a ‘FAT Club’ at school where I danced my little ass off to Gloria Gaynor’s I…
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