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My Culture is Not Your Goddamn Prom Dress

When a girl, Keziah Daum, went to her senior year prom wearing a Chinese dress to her prom, she was attacked and bullied via social media. I am 100% certain that if the person wearing the dress was from any Asian descent, this would've never gone viral.

A guy named Jeremy Lam commented on her tweet of her prom with "My culture is NOT your goddamn prom dress." with tens of thousands of retweets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDWVHaPo6iQ

https://twitter.com/daumkeziah/status/988115815068139520

https://twitter.com/jere_bare/status/989981023076208640

This cultural appropriation was handled differently simply because she was a different ethnicity.

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  1. AnonymousJune 27, 2018 at 6:29 PM

    I do think that the Jeremy Lam guy is really sensitive, but this definitely helps your point haha.

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