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They’re OFFENDED Because A White Girl Did This Dance?

Amala Ekpunobi

Amala Ekpunobi

Education

4.22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

A Swedish-Indonesian dancer, Daisy Oxenstierna, has been accused of cultural appropriation after a video of her performing Legong, a style of Balinese dance, went viral on the Internet. Let’s talk about it.

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0:00.0

A young girl is going viral and getting dragged on the internet.

0:02.7

Her crime you ask, choosing to dance.

0:05.6

The internet is calling it cultural appropriation

0:07.7

and saying that white people steal everyone's culture.

0:10.2

Let's talk about it.

0:11.2

Yeah, you better. Guys, before we get into today's video,

0:15.0

guys before we get into today's video,

0:20.0

big shout out to my patrons on Patreon,

0:22.0

you know we've kept sponsors off this show for quite a while because I've yet to find a product or a company worth sending over to you guys. So thank you for fueling the work that I've been doing here in the meantime. Shout out to each and every one of you.

0:33.4

Now let's talk about a video of a young girl named Daisy

0:35.6

that is going viral on the internet

0:37.2

of her participating in a Balinese dance

0:39.7

known as LeGong.

0:40.9

I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly.

0:42.4

Let's check Daisy out. So a pretty normal looking video if you ask me it appears to be a young girl who is

0:59.0

participating in a culture that I find quite interesting. I've honestly never seen this type of dance before so I thought

1:05.2

maybe this is going viral because she's participating in a culture and she's doing something

1:10.0

interesting and it's an interesting looking dance.

1:12.6

No, of course not.

1:14.4

She's going viral because she is white

1:17.1

and people are saying that this is cultural appropriation.

1:19.6

The original tweet itself actually says,

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