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The Trend of White Women Co-Opting East Asian Culture
Steffi Salch, writer and culture reporter for BuzzFeed: White women have been co-opting East Asian culture. She says it fits well in with this attempt of white girl soft power. "It is another very specific image of Asian nests that's being exported into the coolness of white norms"
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