Kept Memories

Just ASK the girl to move her hair off your desk or to have the desk moved away a little.

“BUT IT’LL GROW BACK” Not always! My mother had long gorgeous hair and her grandmother cut it all off and it NEVER grew back the same length again! She was DEVASTATED. 

This girl is probably FURIOUS and she has every right to be!

Here is the Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_occasioning_actual_bodily_harm#Cutting_hair 

Also, the mentality of someone who sees no problem literally just reaching out and doing this to someone is sociopathic. Like, I would NEVER even think to reach out and cut off a piece of someone’s clothing even, much less their hair.

Why? Because someone thought it would be funny to cut my hair without my permission. Because I had spent YEARS growing my hair out after a terrible haircut (that I brought on myself). And because no one thought it was wrong that they did this.

The teacher came over at the sight of me crying and made everyone stop laughing. She asked me what was wrong and I pushed the fake hair toward her (still not knowing it was fake), put my head in my hands and kept crying. I expected her to tell me to just take the joke and it’s nothing to cry about. Instead she held the hair up and asked, “Who did this?” there were a few snickers, “This is not funny, who did this?” I hadn’t seen who did it because they were behind me so I couldn’t tell her either.

You can think it’s gross and disgusting and refuse to eat it (I personally don’t like it at all) but that doesn’t give you the right to tell a culture what parts of their cuisine they get to sell in America because it’s not “pretty” or “appealing” to you. If you don’t like it, no one is asking you to participate in or partake in it. Like balut is one of the cultural staples of Filipino cuisine and it was adopted into our diet out of necessity due to how expensive meats and other proteins are. 

And it’s so frustrating that the petition has met it’s signature goal and will most likely win. It’ll just keep perpetuating the stereotype that Southeast Asian food is “disgusting” and “unappealing” to Americans because it doesn’t fit the pristine presentations that they’ve become accustomed to through East Asian cuisine. Don’t get me wrong, I love East Asian food to death, but I find a lot of the food I grew up with and love is continually met with resistance because it’s a completely different preparation and presentation style that still bars it from registering underneath the ironically broad category of “Asian food.” And it’s so tough to share my culture with others when they are hesitant to even take a bite.

With this dish, the embryo probably is hardly aware of what is happening. But this dish is seen as more inhumane simply because Americans don’t think it -looks- as nice and they aren’t used to it.