this year, don’t be afraid to be yourself. grow fangs!!! unfurl your wings!!!! vaporize unsuspecting mortal souls with your eldritch presence!!!!! stand on the rooftop and shriek at the heavens until god himself comes down to tell you to stop!!!!!!!!!!!
I can stomach bro-type boys who actually are quite sweet and loveable beneath their bro exterior significantly more than like, guys who study philosophy and write “poetry” but beneath it all actually have the skewed moral compass and heedless self absorption of your common or garden bro.
What we’re NOT saying:
• Cultural exchange is bad.
• Cultural exchange should be stopped.
• No one should ever experience another culture.
• You can’t enjoy and be interested in another culture.
What we ARE saying:
• You can’t take a core and important piece of the culture and use it as a decoration.
• You can’t disrespect the people of the culture but use their culture as a decoration.
• You can’t pass off their culture as your own, or take credit for anything part of that culture.
• You can’t disrespect the history of the culture by trying to be ‘original’ and changing a key part of it.