The empty second floor Upstairs Gallery at the Noyes Cultural Center, 927 Noyes St., Evanston On Sept. 5, an art exhibit was ...

Accusations of cultural appropriation aimed at a Canadian brand’s boba tea don’t sit right in Asia, where ‘borrowing’ ...

Clips of the moment have since gone viral, with millions of views, and the moment has sparked an important conversation about cultural appropriation and how we treat people when they call it out.

A quick snap of the camera, and away the picture goes to be plastered on social media. “The phone eats first.”  There’s ...

With the popularization of Asian foods, it is simultaneously important to credit the cultures from which these dishes ...

They were subsequently accused of cultural appropriation. My key takeaway from this is: how something looks is more important than what it really is. It does not matter that Bobba’s partner is ...

He said, “There’s also the issue of cultural appropriation ... None of what we appreciate of the world today, whether it be art, food, language, business or culture, is what it is today ...

In the quest for convenient, healthy drink alternatives, some companies–like the Quebec-based brand Bobba that pitched Dragon’s Den investors–have left the culture of Asian tea making in the ...

“Not only do I feel like this is not happening here, but that I would be uplifting a business that is profiting off of something that feels so dear to my cultural heritage,” he said during ...

A boba tea company apologized after Simu Liu called them out for cultural appropriation on his Canadian reality series Dragons’ Den. After the business partners introduced their bubble tea ...

So why is TikTok in an uproar over bubble tea — and cultural appropriation? The saga kicked off last week, when an episode of “Dragons’ Den” aired Thursday on Canadian network CBC.

Simu continued, “There’s also an issue of cultural appropriation. There’s an issue about taking something that’s very distinctly Asian in its identity and quote unquote making it better ...