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00:00:59.940 People are like, we'll talk about your laugh, and I'm like, you realize I laugh like that too?

00:01:02.900 And they're like, I've never heard you do that. And I was like, well, see, I code switched.

00:01:08.000 You know you have your white person laugh.

00:01:09.940 Yeah, I have my...

00:01:11.120 Yeah, it's like a chuckle.

00:01:13.300 Yeah.

00:01:13.580 Hey, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the Comment Section Show, starring

00:01:21.800 me, your favorite. Everyone loves me. Also, happy holidays. We have yet another Christmas

00:01:26.760 bird on my sweater. Moving on to the most important part of each episode. Today, I would

00:01:31.340 love you all to welcome my very special, wonderful Samoan guest, Stanson Afua.

00:01:37.340 Stanson, whoo! My second Polynesian. I'm honored. I'm so happy to have you. I'm so happy

00:01:44.900 to be here. It's been a long time coming. You know, sometimes... No, actually. But you

00:01:49.260 know, sometimes people are like, girl, you need to have... This was before I had Crayon

00:01:52.840 on my show. But they're like, you need to have Samoan people on your show. I'm like,

00:01:56.100 I'm trying. You know how hard it is? We're all over the place. There's not many of us.

00:02:00.760 There's not a lot of us. And you're right. We're all scattered. Like...

00:02:03.200 Yeah.

00:02:03.940 Any other Samoan mutual?

00:02:05.280 Stanson's from Alaska.

00:02:05.740 I came down from Alaska.

00:02:07.400 Yeah.

00:02:08.080 Where it is freezing cold right now. So thank you so much for having me again.

00:02:11.480 And I'm not jealous of you. Not even a little bit.

00:02:13.800 But you're right. We're all so scattered. I feel like all the mutuals that I have...

00:02:17.060 Yeah.

00:02:17.680 In Utah, Hawaii...

00:02:19.180 Yeah.

00:02:19.500 Some of them are on the East Coast.

00:02:20.960 Yeah, same.

00:02:21.800 It's like really hard to like collab.

00:02:23.360 Well, there's... Yeah, that. And then there's also like so few of us in the social media space

00:02:28.840 that have like been able to build platforms because there's like not many of us at all.

00:02:33.240 Yeah.

00:02:33.560 Let alone like performing online like we do. We're both online jokers, technically.

00:02:40.740 You know, I never thought of that.

00:02:42.040 Yeah, we're hired clowns. That's how I consider myself. I paint my face. I go and dance for

00:02:46.540 people and then they laugh and then they're like, all right, give her a ring.

00:02:50.320 I'm on it. You know, I can rock with that.

00:02:55.280 Yeah, Stanton and I found each other pretty early on. I would say you and I were in mutuals

00:02:59.120 a long time before I like really, really blew up.

00:03:02.740 Yeah, it was... I think it was... Was it at the beginning of this year or...

00:03:07.420 Yeah, like beginning of this year, end of last. It was like right when it was like about

00:03:11.240 to blow up or explode or whatever. And it's funny because you've been fighting for me,

00:03:16.040 girl. You make videos for me all the time and I'm so happy about it. I don't have many

00:03:21.140 men fighting for me, you know what I mean?

00:03:22.980 Well, people are like, oh, you're such a fan. And I was like, you bet your ass I am.

00:03:27.460 Like, is that supposed to offend me? Like, yes, I am.

00:03:30.240 Well, also like, I feel like it's important, especially to hear from other Samoan creators

00:03:35.440 like that we're like fighting for each other. Because we were talking T before this and we were

00:03:40.700 talking about how like we can handle our own problems internally, but nobody else is allowed

00:03:45.000 to come in here and talk about us. I'll tell you that much.

00:03:48.200 It's insiders versus outsiders.

00:03:49.720 That's what I'm saying. And there's so few of us. That's not fair.

00:03:53.600 I know. Like, I want to... I try to ride for every Samoan creator that I can.

00:03:57.700 There are some that I'm like...

00:03:59.040 That's worthy of being ridden for.

00:04:01.180 Yes.

00:04:01.440 Let's clarify. There are some bad ones. I know I've dragged a few myself.

00:04:05.900 And so have I.

00:04:06.720 Yes.

00:04:09.780 What did you do before TikTok?

00:04:11.420 Figuring out my life.

00:04:15.160 Really?

00:04:16.120 Yeah. I mean, like...

00:04:17.380 Wait, how old are you?

00:04:18.400 I turned 28 on the 20th.

00:04:20.540 So next week I turned 28.

00:04:21.980 Okay, so you're only a year older than me. I'm 27. I just turned 27.

00:04:24.820 Yeah. We're so old. In TikTok years...

00:04:27.740 We're ancient.

00:04:28.820 They called us old millennials. I find that disrespectful.

00:04:32.640 I get it that there's like a stark contrast between Gen Z and millennials, but it's not like...

00:04:38.640 I will... Is there? Because... You know what I mean? We're out here. You know what I mean?

00:04:43.040 Well, there is a big difference, but I will say this. Some millennials are like in their mid-30s.

00:04:47.960 Those are the ones they're comparing us to.

00:04:50.600 There's a big difference between us and them.

00:04:52.340 Yeah. Have you seen those videos about like the millennial pause? Have you heard those?

00:04:56.300 Yes.

00:04:56.860 My God. I saw Teffy. She talked about it in a video recently, but I've seen a lot of other people talk about it.

00:05:03.420 I don't do that. Do you do that?

00:05:05.120 I don't think I do.

00:05:06.240 Me either.

00:05:06.680 I think I'm pretty self-aware. I don't think I do it.

00:05:08.680 The way I'm constantly trying to differentiate myself, I'm like, don't lump me with them.

00:05:12.920 I'm different, I swear.

00:05:14.160 I've actually made fun of older dudes. Like when I've dragged old dudes, I once made a video that recently got taken down, which is...

00:05:20.940 It's so old. It's like a year old, but it was literally...

00:05:23.320 I was saying the most embarrassing part of his video was that he was like holding it up and recording and he was going...

00:05:29.300 Anyways, like that like pause. Like you don't know when the video started and you don't know how to go back and edit it, so you just post it.

00:05:35.800 You know what I mean?

00:05:36.880 It's awkward for everybody.

00:05:38.200 It is.

00:05:38.600 It's not enjoyable.

00:05:40.180 Anyways, the story, the point of my rant is basically that we're not old millennials, but we are both someone and I love that for us.

00:05:48.520 I couldn't agree more.

00:05:49.460 You do a lot of videos on cultural appropriation, which is what we're going to be talking about today. That's our topic for today.

00:05:56.840 But what are your thoughts on cultural appropriation for specifically for Polynesian culture?

00:06:02.540 Oh, what a topic.

00:06:03.940 I know.

00:06:04.680 It's just there's a lot to unpack there.

00:06:06.560 I think oftentimes when it comes to cultural appropriation for all of Pacific Islanders, not just Samoans, I think people brush it off, especially here in the States, because like from a percentage standpoint, we make up such a small part of the population.

00:06:22.580 But it doesn't make it any less important.

00:06:26.080 No, literally.

00:06:26.620 Like so many of us are affected by it.

00:06:28.720 Yeah.

00:06:29.140 And I can't stand to see people just brush it off, which is kind of how my platform took office.

00:06:34.560 And I really just started talking about those things and people started listening.

00:06:39.100 Yeah.

00:06:39.300 And they sometimes they get real mad.

00:06:41.360 I mean, obviously, like especially like racist white people are obviously going to get mad when you tell them like, hey, that's not nice.

00:06:48.360 And they're like, you're oppressing me.

00:06:50.180 So I think that's like so true in the sense that there's so little knowledge about Pacific Islander culture in general that they like they genuinely think it's just all silly goofs all the time.

00:07:03.680 Like, who cares?

00:07:04.920 Like Moana was a blessing and a curse.

00:07:07.880 Seriously.

00:07:10.080 Same thing with Aquaman.

00:07:12.380 Like for me, that was hell on earth when that movie dropped.

00:07:16.220 You know, I do not wish to ever go back to that time.

00:07:18.960 With my boyfriend, especially because I feel like I don't know.

00:07:23.460 There's like also a big fetish thing, which I talked about with Crit, too, when he was on my show, especially of Samoan men being like big and like strong and whatever weirdo.

00:07:35.120 They love to do shit like that.

00:07:36.760 Like so when they when I guess when you give them an inch, they take a mile.

00:07:40.480 No, you're absolutely right.

00:07:41.540 And like, yeah, it's really gross seeing how fetishized we are as people.

00:07:46.940 Like, like for instance, like with like Tahitian dancing, you know, it's a lot of the it's a lot of the hips.

00:07:52.580 It's a lot of the booty.

00:07:53.300 But I never I don't think I ever looked at it growing up and was like, that's hot.

00:07:57.800 You know, like, oh, look at that technique.

00:07:59.840 Like, good for you, girl.

00:08:00.960 And like other people are just over here saying the most disgusting things.

00:08:03.640 I love a good farahu.

00:08:05.240 I'll tell you that much.

00:08:06.160 Big fan.

00:08:06.700 Yeah, but it's not sexual in its very nature, just like hula.

00:08:10.340 Like hula has been over sexualized and colonized severely to the point where they do the like coconut bra and the little grass skirt.

00:08:18.440 And like none of those things are culturally accurate or even like practical.

00:08:23.280 It's just I mean, it's the whole thing is just so shitty.

00:08:26.780 The plastic flower lays are so tacky.

00:08:29.160 I know it never looks good either.

00:08:31.080 Like if you're going to appropriate, at least put some energy behind it, some money.

00:08:35.640 Like pay that few extra dollars for the real flowers and Google how to make your own necklace, I guess.

00:08:41.960 I know like a good candy lay.

00:08:44.240 They love that, too.

00:08:45.480 Have you ever obviously.

00:08:47.040 But like when people graduate from high school, college, they get laid.

00:08:51.320 So they get all the candy lays and they like cover your whole head and they eat that shit up.

00:08:56.440 White people love watching that.

00:08:58.120 They love it.

00:08:58.740 They love taking pictures of you and they're not even in your family.

00:09:01.580 They're like, oh, my God.

00:09:02.760 You know, the kids on the side like, Mom, I'm right here.

00:09:06.780 They like they got their one purple lay.

00:09:09.160 That's all.

00:09:09.980 It's OK.

00:09:10.600 But I like I made a video about that.

00:09:12.860 I think sometime last year just telling them like, hey, like just so you know, this is where it comes from.

00:09:16.820 Yeah.

00:09:17.080 Like there are plenty of cultures that do like, you know, flower lays and candy lays.

00:09:20.140 But like in the U.S., that is our influence as Pacific Islanders.

00:09:24.020 Yeah.

00:09:24.900 And there was like pushback against that.

00:09:27.280 Like really?

00:09:28.380 It's an American thing.

00:09:29.740 This and that.

00:09:30.280 And I was like, how did you get to that point?

00:09:33.160 Like, what do you mean?

00:09:34.340 American culture is colonization.

00:09:35.760 It is.

00:09:36.080 And that's it.

00:09:37.580 You know, you guys get mashed potatoes and not even because that's Irish.

00:09:41.020 That's Irish.

00:09:41.980 And they came here, too.

00:09:42.820 So, you know what I mean?

00:09:43.580 Like, what do you guys get?

00:09:45.900 White supremacy.

00:09:46.740 That's what you get.

00:09:47.280 That's your that's that's your culture.

00:09:49.440 You go ahead and you keep that.

00:09:50.820 You know, it's so funny.

00:09:52.680 My boyfriend is his name is Peely, right?

00:09:57.080 Everyone calls him Billy, like for the most part.

00:09:59.240 But he's trying to go by Peely now because like that's his government name, his cultural name.

00:10:03.700 And I feel like in the years we've been together, especially we talk a lot about like reclaiming stuff.

00:10:09.120 So like, for example, like you have a last name that's very similar to mine and the spelling and everything.

00:10:13.900 But I love when people ask me, how do you say your last name?

00:10:17.240 Because I hate when they purposely mispronounce it.

00:10:20.080 It's a microaggression, first of all, just like the white men have coined like Buffalo for me as my last name.

00:10:25.960 And I'm like, wrong indigenous culture, babe.

00:10:29.160 Wrong one, babe.

00:10:30.200 Pick the wrong one.

00:10:31.100 It's like I really don't think that they know like it's racist.

00:10:35.160 And no matter how many times we say it, though, you've said it multiple times.

00:10:38.600 I've even said it.

00:10:40.200 It's racist.

00:10:41.120 And it's like we put so much respect on our last name.

00:10:44.400 Absolutely.

00:10:44.760 Like anytime I'm like, y'all can come for me.

00:10:46.720 You can come for Stanson, do what you got to do.

00:10:48.380 But the moment you say a four.

00:10:50.200 Yeah, same.

00:10:51.640 They hold a lot of power.

00:10:53.180 Our names in our cultures, I think in a lot of indigenous culture.

00:10:56.760 And my boyfriend's like going by Peeley now.

00:10:59.800 Like for the most part, like people in our families, he doesn't care if they call him Billy because it's still technically his name.

00:11:04.360 It's a nickname.

00:11:05.480 But he's introducing himself as Peeley.

00:11:07.080 So he posted like his first TikTok the other day.

00:11:09.340 It's a little thirst trappy.

00:11:10.820 You saw it?

00:11:11.320 It came up on my for you page.

00:11:13.020 I love that for him.

00:11:15.120 Look at him.

00:11:15.520 And he made the caption like this is a Drew Stan account just to make it very clear who he is and where he lands.

00:11:22.920 I'm all you could very easily end up on the wrong side.

00:11:25.000 And you get a bunch of the dudes who hate me being like, you look so good, bro.

00:11:28.180 You look so good.

00:11:29.500 But some dude like was like, I hate your caption.

00:11:32.340 Something like that.

00:11:32.800 His name was Cade.

00:11:34.560 I'm going to let the audience guess what race he was.

00:11:37.260 Let that settle in.

00:11:38.980 What race he was.

00:11:39.760 But anyways, he said anyone with the name Cade doesn't have an opinion here.

00:11:43.920 That's what he said.

00:11:44.740 And this guy said this is coming.

00:11:46.780 You said this is an uncommon name as if Peeley isn't.

00:11:49.560 He started making fun of his name.

00:11:51.460 And I was like, someone said that's racist.

00:11:54.160 And he was like, well, you're talking about it like it's uncommon.

00:11:57.260 My name's uncommon, too.

00:11:58.300 I said he didn't say it's uncommon.

00:12:00.000 He said it sucks.

00:12:01.040 That's what he said.

00:12:01.560 Your name is stupid.

00:12:02.960 That's what he said.

00:12:04.300 This bitch really tried to say that his name holds more cultural value than my boyfriend's name, which is Peeley.

00:12:10.180 Did he elaborate?

00:12:12.140 No, that's all he said.

00:12:13.820 Just got to take his word for it, I guess.

00:12:16.500 Someone literally commented and they said, I looked it up and the origin says something that's round or barrel-like.

00:12:22.240 Nice culture.

00:12:25.020 The girls will eat you up.

00:12:26.620 They will eat you up.

00:12:28.220 Sometimes I tell people, don't let people find out that you don't like me.

00:12:32.000 Don't let people find out.

00:12:33.200 The girls are going to eat you.

00:12:34.560 If you hate me, keep it up here.

00:12:36.820 Keep it up here.

00:12:37.780 Keep it offline.

00:12:38.720 Especially if your name is Kate.

00:12:41.780 Especially if your name means round or rotund.

00:12:44.960 Like, what a stupid fucking name.

00:12:46.880 I couldn't believe that he was like, mine holds way more cultural value.

00:12:50.500 I'm like, what culture?

00:12:53.080 White.

00:12:53.900 Was it like a blank profile?

00:12:55.220 No, it was someone with like, it was a white dude.

00:12:58.600 And then someone literally wrote, Peeley is like cultural.

00:13:02.900 Your name means your mom puts raisins in her potato salad.

00:13:05.880 And I was like, that's your culture.

00:13:10.260 He wanted attention.

00:13:11.640 He got it.

00:13:12.300 And you got it.

00:13:12.960 And I hope you're happy with it.

00:13:14.700 Honestly, I hope you are.

00:13:15.960 You do a lot of clap backs too, though.

00:13:18.060 Just like me.

00:13:19.120 I do.

00:13:19.940 A lot of them get taken down.

00:13:21.480 Same.

00:13:24.120 Same, same, same.

00:13:25.540 But you know, if they stay up for a few days, gain some momentum.

00:13:28.980 Yeah.

00:13:29.620 Make sure I see some shares on there.

00:13:31.520 We're good.

00:13:32.000 What do you think is like the biggest thing you get hate for?

00:13:34.820 Everybody gets hate.

00:13:36.140 My hate's like, out of this world, crazy.

00:13:38.400 But like, what would you say you mostly get pushback from?

00:13:42.820 Is it when you're talking about cultural appropriation?

00:13:44.900 Is it when you're clapping back?

00:13:46.120 Yeah, I would say it's when I'm talking about cultural appropriation or when I'm dressing

00:13:49.940 other Samoans on issues.

00:13:51.720 Some of them will try and make, Samoans and non-Samoans will try to make a dig at the fact

00:13:56.360 that I'm queer.

00:13:57.700 Like, I remember there was this lady who was like 45, the Samoan lady, who was like, you're

00:14:03.800 just mad because you're not a true Fafafingi Samoa, which that's like a transgender woman

00:14:09.000 in our culture.

00:14:10.240 She was like, you're upset at this and that.

00:14:11.960 And I was like, well, I don't know if that's supposed to be a dig or what.

00:14:14.240 But I was like, but I've had a lot of like little things like that.

00:14:18.100 Yeah.

00:14:18.660 I was like, you're ass.

00:14:20.600 Like, do better.

00:14:22.140 Like, go to hell.

00:14:24.140 Go to hell, bitch.

00:14:26.780 That's so insane.

00:14:28.600 That doesn't make any sense.

00:14:29.960 That's not even an insult.

00:14:31.620 You know what I mean?

00:14:32.660 You're just mad because you're not.

00:14:34.240 It's like, you're just mad because the sky's not red.

00:14:37.080 What?

00:14:38.740 I wouldn't say I am, but okay.

00:14:40.940 It's okay.

00:14:41.480 She was one of those people who just like get off when people respond.

00:14:46.580 And when I realized that, I was like, oh, okay.

00:14:48.400 We'll just leave it at that.

00:14:49.320 That's why I leave pick-me's alone a lot of times.

00:14:51.880 If I address them, it'll be like on Twitter or like in comments or something.

00:14:56.040 But it's just never worth it to me because I'm not, first of all, I'm not here to tear

00:15:00.920 down the girls.

00:15:01.740 I'm only here to tear down men exclusively.

00:15:04.500 And that's how it will always be.

00:15:05.940 But also I just feel like, I just feel like they're relentless in that sense.

00:15:11.180 Like they'll never stop.

00:15:12.160 And it's just like, it's a never ending cycle.

00:15:13.980 If you, if you open up that door with like pick-me's or someone who wants attention.

00:15:18.180 So like with certain people, there are certain men I leave alone too because purely because

00:15:23.280 I know for a fact they're waiting for me so that they can do something and they can,

00:15:28.080 you know what I mean?

00:15:28.380 And I always say like, if your biggest videos, are you talking shit about me?

00:15:32.160 That means you need me to do well.

00:15:34.960 Sounds like you're the useless bitch in this relationship, huh?

00:15:37.600 No, real shit though.

00:15:38.900 Like they need you.

00:15:40.060 Yeah.

00:15:40.200 They need, they, they need to put my name in a thumbnail or something in order for them

00:15:43.360 to get a lot of views.

00:15:44.500 You're welcome.

00:15:47.820 That makes sense to me though.

00:15:49.180 My guess would have been cultural appropriation.

00:15:50.800 They really don't like when you talk about that.

00:15:52.600 They don't.

00:15:53.100 It's like, I dragged this Australian dude pretty recently and he was talking about, he was

00:15:59.680 saying like, is it even okay to be white anymore?

00:16:02.460 And I was like, shut the f*** up.

00:16:05.000 Is that a serious question?

00:16:06.760 Are you being for real?

00:16:08.480 Look me in the eyes and be for real for one second.

00:16:11.040 Is it okay to be the one thing that's always been okay?

00:16:13.740 Yeah.

00:16:14.780 Yeah.

00:16:15.540 Yeah.

00:16:16.040 And I was like, you know how it's, I was like, you know what's crazy is it's actually

00:16:19.240 so okay because he was Australian.

00:16:21.200 And so I was like, it's so okay to be white there that when like your ancestors severely

00:16:28.080 colonized that continent so much so that when people think Australian man, they think

00:16:33.520 of a white dude.

00:16:34.340 They don't think of Aboriginal people who are the original inhabitants of that land.

00:16:39.840 A hundred percent.

00:16:40.320 And your people really took over.

00:16:42.740 That's called colonization, babe.

00:16:44.540 That's like, yeah, it's okay.

00:16:46.760 Your ancestors made sure it was okay.

00:16:49.160 That whole trying to play the victim card thing.

00:16:50.860 Yeah.

00:16:51.700 It's like your ancestors made sure it was okay to be white, especially there.

00:16:57.060 You're good.

00:16:57.880 What a mess.

00:16:58.800 Don't worry about it.

00:16:59.940 They really hate when you talk about stuff like that.

00:17:02.120 They do.

00:17:02.780 Especially appropriation.

00:17:04.240 Yeah.

00:17:04.420 Especially appropriation.

00:17:05.220 Especially like, you know, our tattooing practices.

00:17:09.420 That's the big one.

00:17:10.680 Don't get me started.

00:17:12.260 My clip for Crits show that I posted on TikTok was literally talking about, um, and like,

00:17:19.000 uh, tribal, tribal tattoos.

00:17:21.280 And I was like saying like, just because you're someone adjacent doesn't make it okay.

00:17:27.600 You got a foot in the world doesn't mean you're us.

00:17:30.160 Like.

00:17:30.360 I'm just like, why do you need more?

00:17:32.540 You're always trying to take more.

00:17:34.040 Be grateful you are surrounded with Samoans.

00:17:36.180 Is that not enough?

00:17:37.040 Yeah.

00:17:37.260 Yeah.

00:17:37.360 Like, you're welcome.

00:17:39.380 Yeah.

00:17:39.660 You're welcome.

00:17:41.080 I think it's so, oh, oh, the tribal tattoo thing makes me so irate.

00:17:46.660 You know, it's so funny.

00:17:47.540 I had someone, I talked to someone recently, um, and he was telling me, you made it cool

00:17:53.000 to be a Polynesian girl.

00:17:55.780 And I was like, what are you talking about?

00:17:57.480 And he was basically in essence saying that there are some people who like, you know, those

00:18:01.840 people, they cling on to that, like one 12th native Hawaiian.

00:18:05.660 And they cling on to that bitch.

00:18:08.700 Like their name's been Jenna their whole life.

00:18:10.880 And all of a sudden it's Kehlani.

00:18:12.620 It's Leilani.

00:18:13.780 You know what I mean?

00:18:14.460 Lehua.

00:18:15.660 It's, oh my God.

00:18:16.800 And then like all of a sudden, and he was saying, because I think, um, there's more representation.

00:18:21.020 Like they have someone like you, they have me, they have like, who, who else?

00:18:25.020 The Rock.

00:18:26.380 Just the three of us.

00:18:28.020 And Jason Muella.

00:18:29.480 Just us four.

00:18:30.680 And he was basically like, now they really, really want to be closer to their culture,

00:18:37.540 which I guess is a good thing.

00:18:38.860 I think it's always a good thing.

00:18:39.980 But I also think too, that like, there is a line to be drawn.

00:18:43.700 Like, especially if you're, if you feel distanced a little bit from your culture, I think there's

00:18:48.040 a way to bridge that gap without overstepping.

00:18:50.800 Because if you are white, like white, like white presenting and everything, then I feel like

00:18:55.420 there's like a little bit of a disconnect there for people.

00:18:58.220 I agree.

00:18:59.160 I think you have a really valid point.

00:19:01.080 Especially when you're trying to bridge that gap.

00:19:03.220 Or that gap.

00:19:04.140 Like I encourage people to do it.

00:19:06.060 But you don't just get to wake up one day and be like, I am 100% this.

00:19:11.120 I know everything.

00:19:11.780 Like you don't.

00:19:12.780 Like a lot of our cultures in the Pacific are thousands of years old.

00:19:16.140 Yeah.

00:19:16.600 There's so many different nuances to it, especially with the identity just here in the States

00:19:21.020 or in the diaspora or back home.

00:19:23.280 Yeah.

00:19:23.660 There's a lot to learn there.

00:19:24.800 Yeah, absolutely.

00:19:25.600 I think too, what I think is kind of like hat on a hat with people like that is that

00:19:31.680 they're always the ones kind of giving the pass to do things that you probably shouldn't.

00:19:36.660 So like getting tribal when like telling your white partner, it's okay to get tribal.

00:19:41.600 Like, no, you know what I mean?

00:19:45.160 When I posted that clip, lots of people were literally saying like, why aren't you saying

00:19:49.220 that to their Samoan husband or their Samoan boyfriend that says it's okay for them to do that?

00:19:55.540 I'm like, I'm talking to all of you.

00:19:57.380 All of you, knock it off.

00:19:58.980 That's what I'm saying.

00:19:59.880 All of you, stop.

00:20:00.920 That's what I'm saying.

00:20:01.740 If you have to ask like, is this okay for me to get?

00:20:04.280 The answer is no.

00:20:06.020 You know what I mean?

00:20:06.660 Like if you're not Samoan, don't get Samoan tattoos.

00:20:09.120 You could literally get anything else in the world.

00:20:12.300 Literally.

00:20:12.800 Anything.

00:20:13.900 You could tattoo an egg on your leg if you really wanted to.

00:20:16.900 You could write the word poop on your leg if you really wanted to.

00:20:20.440 You could get anything.

00:20:22.280 I just saw this video of this white guy who got hot dog tattooed on his forehead.

00:20:27.720 And I was like, see that?

00:20:28.920 That's white as shit.

00:20:29.920 Get that tattooed.

00:20:31.240 Go ahead and take that to the bank, bitch.

00:20:33.240 You can have that one.

00:20:35.100 I also, I met this girl at a campfire like two summers ago and super sweet white girl.

00:20:39.640 She was telling me, she's like, yeah, like my ex is white.

00:20:41.100 He got a Samoan tribal style Tyrannosaurus rex tattooed on his back.

00:20:48.200 Tyrannosaurus rex?

00:20:49.420 He said, because I played football with Samoans.

00:20:51.640 Like I felt like, if you played football anywhere on the western half of this country, you played football with Samoans.

00:20:56.020 Yeah, where did dinosaurs come in and act?

00:20:58.800 Why are they there?

00:21:00.480 I was like, good luck with that for the rest of your life.

00:21:03.160 Yeah, you're like, you went to bed with that.

00:21:04.880 That's on you, girl.

00:21:06.940 It's a mess.

00:21:07.880 That's a big one.

00:21:09.980 They're like, oh, my friends are someone.

00:21:12.380 Okay.

00:21:13.820 Congrats.

00:21:15.160 Yeah, that's like, you're like, if you play football with anywhere here in America, yeah, chances are you met at least one.

00:21:20.900 Yeah.

00:21:21.260 At least one someone.

00:21:23.160 And I was like, dude, that makes my ass it.

00:21:27.720 A tribal dinosaur?

00:21:29.320 What dinosaur?

00:21:29.860 It was a T-Rex.

00:21:31.660 And I was just like, you know, I'll give you a point or two for creativity.

00:21:35.840 I guess.

00:21:36.780 I'd love to see it.

00:21:38.160 I don't want to see it.

00:21:40.960 I'd be better off not.

00:21:42.760 Oh, my God.

00:21:43.220 I wonder if a Samoan person gave that to him.

00:21:45.140 Oh, God.

00:21:45.980 Or if it was like free handed by someone that's not Samoan.

00:21:48.800 I'm curious to know.

00:21:50.520 You know, my tattoo artist is also like, he's tattooed my whole family.

00:21:55.720 And he's obviously Samoan, but he's my dad's cousin.

00:21:58.940 And so when he's like tattooed us, he's talked about how like he's had non-Samoan people come to him.

00:22:04.800 Because he can do anything, but he obviously specializes in tribal.

00:22:09.400 So for specifically Samoan tribal.

00:22:11.580 So he can do other types of tribal too.

00:22:13.540 Like he's done Filipino tribal.

00:22:15.160 He's done like Guamanian tribal.

00:22:17.480 He's like, I can do all kinds of tribal, but sometimes I'll have non-Samoan people come and they only want Samoan tribal.

00:22:23.120 And he's like, I have to ask them a lot of questions.

00:22:24.600 Why do you want to get this?

00:22:25.860 Like, what's the meaning behind it?

00:22:27.380 Like, even though you're not someone, why do you feel connected to this?

00:22:30.020 Like, he almost like makes, he almost makes them talk themselves out of it sometimes, which I was like, that's cool.

00:22:35.900 I mean, I think that's cool.

00:22:37.660 I don't want to get in front of your bag, but I think that's cool.

00:22:39.580 No, I think that's really awesome that he does that.

00:22:41.540 Because, you know, what are reasonings that people say?

00:22:43.280 Like, oh, I was in the military and stationed in Hawaii.

00:22:45.740 Oh, my God.

00:22:46.220 Or Hawaii in Hawaii.

00:22:47.740 I know, I went to college in Hawaii.

00:22:50.900 So the amount of Marines I saw with like, it's always in a circle.

00:22:54.740 It's always in a, you know, Jacob Black's tattoo and Twilight.

00:23:00.240 You know, like, speak about someone who's not indigenous.

00:23:03.300 Oh, my gosh.

00:23:04.180 Girl, let's talk about that, bitch.

00:23:05.860 But like, he has like this like circle and it's like, it's like something they all get when they turn into the wolves.

00:23:11.320 Why is it always like that for all Marines stationed in, at Pearl Harbor?

00:23:16.580 I don't know.

00:23:17.360 Maybe the tattoo artist there made like an agreement.

00:23:20.360 It's just a stamp at this point.

00:23:22.440 It's a stencil because he's like, I'm so sick of these hoes coming to me.

00:23:25.760 Oh, my God.

00:23:26.680 That's so funny.

00:23:28.020 Okay, let's get into this topic since we're on.

00:23:30.040 We're very much on topic today.

00:23:31.420 I'm so proud of us.

00:23:32.480 Look at us.

00:23:32.880 Okay, we're going to talk about culture appropriation specifically of Pacific Island culture today.

00:23:36.740 So for those of you who don't know, what we do here on the comment section is we bring videos that are applicable to our topic.

00:23:41.320 We bring them here and then we dissect them, rip them apart, laugh, giggle, all the tea.

00:23:46.040 So this first video that I have, I just like to give little descriptions of them.

00:23:51.180 Basically, in this video, a woman is doing a double take and pretending to clean her glasses.

00:23:56.520 And when she puts them back on with the caption, when I see that someone who's not poly got a poly tribal tattoo.

00:24:03.140 And immediately funny.

00:24:06.360 Hilarious.

00:24:07.120 I'm with you.

00:24:07.920 I probably would have given that a little like if I had seen it myself.

00:24:10.560 So the comments on this, this first one says, girl, they be like, then stop using your phone in cars and houses.

00:24:16.900 That's white culture.

00:24:18.460 This is bitch.

00:24:19.400 None of that shit is culturally safe.

00:24:24.500 But also like, how do you know all those things were created by white people?

00:24:27.800 They were.

00:24:29.620 Hello.

00:24:30.320 Argument shot in the face, bitch.

00:24:31.960 Immediately.

00:24:33.100 Yeah.

00:24:33.340 Like when it's the same thing with hair, like when they appropriate black culture and they do box braids or something that's not.

00:24:40.920 First of all, not for their hair type at all, but then also not culturally significant to them.

00:24:46.020 And they're like, well, then you need to stop straightening your hair.

00:24:49.140 I'm all.

00:24:49.320 Do you guys know how genetics work?

00:24:50.780 Yeah.

00:24:51.280 Like even a little bit.

00:24:52.340 Like I know you all went to biology to some degree because you're in your 30s.

00:24:56.420 So you had to have done some sort of schooling at some point.

00:24:59.580 Like what a stupid thing to say.

00:25:01.520 I just, they must have skipped class.

00:25:03.160 Like I don't.

00:25:04.200 It's so funny to me because I'm like, honey, look at a tag on anything we buy in the U.S.

00:25:08.880 Yeah.

00:25:09.500 Made in another country.

00:25:11.420 Except for what?

00:25:12.160 Like the stuffed animals in the claw machine.

00:25:13.760 Maybe those.

00:25:14.280 And what are those?

00:25:17.020 Bad quality.

00:25:17.560 Bad quality.

00:25:18.320 There you go.

00:25:18.800 There you go.

00:25:19.640 Well, and then I really don't like seeing, I'll go on record.

00:25:24.580 I've said it before.

00:25:25.300 I don't like seeing non-Polynesian people with Polynesian tattoos.

00:25:28.460 I just think it's, first of all, it's cultural appropriation, which is therefore racist.

00:25:32.200 But then at the same time, it's like, get your own shit.

00:25:35.660 Don't you have everything else?

00:25:37.760 You know what I mean?

00:25:38.740 Don't you have literally everything else?

00:25:40.340 It's kind of in the same vein, but not really as like how lots of, there have been lots

00:25:44.640 of black creators who have talked about like, stop using A-A-V-E for obvious reasons.

00:25:48.300 But also like, they're saying, you have so many great white sayings.

00:25:52.360 My sister and I were just talking about those.

00:25:53.720 What's your favorite white saying?

00:25:55.900 When they're like fed up.

00:25:57.920 They say, this is one of mine.

00:25:59.440 That's rich.

00:26:02.960 That one hits so hard.

00:26:05.380 I was thinking like old white people like, dang nabbit.

00:26:10.340 I love a good like, a white saying.

00:26:15.520 I say this one with my boyfriend all the time.

00:26:17.020 We always laugh about it.

00:26:17.780 But like, when you get to the restaurant, right?

00:26:20.360 Like, let's say it's really crowded.

00:26:21.360 You're going to go eat at like Chili's.

00:26:23.660 What's white?

00:26:24.480 Chili's, Applebee's.

00:26:25.640 You go in the parking lot.

00:26:26.880 And then right when you're pulling in, someone pulls out of a front row.

00:26:29.540 And then they say, it's like they knew we were coming.

00:26:31.940 You go in the restaurant.

00:26:37.500 It's like, no one's really in there.

00:26:39.540 Then you put your name in.

00:26:40.720 And then a bunch of people coming behind you.

00:26:42.340 And they're like, man, we came at the perfect time.

00:26:44.200 We beat the line.

00:26:47.060 Those are white.

00:26:47.860 You can have those.

00:26:49.500 Frolic.

00:26:49.940 Run free with those.

00:26:51.000 Those are so great.

00:26:52.800 I literally, one time, I got, well, this lady that I didn't know.

00:26:58.060 She was like yelling at me.

00:26:59.620 That's another story.

00:27:00.720 But she was like a houseless person.

00:27:02.400 But that's neither here nor there.

00:27:04.240 But I was living in Hawaii at the time.

00:27:05.780 And she was literally screaming at me.

00:27:07.540 And I was trying to ignore her.

00:27:08.820 And this guy was like, he was just like, shut the fuck up.

00:27:12.080 Whatever.

00:27:12.460 This white guy.

00:27:13.000 This older white dude.

00:27:13.980 And then she was like, fuck you.

00:27:15.760 Right.

00:27:16.000 Yelling back at him.

00:27:16.560 And then he goes, in your dreams, sister.

00:27:22.520 That's such a white thing to say.

00:27:25.140 But that delivery was hard.

00:27:26.300 Yeah.

00:27:26.760 In your dreams, sister.

00:27:29.280 And when he said that, I said, damn, he kind of ate you up with that, girl.

00:27:32.140 You might want to take that L.

00:27:33.440 I'm like, you better get him back.

00:27:37.020 Me, personally, I wouldn't take that.

00:27:38.500 I wouldn't take that.

00:27:42.160 It's in the same vein.

00:27:43.300 I'm like, you guys have so many things.

00:27:45.340 Raisins and potato salad.

00:27:46.420 You have so many things.

00:27:47.680 So many things.

00:27:48.500 Well, you know what's another super white thing?

00:27:50.200 What?

00:27:50.620 Cranberry.

00:27:51.540 Cranberry?

00:27:52.040 At Thanksgiving.

00:27:53.540 Thanksgiving dinner.

00:27:54.100 The shit that comes out of the can.

00:27:55.700 You're like, but.

00:27:56.880 Bitch, I've never seen that in my life.

00:27:59.580 Ever.

00:28:00.040 I've never seen it in real life.

00:28:01.420 The first Thanksgiving I spent with my boyfriend's family.

00:28:04.220 Because his mom is white.

00:28:05.620 First thing.

00:28:06.400 That's.

00:28:06.880 There's two of those on the table.

00:28:08.620 And I said.

00:28:09.940 What the fuck is that?

00:28:11.880 And he was like, that's the best part of the meal.

00:28:14.140 And I'm all.

00:28:14.880 Huh?

00:28:15.560 I.

00:28:16.340 I.

00:28:16.840 I.

00:28:16.860 I.

00:28:16.880 I.

00:28:16.920 I.

00:28:17.420 I.

00:28:17.480 I.

00:28:17.500 I.

00:28:17.520 I.

00:28:17.540 I.

00:28:17.560 I.

00:28:17.580 I.

00:28:17.600 I.

00:28:17.640 I.

00:28:17.680 I.

00:28:17.700 I.

00:28:17.720 I.

00:28:17.740 I.

00:28:17.760 I.

00:28:17.780 I.

00:28:17.800 I.

00:28:17.820 I.

00:28:24.100 It's so white.

00:28:25.720 Sometimes you're like, white people shit.

00:28:27.400 In a good way.

00:28:28.560 And some people you're like, that's white people shit.

00:28:30.380 In a bad way.

00:28:31.780 It's okay.

00:28:32.600 There's nothing.

00:28:33.160 There's nothing offensive about that.

00:28:34.720 It's just.

00:28:35.420 Matter of fact.

00:28:36.080 It is what it is.

00:28:36.600 Take it up with your ancestors.

00:28:37.800 I don't know why you do.

00:28:38.580 I don't know why y'all people do shit like that.

00:28:40.600 Okay.

00:28:40.880 This next comment says.

00:28:42.160 If I'm pan and it looks straight.

00:28:44.320 I don't really care what it means.

00:28:46.120 For the tattoo.

00:28:47.300 Yeah.

00:28:48.680 Go to hell.

00:28:49.420 Yeah.

00:28:50.780 Well, no shit you don't care.

00:28:52.200 Because it's not yours.

00:28:53.160 I was like.

00:28:53.380 That's the problem.

00:28:54.360 Is you don't care.

00:28:55.860 That's literally.

00:28:56.680 You don't care.

00:28:57.680 It's the same thing.

00:28:58.900 As when people get like Chinese characters tattooed on them.

00:29:02.440 Why?

00:29:03.460 When you're not Chinese.

00:29:04.460 And a lot of times.

00:29:05.440 Or like Japanese characters.

00:29:07.400 Kanji or whatever.

00:29:08.200 A lot of times.

00:29:08.700 It doesn't even say what they think it says.

00:29:11.080 So it's extra embarrassing.

00:29:13.160 What's the point?

00:29:14.340 Didn't Ariana Grande get like a.

00:29:15.940 Oh my god.

00:29:16.340 A tattoo on her finger.

00:29:17.680 It's a tiny barbecue.

00:29:19.220 Ugh.

00:29:20.520 And they ate her up for it.

00:29:21.880 As they should.

00:29:22.860 Like listen.

00:29:23.820 I like Ariana Grande.

00:29:25.160 Like the music is fire.

00:29:26.620 But like.

00:29:27.480 Why would you do that?

00:29:29.120 And there's a great example.

00:29:30.600 It's you know.

00:29:31.560 Stay in your lane.

00:29:32.580 Yeah.

00:29:33.200 Stay in your lane.

00:29:33.820 You know.

00:29:34.240 You can never go wrong with staying in your lane.

00:29:37.140 No one's ever going to penalize you for staying in your lane.

00:29:39.380 You know what I mean?

00:29:39.760 It's just anchor tattoo or.

00:29:42.060 Yeah.

00:29:42.420 Like a heart that says mom on it.

00:29:45.020 I dig it.

00:29:45.840 I love it.

00:29:46.360 That's cute.

00:29:47.060 Why?

00:29:47.620 Well you know.

00:29:48.320 They also like to get like little things tattooed on them.

00:29:50.720 Like little cats.

00:29:52.180 Or little frogs.

00:29:53.300 Or mushrooms.

00:29:54.140 Or something like that.

00:29:54.780 That's cute.

00:29:55.640 That's cute.

00:29:56.840 Keep that.

00:29:57.900 Go ahead and keep that.

00:29:59.180 I won't ask you for it.

00:30:00.320 Yeah.

00:30:00.560 I'm not going to ask you for it.

00:30:01.700 Don't come ask me for mine.

00:30:03.140 You know.

00:30:04.160 I think even too like.

00:30:06.280 Even like mine.

00:30:07.300 Like sometimes I'll show like.

00:30:09.000 When you see my tattoo in my.

00:30:12.000 Videos or whatever.

00:30:13.340 People will say like.

00:30:14.900 Oh is that henna?

00:30:16.340 And I'm like.

00:30:17.060 No.

00:30:17.560 And it doesn't even look like henna.

00:30:18.940 Not at all.

00:30:19.900 But that's what I'm saying.

00:30:20.860 Like.

00:30:21.400 It doesn't look anything alike.

00:30:22.800 But it's just something you're unfamiliar with.

00:30:24.640 So I tell them.

00:30:25.640 No.

00:30:25.820 It's not henna.

00:30:26.680 And they're like.

00:30:27.080 Oh.

00:30:27.360 Like one time a dude literally.

00:30:28.840 Like you could see my tattoo in my.

00:30:30.460 In like a glam pic or something.

00:30:32.040 And he was like.

00:30:32.940 Um.

00:30:33.380 This stupid bitch has.

00:30:34.760 The map to treasure island on her hand.

00:30:37.020 Some shit like that.

00:30:38.360 And I was like.

00:30:38.860 This is Malu.

00:30:39.760 Which is for chiefly women.

00:30:41.320 In Samoa.

00:30:42.500 And I said.

00:30:42.940 But racism is always funny.

00:30:44.620 I'm so glad you put this.

00:30:45.920 Oh piece of shit.

00:30:46.900 Yeah.

00:30:47.200 F*** himself.

00:30:49.260 Like.

00:30:49.920 I'd love to say something funny.

00:30:51.300 But go f*** yourself.

00:30:53.560 No.

00:30:54.020 Literally.

00:30:54.540 Also too.

00:30:55.640 I got it on my.

00:30:56.440 I just really wanted tribal on my hand.

00:30:58.440 I think.

00:30:58.680 So you could see it all the time.

00:31:00.060 But I got it on my left hand specifically.

00:31:02.160 Because some people were like.

00:31:02.800 What about when you get married?

00:31:04.820 What about it?

00:31:05.300 I'm marrying a Samoan man.

00:31:06.980 Guess what?

00:31:07.560 His left hand's tattooed too bitch.

00:31:09.540 So I figure.

00:31:10.400 In my wedding photos.

00:31:11.420 It'll look really pretty.

00:31:12.280 Because we're both Samoan anyway.

00:31:13.480 So I'm like.

00:31:14.320 Period.

00:31:14.940 Okay.

00:31:15.360 Come through wedding photos.

00:31:16.360 Look at me planning.

00:31:18.780 And he did that too.

00:31:19.840 So.

00:31:20.280 Tea.

00:31:20.720 No.

00:31:20.920 I love it.

00:31:21.720 I also.

00:31:22.220 I love it when people get it.

00:31:23.400 And places you can see it.

00:31:25.180 Like visible areas.

00:31:26.240 I think it's really important for it to be seen.

00:31:27.680 That's what I think too.

00:31:28.740 And that's why I was like.

00:31:30.820 Super committed to getting it on my hand.

00:31:32.680 As well as him.

00:31:33.640 Because he.

00:31:34.520 My boyfriend has like the whole sleeve or whatever.

00:31:36.760 But it comes down to here.

00:31:37.480 But it's all Samoan tribal.

00:31:39.040 Done by a Samoan artist.

00:31:40.540 Which I think is a really cool thing too.

00:31:42.600 And that's why I'm like.

00:31:43.340 If you are not Samoan.

00:31:45.760 Don't get one.

00:31:46.980 They're like.

00:31:47.480 What if I.

00:31:48.200 What would you say to.

00:31:49.140 No.

00:31:50.220 Every time.

00:31:51.080 Every time they ask me.

00:31:52.240 No.

00:31:53.580 Close the door there.

00:31:54.440 Yeah.

00:31:54.600 It's like.

00:31:55.500 And that's a full sentence.

00:31:56.720 And you don't need a reason why.

00:31:57.980 Just don't.

00:31:58.660 Just don't do it.

00:32:00.100 This next comment says.

00:32:01.880 What if I'm.

00:32:04.140 What if I'm black.

00:32:05.300 And I've been around them my whole life.

00:32:06.980 And know the meaning.

00:32:08.880 No.

00:32:10.680 No.

00:32:11.040 It goes back to what we were saying.

00:32:12.740 Like.

00:32:12.900 Yeah.

00:32:13.340 I'm so happy you got to be around Samoans your whole life.

00:32:16.200 That's a blessing in itself.

00:32:17.580 Yeah.

00:32:18.380 Don't take more.

00:32:19.320 Leave it at that.

00:32:20.760 What more do you want?

00:32:21.720 What more do you want?

00:32:22.340 You're welcome.

00:32:22.860 That's what you're saying.

00:32:23.240 You want more than that?

00:32:25.140 How could you get any better than the best?

00:32:27.300 There you go.

00:32:28.340 I tell people who say that kind of shit.

00:32:29.880 Like.

00:32:30.000 I'm like.

00:32:30.660 Have you tried like.

00:32:31.800 Learn the language.

00:32:32.880 Learn how to cook some of our cuisines.

00:32:34.720 Yeah.

00:32:35.180 Take up.

00:32:35.720 Siva Samoa.

00:32:36.420 Samoan dancing.

00:32:37.260 Yeah.

00:32:38.520 Do those things.

00:32:39.280 There's so many other ways to experience a culture that are open practices like that.

00:32:43.140 Yeah.

00:32:43.280 Like.

00:32:43.940 Have at it bud.

00:32:45.160 No.

00:32:45.560 Literally.

00:32:45.820 You know.

00:32:46.360 It's.

00:32:46.920 What was kind of cool though.

00:32:48.520 On the flip side of when I posted my clip with Crit about like tattoos and stuff.

00:32:53.880 I had like some.

00:32:55.700 Some.

00:32:56.300 Like moms.

00:32:57.460 They commented and said like basically that their.

00:33:00.240 Their.

00:33:01.500 Child's.

00:33:02.100 Dad is Samoan.

00:33:02.980 But they're not.

00:33:03.780 And.

00:33:04.480 Their dad's no longer in their life.

00:33:05.600 So they said like.

00:33:06.480 How do I connect my child to like.

00:33:09.380 Samoan culture.

00:33:10.040 Even though I'm kind of cut off from his family.

00:33:11.740 Like we don't talk anymore.

00:33:13.220 And I think those are great questions to ask.

00:33:15.120 Like a lot of times.

00:33:16.460 So.

00:33:16.720 I.

00:33:17.120 I just like.

00:33:18.240 Advise them to seek community.

00:33:20.000 Like.

00:33:20.340 Like you said.

00:33:20.760 Siva Samoa.

00:33:21.240 There are many Polynesian dance groups that you could like put your baby in to kind of

00:33:25.700 maybe interact with other parents that are Samoa and other parents that are Pacific

00:33:29.840 Island or whatever they may be.

00:33:31.320 That way you can expose your child to culture without taking up the mantle.

00:33:36.280 You know what I mean.

00:33:36.740 Like it doesn't have to be you who teaches them from your own lived experience.

00:33:41.020 Because if you're not someone and you don't know what it feels like to be someone.

00:33:44.180 So I always think that's really cool when they're open to like criticism in that sense

00:33:49.980 or not I guess not criticism but they're open to like learning and being put in the right

00:33:53.460 push in the right direction.

00:33:54.960 So I would say like seek out someone creators like Stanson for example or Crit even who talk

00:34:00.880 a lot about culture and you know what I mean.

00:34:03.020 That way you can learn without being the poster child for it.

00:34:06.020 Yeah.

00:34:06.300 That's what I've said.

00:34:07.280 I mean it can be like a very vulnerable position to be in as a mother.

00:34:10.720 Yeah.

00:34:10.900 Like wanting to connect your child to their culture that's not yours.

00:34:14.160 Yeah.

00:34:14.360 Exactly.

00:34:14.700 And I get those questions too and I'm like I'm like thank you so much because this child

00:34:18.560 deserves to be connected to their culture.

00:34:20.920 Yeah.

00:34:21.220 Sometimes I'll say take them to church.

00:34:22.620 Samoan Church.

00:34:23.360 That's a great one.

00:34:24.360 Just because community.

00:34:25.460 I was like even if you're not you know a believer or whatever.

00:34:28.460 Yeah.

00:34:28.840 The community and being around that.

00:34:30.700 Yeah and you'll meet other people and they can mingle and kind of like learn and you can

00:34:34.420 learn too.

00:34:34.980 I think that's a great thing.

00:34:35.820 I think it's I think it's really great when they're open to learning.

00:34:38.080 But that's why this is very different where you're just like around them a lot and you

00:34:44.040 vibe and you like them.

00:34:45.760 I think that's a great thing.

00:34:46.960 Who doesn't love someone people.

00:34:48.700 Right.

00:34:48.980 They're so much fun.

00:34:50.400 But no.

00:34:53.620 But no.

00:34:55.520 And that's it.

00:34:56.200 Yeah.

00:34:56.540 And that's simply that.

00:34:57.820 Like we don't need to discuss it any further.

00:35:00.120 It's the same thing where it's like you shouldn't when someone tells you it makes them uncomfortable

00:35:04.520 or it's inappropriate to do your question shouldn't be like well I want to do it though.

00:35:11.160 Like your rebuttal shouldn't be like but I want it.

00:35:14.240 Okay.

00:35:14.940 Like and what and it's crazy like the sheer volume of people who ask questions like that.

00:35:19.440 Yeah.

00:35:19.800 I get those comments all the time and I'm my response is always like I would like you

00:35:24.180 to write a 10 page paper first on all the reasons some ones don't don't want you to

00:35:28.720 get a tattoo.

00:35:29.480 Yeah.

00:35:29.980 And maybe get that through your head first.

00:35:31.440 Yeah.

00:35:31.640 Because they're always looking for like this confirmation bias or whatever.

00:35:34.660 Or a loophole.

00:35:35.120 Yeah.

00:35:35.340 Like a loophole.

00:35:36.220 Yeah.

00:35:36.440 Of like well this person said.

00:35:37.940 Yeah.

00:35:38.380 That I couldn't.

00:35:38.860 And I was like I don't give a ****.

00:35:42.400 Then why'd you ask me?

00:35:43.440 Yeah.

00:35:43.800 Like what was the point of asking?

00:35:45.220 Well it's like why do you do you really want to know why you shouldn't or are you just trying

00:35:49.540 to like make yourself feel better because you're already planning on doing it.

00:35:52.540 Like if you've made up your mind I'm not going to change it but I'm also not going

00:35:56.040 to support it.

00:35:57.120 I'm not going to endorse you for it.

00:35:58.480 I'm going to be like well he said he's going to do it regardless so I'm okay.

00:36:01.640 I'm okay with it girl.

00:36:03.060 Well it's like then they try to act like you're just going to be like losing sleep

00:36:05.960 at night if they go through it.

00:36:07.380 I was like.

00:36:07.700 Yeah.

00:36:08.100 Exactly.

00:36:08.700 Exactly.

00:36:09.840 No.

00:36:10.320 I'm going to sleep just fine.

00:36:11.540 Yeah.

00:36:11.740 But you asked for my opinion and I gave it.

00:36:13.500 Yeah.

00:36:13.940 That's exactly.

00:36:14.860 They're like oh well what are you going to do?

00:36:17.100 Nothing.

00:36:18.180 I'm not going to do anything about it literally at all because I don't care about you and

00:36:21.600 I don't know you.

00:36:22.420 And I know any Samoan that you run into throughout your life is going to you're going to be questioned

00:36:25.860 for the rest of your life honey.

00:36:27.300 Yeah.

00:36:27.560 The rest of your life.

00:36:28.180 No literally and also like no when they said I've been around them my whole life and I

00:36:33.300 know the meaning.

00:36:34.780 That's a lie.

00:36:35.400 A lot of times I'll let you in on a little trade secret.

00:36:38.820 There is no meaning.

00:36:39.920 It's just tribal.

00:36:41.140 It just looks nice.

00:36:42.200 Like that's a that's a T and that's not for everyone.

00:36:47.340 I'm saying most of the time especially in modern times it doesn't really mean anything.

00:36:53.020 They'll tell you a whole story though.

00:36:54.620 Sometimes if you ask Samoan people Samoan people love to joke.

00:36:58.360 One thing about us we love to prank.

00:37:00.260 We love to joke.

00:37:01.720 We love to prank.

00:37:02.420 So they'll convince you of this long story.

00:37:05.300 They'll tell you the plot of Moana that just changed the names and they're like that's

00:37:08.960 me.

00:37:09.980 Elaborate.

00:37:10.620 That's what this means.

00:37:12.100 And then you guys eat it up.

00:37:13.920 You know why?

00:37:14.400 Because you don't know.

00:37:15.120 You don't know.

00:37:15.660 You don't know anything about it that therefore you're not allowed to get it signed me and

00:37:21.540 Stanton.

00:37:21.720 And Stanton.

00:37:23.560 Co-signed by us.

00:37:24.920 That's a bill that both of us wrote together.

00:37:27.300 I think to like this is off topic but not really about Samoan culture.

00:37:33.200 A big part of it is how much we love to laugh and joke around.

00:37:36.540 Right.

00:37:37.100 And my laugh is obviously I say laugh and I was like you mean cackle.

00:37:42.320 Whatever bitch.

00:37:43.300 It pays the bill.

00:37:44.240 Mine pays the bills.

00:37:45.040 Does yours?

00:37:45.660 I didn't think so.

00:37:46.820 But that's besides the point.

00:37:48.520 I am not.

00:37:49.240 That laugh is not exclusive to me.

00:37:51.160 Oh my God.

00:37:51.620 I've said that so many times.

00:37:52.900 I'm like my laugh is very Samoan.

00:37:55.240 That's arguably the most Samoan part about me besides my facial features is literally

00:37:59.660 my laugh.

00:38:00.260 We all laugh the same.

00:38:01.220 Me too.

00:38:01.600 It's the what?

00:38:02.080 The hyena laugh.

00:38:02.720 Yeah.

00:38:02.920 It's literally a cackle.

00:38:04.200 It's so loud and piercing.

00:38:06.100 My whole family laughs like that.

00:38:07.640 I agree.

00:38:08.260 Like people are like we'll talk about your laugh and I'm like you realize like I laugh like

00:38:10.920 that too.

00:38:11.280 And they're like I've never heard you do that.

00:38:12.480 And I was like well see I code switch.

00:38:13.880 You know you have your white person laugh.

00:38:18.320 Yeah.

00:38:18.580 I have my.

00:38:19.460 Yeah.

00:38:20.420 It's like a chuckle.

00:38:21.760 Yeah.

00:38:23.080 That's like how normal people laugh.

00:38:24.920 I've done that.

00:38:25.520 Yeah.

00:38:25.900 When you're like.

00:38:27.620 Oh my God.

00:38:29.740 That's a white person laugh.

00:38:31.020 Yeah.

00:38:31.300 It is.

00:38:31.560 I do that all the time.

00:38:32.380 I did that when I worked nine to five.

00:38:33.800 When you're on the phone you got to sound like yeah exactly.

00:38:36.820 Hilarious.

00:38:37.220 Yeah.

00:38:38.360 God you're so funny.

00:38:39.900 You're crazy girl.

00:38:41.400 That's such a.

00:38:42.760 My laugh is so Samwin.

00:38:44.560 That's why sometimes I'll get tagged in videos of other Samwin people joking around or laughing

00:38:50.920 like doing silly things and someone's laughing and they're like that sounds like Drew.

00:38:55.260 And it's a man.

00:38:57.040 But you can see the person laughing.

00:38:58.920 That's clearly not me.

00:39:00.780 But you know.

00:39:01.440 A lot of people like I'll let out my laugh sometimes on my content and they'll be like

00:39:05.080 you sound just like Drew and I'm like love it's an Islander thing.

00:39:08.020 Yeah.

00:39:08.060 That's what I've said that I've been tagged in other Samwin people's things too when they're

00:39:13.160 like oh are you copying Drew's laugh?

00:39:15.100 I'm like no.

00:39:16.680 That laugh is not exclusive to me is what I will say.

00:39:20.160 We're loud and boisterous when we laugh.

00:39:23.660 That's why I'm like convinced someone should do a study on this but I'm convinced that's why

00:39:28.400 we're all so funny because we make fun of each other so severely all the time and we

00:39:33.860 laugh like that.

00:39:34.780 Can you imagine getting laughed like that?

00:39:37.100 You know what I'm saying?

00:39:38.080 When I was younger I could never take a joke because my family and my mom would make jokes

00:39:44.340 about me all the time.

00:39:45.300 They're silly jokes.

00:39:46.180 They're not like pointed or mean but they would make silly jokes about me and they all

00:39:51.700 would laugh in unison and it would upset me.

00:39:54.360 It would enrage me.

00:39:56.120 And my mom was like you gotta learn to take a joke.

00:39:57.580 Or she would say nobody joke with Drew anymore.

00:40:00.160 She can't take a joke so nobody joke with Drew anymore.

00:40:03.340 And then I'd get FOMO.

00:40:04.920 Can't have that.

00:40:06.000 Baby steps.

00:40:06.760 Yeah baby steps.

00:40:07.860 Re-enter the pool.

00:40:08.660 Yeah like because sometimes sometimes I see the rock laugh and I'm like I'm trying to

00:40:12.760 hear that real laugh.

00:40:13.960 Right?

00:40:14.580 Yeah.

00:40:15.440 Yeah.

00:40:18.760 That Maui laugh.

00:40:20.340 I'm trying to hear the real thing.

00:40:22.260 I bet you it's high pitched.

00:40:23.840 It has to be.

00:40:24.500 And piercing just like mine and Stanson's.

00:40:26.580 I agree.

00:40:27.160 Like there's no way.

00:40:28.160 Yeah that's what I'm saying.

00:40:29.420 There's no way.

00:40:30.120 All that Samoan blood.

00:40:31.120 There's no way man.

00:40:33.220 Something.

00:40:33.680 We'll get to the bottom of this.

00:40:34.320 We'll get it.

00:40:34.840 You know what?

00:40:35.180 When we all kiki together.

00:40:36.320 Yeah.

00:40:36.480 We'll hear it.

00:40:37.400 We'll report back.

00:40:40.060 If I hear the real Samoan laugh I'll tell you guys.

00:40:42.660 I'll let you guys know.

00:40:43.620 All right Dwayne.

00:40:44.420 Yeah.

00:40:45.160 Dwayne prove me wrong.

00:40:46.160 We'll see you soon.

00:40:46.680 Hey if I'm wrong come on the show and show me.

00:40:48.940 That's what I'm saying.

00:40:49.740 Consider that a challenge buddy.

00:40:52.560 Okay let's move on to this next video.

00:40:54.280 So this next video is a woman is responding to an Instagram post of another woman.

00:41:00.180 She who is not Pacific Islander dressing in a grass skirt, a lei, a floral headpiece, etc. for Halloween and made a video posing sexually with the caption put me on your dashboard.

00:41:14.160 Like a hula girl.

00:41:17.160 It says the woman making the video talks about how minimizing and sexualizing her culture is an example of cultural appropriation.

00:41:24.320 T.

00:41:24.820 It's ridiculous.

00:41:26.620 Well first off I saw that video.

00:41:28.640 Did you?

00:41:29.260 Yeah and my first reaction was like how about this honey.

00:41:31.540 You put on that costume.

00:41:32.840 Instead of me putting you on the dashboard I'll put you on the roof of the car and then I'll floor it down the freeway.

00:41:38.000 Let's start there.

00:41:38.720 How about that?

00:41:39.460 And then go with God at that point.

00:41:41.140 You know what I mean?

00:41:41.800 Whatever happens happens.

00:41:42.900 It's out of my control.

00:41:43.940 It's just like and they always call it a costume.

00:41:46.780 Like it's just a costume.

00:41:47.660 It's just a costume.

00:41:48.640 It's not.

00:41:49.600 No it's really not.

00:41:50.700 It's not a costume.

00:41:51.560 Well it's the same it's in the same vein as like when people wear Native American like headpieces or anything like that as a costume.

00:42:01.020 That's why my culture is not your costume is like the whole thing.

00:42:04.020 Same thing with like Cinco de Mayo when they wear sombras and ponchos and they're like Cinco de Drinco.

00:42:12.380 Throw it in the trash.

00:42:13.720 Put that on the car and I'll drive away too.

00:42:15.680 You know what I mean?

00:42:16.260 Put it all up there at the same time and I'll take off.

00:42:18.440 But it's just like that goes back to what we were talking about before of just like just the hyper our culture is being hyper sexualized.

00:42:25.280 All the time.

00:42:26.120 All of our cultures in the Pacific.

00:42:27.760 It's like.

00:42:28.320 Which is you know and this is tea but they that's obviously Native Hawaiian culture that they're appropriating which is different from Samoan culture.

00:42:35.500 But these dingbats can't tell the difference.

00:42:37.080 They all think we're the same.

00:42:37.860 However when they put us in these kind of buckets if you look at the way Samoan women are characterized a lot of times they're masculinized.

00:42:48.500 It's like the complete opposite.

00:42:49.740 They're not hyper sexualized in that way.

00:42:51.780 They're over masculinized.

00:42:53.540 And then like it's this very like rampant like it's misogyny essentially is what it is.

00:42:59.980 But it's so like did you ever see like when Moana was first announced and they had pictures of like it was like the two characters.

00:43:08.480 It was Moana and Maui.

00:43:09.620 And they swapped them.

00:43:11.100 Do you remember that?

00:43:11.640 And they were like this is more accurate.

00:43:13.680 Sometimes when I tell people that they don't remember.

00:43:15.400 But like Samoan people do because it was circulating in our circles a lot.

00:43:18.960 And they were like ha ha ha ha ha.

00:43:20.820 This is more accurate.

00:43:21.660 Ha ha ha.

00:43:22.400 And I said see this is the difference between like how Samoan women are characterized versus other Pacific Islander cultures.

00:43:28.520 But none of those people can tell the difference anyways.

00:43:31.460 Until it comes to shit like that.

00:43:33.000 And then they're like oh big fat lady.

00:43:35.780 That makes sense.

00:43:36.620 Samoan.

00:43:37.180 You know what I mean?

00:43:37.880 Yeah.

00:43:38.140 It's fucking ridiculous.

00:43:39.300 I feel like Samoan women to me are just so feminine.

00:43:44.660 Like so feminine.

00:43:45.520 And from an outward perspective Samoan people in general we're just bigger people.

00:43:50.640 That's what I said before.

00:43:51.800 We're just bigger people.

00:43:52.620 That doesn't mean that we're that are you know women or anybody or any less feminine.

00:43:56.580 Yeah.

00:43:56.880 And even then I'm always like feminine masculine shit is a byproduct of colonization anyways.

00:44:03.580 Like we never saw shit that way literally at all.

00:44:06.920 You know what I mean?

00:44:07.400 It wasn't it's always and it's always so closely aligned to white supremacy like these beauty standards that they're enforcing on.

00:44:14.500 They like so strictly enforce on Tongan and Samoan women specifically.

00:44:17.780 They're always like oh they're so big and fat and gross or whatever.

00:44:22.220 However they characterize us.

00:44:24.080 But when it comes to like Tahitian Hawaiian women they're very like hypersexualized which is a bad thing too.

00:44:31.720 They're just like two opposite ends of the spectrum.

00:44:33.900 Yeah.

00:44:34.260 But they always do that to me.

00:44:35.580 Like they'll call me a man and shit like that.

00:44:37.300 And I'm like first of all I'm your dad.

00:44:39.860 So lower your voice when you talk to me.

00:44:41.840 First of all second of all I'd say that too if I was 5'6 at 27.

00:44:47.280 That's a bummer for you.

00:44:49.420 But see you're so tall.

00:44:50.540 Like Samson is really tall.

00:44:51.600 Samson is taller than me and I have really big platforms on and I'm a tall bitch too.

00:44:55.600 But that's so typical of us.

00:44:57.540 Like we're just so.

00:44:58.600 It's just so.

00:44:59.180 Okay I'm just jumping all over the place.

00:45:00.540 My brain is scattered because I'm so excited to have another Samoan person on the show.

00:45:04.160 But when I interviewed The Rock a lot of people were like I know you've told us a lot that you're large.

00:45:10.320 Like big.

00:45:11.120 Like I always say I'm a big bitch.

00:45:12.520 I've always said that.

00:45:13.260 And they're like but seeing you stand next to The Rock and you guys are like eye level really put it into perspective for me.

00:45:20.980 Because he looks like 6'9".

00:45:23.300 He looks massive.

00:45:24.420 Yeah but he's like 6'5".

00:45:26.580 Like realistically.

00:45:27.700 Which is not small.

00:45:28.960 Don't get me wrong.

00:45:30.180 But for Samoan people that's very average to us.

00:45:32.400 We're like oh okay.

00:45:33.380 Because my boyfriend's 6'4".

00:45:34.500 My dad is 6'6".

00:45:35.640 Yeah I'm 6'4".

00:45:36.440 Yeah exactly.

00:45:37.640 So like you see what I mean?

00:45:38.740 Like 6'5 we're like oh.

00:45:40.640 To a Samoan person they're like that's shorter than I thought he would be.

00:45:43.260 I thought he would be like 6'9".

00:45:45.080 But the guy who plays him in The Young Rock he was there.

00:45:48.720 Right.

00:45:48.940 Another Samoan man.

00:45:49.900 I forget his name.

00:45:50.540 I'm so sorry.

00:45:51.540 But he was like 6'11".

00:45:53.700 Like that dude was so tall.

00:45:56.040 Are you serious?

00:45:56.900 Yes.

00:45:57.440 And you're like call me.

00:45:59.880 I'm going to need you to remember that name.

00:46:01.800 You know what I'm looking up after this.

00:46:03.300 I'm going to show Samson.

00:46:04.840 But that's a you know it's just like a random thing about like just the largesse of us.

00:46:10.280 Like we're just larger people bigger people.

00:46:11.980 That's why we're so good at sports.

00:46:13.920 Yeah.

00:46:14.300 Did you play sports?

00:46:15.220 Oh all of them.

00:46:16.000 Yeah obviously.

00:46:16.880 Duh.

00:46:17.240 What was your main one?

00:46:18.060 Volleyball?

00:46:18.800 Well they didn't have boys volleyball in high school but I still play volleyball now competitively.

00:46:22.640 But you know state champion in basketball, state champion in track and field, multiple events.

00:46:26.800 Period.

00:46:27.280 My sisters were volleyball, softball, basketball.

00:46:29.760 Yeah.

00:46:30.240 We did it all.

00:46:30.740 I played football too.

00:46:31.900 Yeah.

00:46:33.020 And you can take that to the bank man.

00:46:34.100 Yeah.

00:46:35.360 What'd you play in football?

00:46:36.820 I was a fullback.

00:46:39.420 Oh nice.

00:46:40.540 Fast.

00:46:41.180 Tall and fast.

00:46:42.100 I love that.

00:46:42.540 And middle linebacker.

00:46:43.460 Yeah.

00:46:43.820 Period bitch.

00:46:45.200 I didn't play a typical Samoan sport.

00:46:48.820 I played soccer.

00:46:50.180 Okay.

00:46:50.800 Yeah.

00:46:51.120 Which everyone's like that's the biggest soccer player I've ever seen in my fucking life.

00:46:55.160 Whenever I was on the field they were like who's that grown man?

00:46:58.260 Get him off the field.

00:46:59.220 Because everyone is so small who plays soccer.

00:47:01.460 Everyone's so small.

00:47:02.200 But I loved volleyball.

00:47:03.780 That was like my favorite sport when I started.

00:47:05.800 I didn't start playing volleyball until high school.

00:47:07.380 No?

00:47:07.820 No because I played soccer my whole life.

00:47:09.360 So I played travel ball.

00:47:11.020 So that's all I did.

00:47:11.960 Okay.

00:47:12.380 And so then when I went to high school and I was introduced to volleyball I was like this

00:47:15.940 is so fun.

00:47:16.700 Like I love playing volleyball even now.

00:47:18.780 If I see a volleyball I make my sister pepper with me every single time.

00:47:21.500 I'm like get over there and play with me.

00:47:23.140 It's so fun.

00:47:23.560 It's so fun.

00:47:24.340 We love volleyball.

00:47:24.820 You know people back in the islands like love it too.

00:47:26.360 You have like the dirt core.

00:47:27.980 Yeah.

00:47:28.260 It's like a string, a net and then we'll go out and play.

00:47:31.240 That's why we're so like naturally athletic.

00:47:33.480 I've done so many stories on that when I was in college about like Samoan football players

00:47:38.880 and like that's also what we're always only known for.

00:47:42.160 Which is why I think you and I are so like powerful as far as representation goes because

00:47:47.460 we're in a completely different sector.

00:47:49.480 It's not solely reliance on physicality and like being good at sports because we already

00:47:55.100 know we're good at sports.

00:47:56.000 No.

00:47:56.080 That's why when men tell me they're like you should get back to the O-line.

00:47:59.520 They need you.

00:48:00.060 I'm like the hilarious part about that joke is like I have more of a chance of making

00:48:03.820 it than you do.

00:48:04.620 And that's the tea bitch.

00:48:06.380 In this outfit I could go.

00:48:08.020 I could walk on to USC.

00:48:09.920 It's dark.

00:48:10.920 You know what I'm saying?

00:48:11.880 It's the truth.

00:48:12.880 They'd scout me for real.

00:48:14.420 It's like these pipsqueaks saying this to us.

00:48:16.320 And it's like love.

00:48:20.040 Just bring me my water.

00:48:21.540 No literally.

00:48:22.640 Okay.

00:48:23.100 I'd say that too if I was third string, babe.

00:48:25.740 Okay.

00:48:26.160 So let me get back to this video.

00:48:27.860 Okay.

00:48:28.200 So the hula girl.

00:48:29.960 Right.

00:48:30.480 She said put me on your dashboard.

00:48:32.840 Okay.

00:48:33.260 The source comment.

00:48:33.980 It says you're acting like she cares.

00:48:36.340 Just shut up.

00:48:37.360 See she doesn't care about it.

00:48:39.000 Just leave her alone.

00:48:40.540 Weirdo.

00:48:40.980 Was that?

00:48:43.340 What?

00:48:44.080 I'm like do you need me for this conversation?

00:48:46.520 Like are you talking to me?

00:48:48.580 Why would you?

00:48:49.460 This like comment too is so misspelled.

00:48:51.640 There's like so many misspelling.

00:48:52.800 Is that a coherent thought?

00:48:54.080 I don't know.

00:48:55.000 Sometimes I think people just like.

00:48:56.880 It's almost like butt text.

00:48:58.200 But they put it in comments.

00:48:59.460 They're like I'm just going to write it.

00:49:00.660 No one's ever going to see it.

00:49:01.960 I saw it and you're stupid.

00:49:04.240 Okay.

00:49:04.480 Next comment.

00:49:05.680 Let's go on to the next one.

00:49:06.220 It says it's a costume.

00:49:08.680 Since when is wearing that costume?

00:49:11.900 Wait what?

00:49:12.820 They didn't even finish that line.

00:49:14.060 It's Halloween.

00:49:14.860 You're soft.

00:49:15.600 And you need to shut the hell up.

00:49:17.740 See that's a white guy.

00:49:19.080 Sad.

00:49:20.860 Got him.

00:49:22.220 That's a white person right there.

00:49:23.660 Who wrote that?

00:49:24.880 You need to shut the hell up.

00:49:27.460 You know what else is kind of white?

00:49:28.820 Calling people a weirdo.

00:49:30.600 That's super weirdo.

00:49:33.020 You know what I mean?

00:49:34.020 It sounds like Lizzie McGuire.

00:49:37.160 Yeah.

00:49:39.060 Yeah.

00:49:39.500 Like a super early 2000s when they're like whatever made your leader.

00:49:44.580 Gordo.

00:49:45.080 More like weirdo.

00:49:48.000 See the way they eat people up with those.

00:49:50.860 Stick to those man.

00:49:52.520 They hit every time.

00:49:53.960 I could listen to them argue all day.

00:49:55.380 I know.

00:49:56.380 It's so funny.

00:49:58.640 That's rich.

00:50:00.580 That's their like listen buddy.

00:50:02.400 When they say things like that.

00:50:03.240 Bucko.

00:50:03.660 Yeah.

00:50:03.960 They say pal.

00:50:06.180 What pisses me off is when someone calls me bud.

00:50:09.020 Bud.

00:50:09.320 Like when a white person calls me bud.

00:50:11.040 That shit.

00:50:12.120 I'm like you're about to eat me up.

00:50:14.720 I'm not your bud.

00:50:17.600 They have the most like.

00:50:19.420 They're just so.

00:50:21.240 I guess like PG is what I'm thinking in my head.

00:50:23.460 You know what I mean?

00:50:23.980 Like they're so not like mean or pointed.

00:50:27.100 They could be said in many different ways.

00:50:28.640 But it's just like their inflection and their tone.

00:50:30.960 Well for sure.

00:50:31.520 It's like weirdo.

00:50:32.640 Brady Bunch.

00:50:33.480 Leave it to the beaver.

00:50:36.900 Loser.

00:50:37.740 Like when you say things like that.

00:50:39.340 Oh man.

00:50:40.560 Sometimes I say that to white dudes and they do not like that.

00:50:43.520 They are not fans of those kinds of things.

00:50:45.520 Or insults.

00:50:46.280 Getting a taste of their own medicine.

00:50:48.940 Okay.

00:50:49.380 This last comment says it's always the girls doing this dumb stuff.

00:50:52.860 Saying oh my God stop.

00:50:54.300 That's my culture.

00:50:56.020 This is childish.

00:50:56.840 I think.

00:50:59.940 I don't identify as a girl.

00:51:02.280 First of all.

00:51:03.120 I'm saying that shit all the time.

00:51:06.100 I always say this shit is stupid.

00:51:07.960 Stop it.

00:51:08.580 It is.

00:51:08.980 It is so.

00:51:09.840 I also think too.

00:51:10.960 I'm like aren't you just embarrassed?

00:51:13.520 Wouldn't you be embarrassed?

00:51:15.100 Like have you no shame?

00:51:16.660 You know what I'm saying?

00:51:17.500 Like bring back being embarrassed.

00:51:19.440 Let's bring it back.

00:51:20.860 Let's bring back humiliating yourself and being like oh my God.

00:51:23.680 That was the most embarrassing that's ever happened to me.

00:51:25.800 It's like they're halfway there.

00:51:27.900 They're doing the humiliating thing.

00:51:29.900 It's just like they need the recognition.

00:51:31.620 Yeah.

00:51:31.640 But it's like exactly.

00:51:33.100 It's like they've been conditioned to never think that anything they do is bad or inappropriate.

00:51:38.160 So they're like this is fine.

00:51:39.600 It's so bad.

00:51:40.200 Yeah.

00:51:40.440 And then when you tell them they're like what do you mean I've been doing this my whole life?

00:51:43.080 That's embarrassing.

00:51:44.340 What's the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to you?

00:51:46.640 I have a couple stories.

00:51:47.760 You go first.

00:51:48.460 Well I think.

00:51:49.180 I think I.

00:51:49.660 Well I have two.

00:51:50.540 I'll tell.

00:51:51.000 Okay.

00:51:51.280 I'll tell one of them first.

00:51:52.700 When I was in like.

00:51:54.300 Just like getting so serious like I'm in therapy.

00:51:57.780 But this is also like on topic with being someone because it has to do with my mom in both stories.

00:52:02.920 She didn't do anything to me but she was obviously there.

00:52:05.340 Okay.

00:52:05.580 So the first one I used to play the flute.

00:52:07.500 Right.

00:52:07.760 Like I was a bad bitch on the flute.

00:52:09.780 Wood wins.

00:52:10.540 Rise up.

00:52:11.040 You know what I mean?

00:52:11.580 So I made honor band.

00:52:13.080 Big deal.

00:52:14.000 When I was in like fifth grade.

00:52:15.580 So I was what?

00:52:16.240 Ten.

00:52:16.860 Mind you I was five four at the time.

00:52:19.040 That's just an ominous fact.

00:52:20.680 I'm just putting that out there.

00:52:21.840 Anyways.

00:52:22.580 So I do my honor band.

00:52:24.240 And when.

00:52:25.100 My name's Afwalo.

00:52:25.980 So like I'm like first in every tenets.

00:52:27.860 Were you first in like every.

00:52:29.620 Every role sheet.

00:52:30.720 Everything.

00:52:30.960 I was always like the first one.

00:52:32.200 So he calls me and I get my honor band.

00:52:34.360 It's a concert.

00:52:35.720 Right.

00:52:36.000 And so for the concert you wear black pants white top.

00:52:40.160 And so for the for the bombs because I've always been an extra ass bitch.

00:52:44.260 I wanted to wear my mom's like they're like these velour like pants like dance pants.

00:52:49.860 And they were really flared on the bottom and like they were too long on me.

00:52:52.900 My mom was like those are too long.

00:52:54.120 You shouldn't wear those.

00:52:55.580 And I was like lady fashion before everything.

00:52:59.500 You're on your mind if you think I'm changing.

00:53:01.180 She's like well at least roll them.

00:53:03.000 Right.

00:53:03.100 And I go that bunches and then you see the bunch under my white shirt.

00:53:06.680 Girl you're talking to me crazy.

00:53:09.100 So I wear that.

00:53:09.700 She's like OK.

00:53:10.480 So I wear the.

00:53:11.160 She lets me wear my outfit.

00:53:12.820 Go.

00:53:13.240 He calls me.

00:53:14.000 I walk up to the front of the stage.

00:53:15.500 He puts the metal on me.

00:53:16.980 I'm like bad bitch tings.

00:53:18.280 My mom takes a picture of me.

00:53:19.960 Right.

00:53:20.800 I turn around bitch.

00:53:22.300 My whole puma.

00:53:23.760 Because that's what I was wearing.

00:53:24.960 Got stuck in my pant leg.

00:53:26.500 I put I step down pull my pants to my ankles bitch to my ankles and that wasn't even the

00:53:35.700 worst part.

00:53:36.700 I literally fell like straight to my face.

00:53:38.740 You know when you don't even have time to catch yourself straight to my face head slams

00:53:43.100 on the hardwood.

00:53:44.720 There's floor mics because it's a concert.

00:53:46.680 Do do do do do do do like it's like echoes like Thor landed outside and I'm laying face down

00:53:52.680 Choney's out and I'm like this is a bummer.

00:53:56.940 Oh you know when you almost it's like so embarrassing that you like gaslight yourself

00:53:59.740 into believing it didn't happen.

00:54:01.260 That's what I did.

00:54:02.620 Almost immediately pull my pants up crawled back to my seat.

00:54:06.540 I didn't even stand up crawled all the way back.

00:54:09.360 I'm in the back like I'm in like row 25.

00:54:12.440 I crawled hands and knees bitch back to my seat.

00:54:15.520 Got up my buddy who sat next to me at the time.

00:54:17.960 His name was Billy.

00:54:19.120 What are the odds?

00:54:20.060 But he was like his name was William.

00:54:21.360 He's super white.

00:54:22.680 He I come back I sit my seat my face is red and I'm brown so that's bad and I'm like sweating

00:54:28.880 like dripping sweat and I sit in my chair and he's looking at me like this with his flute

00:54:34.180 because he also played the flute and then he goes are you okay and I go yeah why wouldn't

00:54:38.340 I be instantly start gaslighting.

00:54:40.280 I just gaslight everyone.

00:54:41.200 I'm like what did something of note happen recently that I should remember.

00:54:45.820 That's most embarrassing thing that happened to me but after that happened I go outside first

00:54:50.760 thing my mom says to me I told you not to wear those pants first thing she says to me first

00:54:55.320 and only thing she said to me she didn't go are you okay and then everyone wonders why

00:54:59.400 why why does hate not bother you that's why.

00:55:01.660 She's like you learned you gotta learn and you did.

00:55:05.800 Like a Samuwin mom nothing humbles you faster not even a little nothing humbles you faster.

00:55:11.120 She's just watching you crawl just like.

00:55:13.780 She was watching going you know when they suck their teeth and they're like I told her not

00:55:19.480 to wear those.

00:55:20.500 She's telling everyone I told her not to I told her not to wear those.

00:55:23.280 I don't know what she was doing honestly I wish I didn't remember that but I remember

00:55:26.940 it so clearly I remember what the room smelled like that's how traumatizing it was for me.

00:55:31.420 What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you?

00:55:32.920 I don't know if I can top that.

00:55:34.840 I think about a lot of instances when I was very drunk but I do have a specific memory from

00:55:43.800 I think I was six it was our first time to Hawaii.

00:55:46.040 Oh yeah.

00:55:46.660 Big Island.

00:55:47.280 Yeah yeah yeah.

00:55:47.680 First time experiencing.

00:55:48.280 I love Big Island.

00:55:49.000 It's beautiful.

00:55:50.080 Yeah.

00:55:50.180 We were what side you stay on Hilo or Kona.

00:55:53.920 We're on Kona side.

00:55:54.840 Oh yeah same.

00:55:55.740 Yeah.

00:55:56.380 My auntie and uncle have like a place up on the volcano.

00:55:59.160 Oh cool.

00:56:00.160 Love.

00:56:00.400 Or they used to.

00:56:01.280 Yeah.

00:56:01.560 But we went down to the beach and it was my first time experiencing like the waves in Hawaii.

00:56:07.820 Different.

00:56:08.440 It's open ocean waves.

00:56:09.660 Yeah.

00:56:09.700 It's nothing compared to anything that you're going to find in the continental US.

00:56:13.480 Not even a little.

00:56:14.480 I was six years old going out there minding my damn business.

00:56:18.860 And that wave completely just took me out.

00:56:23.200 And I'm standing there butt ass naked.

00:56:28.660 You lost your bottom?

00:56:29.880 Yeah.

00:56:30.860 They were gone.

00:56:32.720 That's how rough the waves were?

00:56:34.160 Yeah.

00:56:34.600 They just.

00:56:35.140 At least it was that and not me swept out the seat.

00:56:37.920 But I was like sitting there crying because like what am I.

00:56:40.040 I'm six.

00:56:41.520 Like I don't.

00:56:42.500 I'm not emotionally capable of handling this.

00:56:44.800 Everybody on the beach laughing because it's like oh haha that looks the kid.

00:56:48.980 The traumatized kid.

00:56:50.260 And you're just like a little too old for it to be cute.

00:56:53.760 You come up and they're like oh.

00:56:57.200 That's not that bad.

00:56:58.260 But that is pretty.

00:56:58.900 Actually that's pretty embarrassing.

00:57:00.040 Yeah.

00:57:00.280 And it was like day one or two of Hawaii so my ass was hella white.

00:57:04.560 I didn't even get a chance to even out.

00:57:06.760 These cheeks don't see the sun.

00:57:07.920 Oh my god.

00:57:11.880 That's so.

00:57:12.340 Dude in Hawaii the way that they like they warn you not to swim there if you're not like

00:57:18.680 a local if you're not a strong like an Olympic swimmer bitch like I even when I lived I lived

00:57:23.740 there for like five years I literally was like I'm there are certain beaches I will not swim

00:57:27.820 at because I just don't trust that I have the capacity to not I don't know drown I guess.

00:57:34.080 People don't understand the Moana is so strong.

00:57:36.740 It is.

00:57:37.440 It's crazy especially during certain seasons like winter time especially it's really really

00:57:43.240 bad.

00:57:44.500 It's just so funny.

00:57:45.280 It was just a random Hawaii story but the last time I was in Hawaii my whole family was

00:57:49.620 there and we were at the beach we were like at our favorite beach and it's super nice day like

00:57:55.180 really calm waves because you know if you go in the springtime that's like the best time

00:57:58.120 to go and swim and my brother who's 18 now but at the time he's like 17 he kept taking

00:58:05.160 out he loves to collect shells and rocks and shit but he kept taking it out of the ocean

00:58:08.760 and I was telling him put it back because that's kapu like to remove or especially earthly things

00:58:15.220 like it's just bad juju don't do that and I kept telling him stop doing that like he was

00:58:19.720 taking them on the beach and he was like oh you know I told him I explained to him it's

00:58:23.860 kapu is bad right he's not listening to me he goes he picks up this this big ass rock

00:58:29.180 and I was like put that shit back dude you're bringing bad energy to the trip he turns around

00:58:34.540 I'm not even kidding like if you believe in anything believe in karma because he turned

00:58:38.220 around he no waves the whole day randomly a big ass wave comes hits him in the back of

00:58:44.600 his head bitch rolls him onto the beach he's covered in sand like like like he almost died

00:58:51.140 and my family and I couldn't stop laughing because I was like I told you to stop touching

00:58:54.620 that shit I told you to put those rocks back in the ocean bitch it's like if there's one

00:58:59.460 thing we know it's that that's what I was saying I was like I told you to put that shit back

00:59:04.460 and then he never took another rock out of the ocean funny how that works sometimes you got

00:59:09.540 to learn the hard way yeah learned his lesson just a bit of a bruised ego best case scenario

00:59:15.360 honestly all for the better all for the better I think you know sometimes there are certain

00:59:19.200 lessons I can't teach you just gotta let happen to you yeah you know what I mean okay so we

00:59:24.560 did our videos we talked about the comments what is it you want people to know about like

00:59:29.180 cultural appropriation especially when it comes to Pacific Islander cultures when it comes

00:59:33.720 to Pacific Islander cultures it's what I said earlier like I think it's so important to

00:59:38.940 understand like especially with tattooing understand why there's so many people who

00:59:44.200 are against it and I mean genuinely understand don't just like brush the topic like yeah figure

00:59:48.840 it out yeah because it'll just it'll help you understand so much more yeah and that's

00:59:54.380 why I also said like get into open practices of things like it's a respectful way of being

01:00:00.400 able to engage and enter with some into someone else's culture yeah appreciate appreciate

01:00:05.760 yeah appreciate and I think uh too especially when it comes to tattooing um if you do a lot

01:00:12.840 of research into it you'll find like obviously the cultural significance of it like what it means to

01:00:17.400 us but then at the same time you'll see like how a lot of times those practices were banned

01:00:23.020 right or they weren't allowed to do them and that's not just our indigenous cultures there's many other

01:00:28.300 indigenous cultures where white supremacy and colonization like they forbade certain practices

01:00:33.800 like tribal tattooing especially the traditional way like the that we do it because it was deemed

01:00:40.560 like savage or just I don't know unholy those kinds of things so if you look at all of that

01:00:46.640 significance what makes you think that you have any right to get it is what I always think or you

01:00:51.240 could just eat shit that works too I'll tell you to do I'll tell you to do either I'll I'll either

01:00:55.320 most of the time I'll just say to eat shit I can respect that as opposed to getting instead of

01:01:01.020 getting that I need you to put your phone down go outside look at the sun smell the breeze look at

01:01:07.120 the ground pick up that piece of shit and eat it that's what I think you should do instead of asking

01:01:11.620 me as a non-Samoan person can I get Samoan tribal no no the answer is always no when it comes to us

01:01:18.340 no like someone who followed me I think they went to Samoa on like a mission trip or something but

01:01:22.100 they're like I got a tattoo of like a tea leaf or of a tarot or something you know how we're talking

01:01:27.120 about how white people like to tattoo like random little things I was like that's cute

01:01:30.740 yeah and it's not terrible yeah commemorate your little look at that colonizing experience

01:01:36.900 what a fun way to do that

01:01:43.460 also if you've never worked at a calo farm I don't want to hear you talk about calo

01:01:50.020 it that shit is hard I had to do I did do like a I did go this is so off topic anyways again when

01:01:56.620 I went to UH one of the requirements when you go there I don't know if it still is but you have to

01:02:00.320 take a Hawaiian studies class so you can understand and learn about the culture that you're like

01:02:06.140 basically interacting with and visiting every single day that you're living in Hawaii which I

01:02:09.560 think is really cool but there was a thing where we had to work on like a lo'i farm that was like

01:02:13.420 part of it bitch I've never been eaten by mosquitoes more in my life oh my god I'm like if you've never

01:02:20.220 interacted with like the lo'i or done like calo or any kind of farming no you're not allowed to do

01:02:25.460 that go do that first and then you tell me if you want to get tribal tattooed on you dude how long did

01:02:30.960 you do that for we had to do it for like an hour I was like this feels really off the books this

01:02:35.900 feels like I'm not supposed to be this feels like manual labor free yeah they're like this is for

01:02:40.520 the for class I'm all is it yeah bitch I was on there they have a lo'i farm on campus they have

01:02:45.960 a few oh do they really yeah so I was I was down there harvesting bitch oh my god they had me

01:02:52.380 pushing on my sleeves and everything do that and then tell me if you want to be someone who's allowed

01:02:57.560 to get to pass to get tribal and even if you do it the answer is still gonna be no so don't bother

01:03:02.000 don't do it anyways that's gonna do it for this episode of the comment section show thank you so much

01:03:07.820 for joining us today thank you so much to my wonderful amazing guest Stanson where can everybody

01:03:12.560 find you uh you can find me on instagram and tiktok at half casted uh once again my name is Stanson

01:03:18.240 Afoa and thank you for having me again yes I'm so I'm so happy to have you I'm so excited you came

01:03:23.320 you're the best and Stanson is so funny and so smart please make sure you go follow him on all

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