There is a lot of inappropriate behavior with Asians and their “stereotypes”. At my school one day, the dean was reading out a list of possible classes you could take. She was mentioning that one of the languages you can take was Chinese and immediately I heard “ching chong” from the people by me, and I heard other people laugh

It’s a fine line between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation, a delicate situation, sparking vicious debates up to many contrasting opinions and perspectives. The technical definition of cultural appropriation, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, is “the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, especially without showing that you understand or respect this culture.”

Growing up in Hong Kong, our family always went to a particular floating seafood restaurant, because one of my uncles worked there so we could get a nice table with a good service and excellent food.

Cultural appropriation in fashion isn't new. Most of the “trends” we follow year after year are created on runways where the targeted consumers are those who don't think twice about buying a £580 hat.

Our story starts in a region especially close to my heart, as this is a province from which my parents came. Punjab was split into two during the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. This was as much an ideological partition as a geographical one, and as borders were redrawn, the region's culture was fighting to emerge more whole than the country it lost to.

Has the MeToo movement reached Japan? At first glance, from an outsider’s perspective, the answer would probably be no. However, although the small steps that Japan is taking may seem minute in comparison to other countries, the pace of change is in fact monumental.