A Classmate Complained About Being “Forced” To Eat Ethnic Food So Student Maliciously Complies And Gives Her White Bread

Some people, I tell ya…

Their worldview is so narrow and they’re so cut off from the world that they can’t appreciate when someone tries to introduce them to someone new.

The story you’re about to read from Reddit’s “Malicious Compliance” page proves what I just said in a major way.

The person who wrote the story said happened in a calculus class in high school.

“This happened about a year ago now when I was in high school. My calculus class was very chill. About 20 kids who were all friendly with each other, a laid back but enthusiastic teacher, and a light enough workload that we could afford to goof off in class but still learn and do well.

At some point in the year I got really into cooking. It’s my stress reliver. My family couldn’t possibly eat the amount of food I was made so I started bringing it into school and “hosting” Friday parties in my calc class, with my teacher’s approval of course.

Now, I’m Vietnamese and I live in a predominately white town. This is only important because it meant that most kids from town only ate American or European foods, and weren’t used to eating other ethnic foods.

They wanted to treat their friends to some of their native cuisine.

Who wouldn’t love that?!?!

Last year around Lunar New Year, I wanted to bring in some Vietnamese foods to celebrate. It is a very important time of year for my family. I ended up making a bunch of Bánh Da Lợn, a steamed layer cake and a traditional Vietnamese dessert.

Some of my friends from class found out I was going to bring in a traditional dish and brought in their own traditional dishes from their own cultures, whether they celebrated Lunar New year or not. We had different Indian, Korean, Filipino, and Spanish desserts. It was great and I was really excited that my friends wanted to celebrate with me.

Well, apparently one person wasn’t into the idea…

Apparently this was an issue for one girl in my class.

I would say Bánh Da Lợn is an acquired taste, so when not a lot of people ate it I wasn’t offended. I knew not everybody would like it. There was a lot of other food anyways.

During our lunch period one of my friends (who wasn’t in our class but knew I brought food in) overheard a girl from my class complaining about the food while on the lunch line. Apparently she was saying really negative things about how I “forced everyone to eat weird Chinese foods.”

Later that day I texted her just saying I heard she didn’t like the food and wanted to know why. I don’t really care when people don’t like the food (I make it for myself and bring it in when I have extra anyways), but her calling it “weird Chinese foods” (when she knows I’m Vietnamese) didn’t sit right with me.

And the student sounded like an ignorant jerk when they explained their feelings.

Welp, she texted back that it was rude of me to bring in weird ethnic foods that nobody would have liked except for me and said I should know better since most of the class was white.

I told her that I bring in food to share because I feel like it and that I don’t have an obligation to cater to her tastes. If she has an issue with it, she literally does not have to eat it, and other people can bring in food too so if she wanted to she could bring in something more to her tastes.

After that she just told me that I shouldn’t bring in ethnic and foreign foods and stick with American foods, “because we’re in America.” Excuse me??? Like??? How much you wanna bet if I brought in jambalaya, which originated in Louisiana, she would call it a “weird foreign food.”

Ask and you shall receive.

Fine. She only wants to eat American foods? Then she can eat American foods.

The next week I brought in a bunch of Oliebol, a Dutch doughnut, and started passing them out at the beginning of class.

When I got to her desk I pulled out a loaf of Wonder Bread and plopped it on her desk, saying “Sorry but these are Dutch, too ethnic. Here you go, all American cuisine.”

Later she texted me asking what my problem was, so I told her that almost every single food I brought in this year was ethnic and that it ****** me off she only had an issue when it wasn’t European.

She’s entitled to not liking Asian foods but if you’re going to complain about it being ethnic, then you better have that same attitude when the ethnic food is white. And especially don’t call another person’s culture weird.

It seems like this tactic really did the trick!

She didn’t complain about the food again.

Also, before anyone comments: white bread isn’t the only American cuisine out there. Here’s a short list of what I’ve enjoyed making: tater tots, jambalaya, fried chicken, many types of pies, smores, and Philly Cheesesteaks. America is a very diverse place, and that’s reflected in its food. Happy eating!”

And here’s how folks reacted on Reddit.

One individual made a good point about “ethnic food.”

Another individual talked about a nice experience they had when they were a kid.

This Reddit user said this person sounds BORING.

Another reader loves to try new food./

I agree!

And this person made a pretty funny comment.

Bring all the ethnic food on over this way!

I can’t get enough of the stuff!