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The video posted to YouTube Monday was ripe for modern Internet consumption: a confrontation between a black woman and a white man — on a college campus — about dreadlocks.

It appears to begin in medias res, as a heated discussion about cultural appropriation turns physical.

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“You got some scissors?” the woman in the video asks someone standing to the side.

“You’re saying that I can’t have a hairstyle because of your culture?” the white man with dreadlocks, Cory Goldstein, responds. “Why?”

“Because it’s my culture,” she says. “Do you know what locs mean?”

Goldstein counters that dreadlocks were part of Egyptian culture, asking her: “Are you Egyptian? Nah, brah, you’re not.”

“Are you Egyptian?” she repeats back at him, to which he says, “No, but it doesn’t matter,” and starts to walk away.

“Wait, where is Egypt?” she asks. “Tell me.” The woman uses her hands to block Goldstein’s path up the stairs. When he says, “Yo, girl, stop touching me right now,” she persists, mimicking his speech and pulling his sleeve.