A graduating high school student from Dallas is being called out on social media for cultural appropriation after wearing what was apparently supposed to be an Asian-themed dress and then posting images of the outfit on Instagram using a racial slur in her caption.

Instagram user x.armoni sparked controversy after showcasing a sparkly long dress and chopstick-style hairdo in an image with the caption: “They asked for lingling so I gave it to them.”

Many netizens from the Asian community took issue not only with her culturally-insensitive attire but also her caption.

Emma Tang (@lilaznfeminist) took to Twitter to condemn the outfit and call upon social media users to “do their thing.”

can twitter and insta do it’s thing? her IG is @x.armoni and not i’m not sure if all the people she tagged knew about this but the hair stylist definitely did. her IG is @dadaontheslay pic.twitter.com/TYceIrwd6E — ig: @intersectional.abc (@lilaznfeminist) May 19, 2019

Twitter user @kimchiispam also called attention to x.armoni’s post:

Can twitter do its thing? This girl literally appropriated and mocked a culture that doesn’t belong to her and using “ling ling” in her caption alone was already offensive and let’s not start on the hairstyle #racism #asians #activism pic.twitter.com/FS2aeC2SYG — kim saw bts 🙁 (@kimchiispam) May 19, 2019

Her @ is @x.armoni on Instagram. She was called out on her racist actions by many people including myself but she choose to be immature and reply with other racist stereotypes that are utilized to degrade asians — kim saw bts 🙁 (@kimchiispam) May 19, 2019

User @kimchiispam explained that racism against Asians is often taken as a joke.

“Asians face racism, discrimination, etc yet others proceed to take it as a joke when it IS NOT. It takes away from their real identity and it harms their culture because their culture is covered with many racist stereotypes,” she wrote in one tweet.

“Racism against Asians isn’t cute, it’s not funny. I’m tired of racism against Asians being so overlooked. People of color should look out for each other instead of pulling dumb shit like this,” she added.

The tweets sparked discussions online with some defending the girl, who herself is a person of color, for her “harmless” post and others pointing out that she should know better.

In response to the backlash, the 18-year-old student doubled down on her insults towards Asians and announced that she is not apologizing for her attire.

People have been emailing her school let’s hope she doesn’t graduate so she learns that her racist actions have consequences🤡 pic.twitter.com/n3730jkq6r — kim saw bts 🙁 (@kimchiispam) May 19, 2019

She is fully aware that what she did was racist nevertheless she is refusing to acknowledge that what she did was offensive on so many levels and instead replied like this pic.twitter.com/kAbQ2tCTZh — kim saw bts 🙁 (@kimchiispam) May 19, 2019

She tried to dismiss it and act as if it was no big deal when it fact it is a very big deal. Appropriating culture is RACIST. Using the derogatory term that she used is RACIST. She as a person of color SHOULD KNOW BETTER pic.twitter.com/eIUZy5MMsY — kim saw bts 🙁 (@kimchiispam) May 19, 2019

Some netizens also expressed their criticisms over the student’s actions.

The fact that her own people are calling her out yet she proceeds to be disrespectful really shows the lack of respect and the absolute ignorance pic.twitter.com/sawHZ0qCYZ — kim saw bts 🙁 (@kimchiispam) May 19, 2019