This girl in Indonesia called Marsha became a trending topic on Twitter because she said that "students in the government schools are villagers". This for some reason made Indonesians on twitter mad as hell apparently. They were tweeting mean ish about her some tweeting people with the name "marsha" in their name telling them to shut the f*** up and all that mess. I mean like seriously has anyone seen anybody catch a feeling over such a banal statement? SMH This has to be the worst example of caught feelings.

LSA fonts do this shit ALL the time. Green Forest you know this!

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lol. But seriously, that comment wasn't nothing to get mad about.

Maybe they felt that she was trying to put them down, but why some people are really sensitive is beyond me..

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From what I gathered, she was just a "typical" girl who wasn't famous. I mean seriously. Maybe it just be but damn... that wasn't s&it.

Unless Indonesians register on LSA and bombard the thread with threats and hate, I think your prayers will go unanswered.

Perhaps being called a villager is an insult to Indonesians. But why a random chick's comment would be so hurtful is beyond me.

Perhaps she goes to a private school and those students are considered full of themselves/uppity/snobs/whatever.

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Hmm...I'm just gonna take the comment as similar to the "so poor, so black" statement that Barbara Bush made during the Katrina aftermath. Hell, some whites say the same "catching feelings over nothing" statements when we get riled up over an ignorant statement. Even if the Marsha girl is Indonesian, making broad statements that attack one's pride is pure ignorance.

And I'm guessing she didn't just say "villagers"...mo re like some derogatory/incendiary term that was just translated to "villagers".

This girl reached #1 on the Trending Topics. Am I the only one who thinks that this is weird and that people generally need to lighten up?

Honestly maybe you should hit up one of the Indonesian people she offended, you will get an answer then of why they took it that way. Everyone takes stuff differently

Unless the word Villagers means something REALLY derogatory over there

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The comment was translated by an some Indonesian person on twitter. To be honest with you, I don't see how it is comparative to Barbara Bush's "So poor, so black" comment. It is true the statement contains some class-based bigotry but seriously rich children are in public schooling all the time.

It is. It's basically saying that they come from uneducated parents, they are poor, they are low class, and they are ignorant and backward.

It's like someone saying Black people who attend public schools are poor and ghetto.

She got what she deserved.

ETA: It's not that being a villager is an insult, it's just the connotation of the term and how people use it coupled with the "government school" comment. It's a class thing.

It's like saying all people who go to state funded universities are poor, ghetto, blah, blah.

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True...but maybe the class based bigotry is what they were lashing out at. We don't know what exactly is the situation in Indonesia in terms of society and class to really make exact statement but to rile up a massive group of people, it had to be a class thing...

Or this Marsha chick could have had a whole speech and the only thing that was picked out was the "villagers" comment. I'm not on Twitter but please feel free to update this thread with the entire statement translated.

I do have to applaud Indonesians for making a fuss on Twitter over a statement. That takes pride, something that we need a bit more of in the U.S.