Yeah, the kid who sings it is very cute (if very, very strangely dressed) and the song is also cute (and really catchy), but mostly the song is so... so... offensive.

Not only do you have the obvious mockery of the way a Hmong child speaks Thai, which, because of how widespread such mockery is, has led to tribal people abandoning their languages so that their kids might avoid the belittlement that comes from speaking less-than-perfect Thai, but you also have a nice hegemonic microcosm here, played out in children's theatre. The sophisticated, mountain-transplanted Thai alpha-child who eats expensive food is so impressed by the friendliness, generosity, and naïveté of the small-bodied, white-faced natives - who are her peers in name only - that she revels in how cute they are as they suppress their insecurities in order to make the effort to communicate with her in her language. How thoughtful of the alpha-child.

But, you know, it is a cute song. And while it has made many people (both tribal and Thai) here very angry, some tribal people like it and even go around singing it. To each his own, I guess.

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