it’s not actually about the $0.50. the waitress/employee was being discriminatory and charging her $0.50 for utensils. she pointed out that she was just at the waffle house the previous night and didn’t have to pay extra for utensils and wanted to submit a formal complaint because she knew she was being discriminated…

it’s bad because not only is it insulting but it’s impossible - it’s not historically accurate. in fact in this period of china before the times of marco polo, china wasn’t even aware that europeans existed. it wasn’t even called china at the time, hua mulan lived in the northern wei kingdom prior to chinese…