Popular influencer and travel vlogger Nas Daily stirred controversy in Southeast Asia last week after he referred to the Indonesian island of Bali as “the whitest island” in Asia.
The Arab-Israeli content creator, whose real name is Nuseir Yassin, posted a video on Instagram on Feb. 8 showcasing Bali and its white residents.
Yassin, 31, asked his 3.9 million Instagram followers if Bali is “the Whitest Island in Asia.”
“I’ve never seen anything like this. It seems like every Western tourist in the world comes to live in Bali. Why? Now that I’m finally inside, I found the answer!” he wrote in the caption of his recent post, which has already garnered over 3.3 million views and 271,000 likes.
The content creator’s 1-minute-and-30-second video starts with him highlighting Bali’s white residents, emphasizing that “everywhere you go there are white people” on the Southeast Asian island.
Yassin ponders why they relocated to Bali, the “island that captured the western world’s attention.” He then shares a few reasons why he thinks they made the popular tourist destination their new home, listing “the nature,” “Indonesian hospitality,” “the [affordable] prices” and “scooters.”
On the natural environment in Bali, Yassin proclaims, “It’s stunning. Rice field after rice field. Everything around you is green!”
He then declares that Bali has “some of the best hotels in the world with the best Indonesian hospitality.”
While discussing the prices in Bali, he says that “everything here is affordable… to white tourists, at least.”
Lastly, he mentions scooters, explaining that “it’s how everybody gets around. “No subway system, no buses, just scooter [sic] in green, beautiful rice fields.”
“No wonder so many white people and non-white people call this island their home,” Yassin says near the end of his viral video.
Several Instagram users were quick to express their outrage in the comment section of his…
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