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Lately, everywhere I look, there is some news story or article about cultural appropriation. Some person or group is always on the defensive about having their culture stolen.
Zara's (an online clothing retailer) was attacked on twitter for selling a long skirt that looked too much like a Lungi.
H&M under fire for selling a "chola" inspired mini checkered skirt.
A Black Lives Matter group protested outside of Solfire Yoga studio because the white owners organized a rap yoga class.
Yoga classes are being cancelled at some universities because of complaints from other students
Bindis and headdresses are being banned from music festivals because of cultural appropriation.
Celebrities who wear braids are being attacked on twitter for stealing hairstyles.
Fashion designers are being sued for cultural appropriation.
Seriously, I do not understand this whole idea of not being allowed to borrow from other cultures. So are people just not allowed to appreciate other cultures beauty and designs? Have we really gotten to the point where it's offensive that somebody likes something from another culture and chooses to bring it into their style?
It's stupid to me. It is absolutely ridiculous that people will get violent over a white person wearing dreads or putting gauges in their ears or a black girl wearing blonde straight hair. I don't get people these days. Finding offense over everything is the new thing.
The term is just applied for discriminatory reasons, but trying to me it like it is not discriminatory. If A black person straight out said "white girl should not wear braids because she is white" then that sounds racist. But is the black person says "the white girl wearing braids is cultural appropriation of black hair style" now it does not sound so racist, but fact is this is a racist statement.
Anyone using this term is just making a bigoted statement.
the BLM group was upset because raps history is about black people expressing their pain and stuggle
Exactly. People don't realize that the struggle of the Black community and the pain that growing up in a world of white privilege has few outlets for catharsis. Rap is one of those few things created by the black community that can serve as an outlet for the pain created by that struggle and to let white people appropriate it removes the empowerment it brings. I think Sir Mix-a-Lot put it best:
I like big butts and I can not lie
You other brothers can't deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung, want to pull up tough
'Cause you notice that butt was stuffed
Deep in the jeans she's wearing
I'm hooked and I can't stop staring
Oh baby, I want to get wit'cha
And take your picture
My homeboys tried to warn me
But with that butt you got makes (me so horny)
Ooh, Rump-o'-smooth-skin
I think intellectual laziness is weird. Stop pinning all this crap on all liberals.
You think Conservatives came up with the idea of "cultural appropriation" having negative or racist connotations?
How so?
Conservatives are all about adding other compatible cultures to American society being a positive thing, not a negative.
The key is that word "compatible" as in people who don't want to kill us.
So, how is something like white people wearing corn rows or dreadlocks a negative form of cultural appropriation but black people straightening their hair is not?
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