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It's a beautiful dress and I think the whole 'cultural appropriation' thing is just BS and it's stuff like that that make people think that liberals are crazy.
If someone copies me - I'm just gonna take that as a compliment and go on with my life.
Why should anyone apologize for a grievance that isn't even real? There is no such thing as "cultural appropriation.* It's made up so people can act offended about something and control others. You would be a fool to buckle to that kind of nonsense.
If you make an insensitive comment, a bad joke, yes. This? Doesn't exit.
So if someone decided to wear an indigenous headress to a prom, that would be perfectly fine?
Do you equate that with hoop earrings and/or a dress?
It's nothing more than wearing something that looks cool to an event that might be fun.
I was at a dinner last week where the indigenous speaker wore his headress during his speech, and after he walked behind the stage, put on a cowboy hat, and walked out of the building. That's "cultural appropriation" too.
A better way to stay on the right side of cultural appropriation: ridicule. Every person who claims it's an issue needs to be laughed at, every time they bring it up.
Laughed at in the most obnoxious way possible. Like the way Homer Simpson laughs. Just bust out loud over the top laughter.
Cool or not, if she offended people who hold that type of cultural costume with special significance, she should have apologized. Brash selfish defiance is not an appropriate response to learning of her undignified cultural ignorance.
We're talking about an 18-year-old here. "Brash self-defiance"? "Cultural ignorance"? You're way over the top. As usual.
Cool or not, if she offended people who hold that type of cultural costume with special significance, she should have apologized. Brash selfish defiance is not an appropriate response to learning of her undignified cultural ignorance.
Anyone who believes that a qipao is a type of cultural costume with special significance is guilty of undignified cultural ignorance.
As has been posted n times in this thread alone, the Chinese in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore and in other countries and on the Internet sell these dresses to any foreign person who wants one.
Most Chinese women will not even wear these dresses anymore, unless they work in a hotel or restaurant. Chinese women have been wearing western wedding gowns for the past 30 years.
Have you ever seen anyone wear an indigenous head dress anywhere in an attempt to be fashionable?
Someone else here mentioned Nehru jackets. Was that cultural appropriation or a fad?
Yep.
And harem pants. Kilts worn by Catholic school girls, (unless they're Scottish or Irish). Cowboy hats and boots. Moccasins. Mukluks. Bohemian-style fashions. Bagpipe music for any event of neither Scottish nor Irish heritage. St. Patrick's Day for non-Irish.
All examples of "cultural appropriation."
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