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isn’t it funny? how Hollywood loves our culture but when it comes to US as HUMANS we don’t exist. we become whitewashed.

y'all wanna make a movie about Michael Jackson but use a white guy. an apperantly tone deaf white guy. then there’s some ignorant people who wanna say “ but Michael Jackson was white when he diEd!!!2!21!11!! ” bitch no. he was black when he was born and black when he died. point blank end of sentence.

then y'all wanna steal everything else? space buns? bitch Bantu knots and they poppin not like them ugly ass lil “ space buns ”. boxer braids? bitch they are corn rows!!! I’m over Hollywood and their thievery of our culture.

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tbh whether you like it or not, that new Coldplay Beyonce song is definitely cultural appropriation. The sole purpose of that video being in India was for the aesthetic, and nothing else really. If they actually cared about appreciating the culture they would have hired an Indian director and/ or producer, and possibly even feature an Indian co-singer. The fact that all the major video team was non Indian, shows that they wanted to exploit the beauty of India, without giving anything in return. 

know I now loads of people don’t really give a shit about cultural appropriation, but I wrote this specifically for all the people who are bending over backwards to defend the music video. It’s cultural appropriation whether you like it or not

southgaysian
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i am so disappointed with beyoncé and her last cultural appropriation. and u know what’s worse? most people in the black community is defending her appropriation of south asian culture. wait a minute… we call out white people when they appropriate other cultures, but we stay quiet when poc do the same thing with the culture of other poc? i mean, that’s hypocrisy and it grosses me out. what beyoncé did is not right and i don’t care if she’s black. it doesn’t change the fact that she is NOT supposed to appropriate a culture.

shescarez
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anonymous asked:

To top surgery with no T anon. Check out Ryan cassata. He is on YouTube and tumblr and on YouTube he made a video about not being on T and getting top surgery with no T.

I’m not a big fan of him cause of that video he did with Arielle or whoever and the uh you know culturally appropriative dreadlocks he wore a while back. But yeah he’s not on T and had top.

scumbugg
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Feelings about hanbok in the US

As a 1.5gen Korean, very rarely do I see anyone wearing a Hanbok at cons since it’s not exoticised as much as Kimono, and I go to a lot of anime conventions (~20 per year). One year at a con (I think it was Otakon or Anime Next) I saw a lady wearing a Hanbok. I thought I’d be super mad but actually I was honestly super excited. First of all, it looked like a hanbok I would be excited to see one of my Korean friends wearing for new years or chusuk. Second of all, I got to have a really cool conversation with her about how she bought this Hanbok from a Hanbok store run by a Korean lady, so I was happy that people wanted to support other Koreans like myself who just want to be Korean in the US.

I cannot, as a Korean American woman, get myself to wear a Hanbok in public: It causes me way too much mental distress. Too many people see me wearing anything that doesn’t conform to American culture as being an open invitation to interrogate my identity as an American,

such as by greeting me in Asian languages (don’t ever do this), asking me where my parents are from (unless you are also east asian, don’t do this), telling me my outfit is “beautiful” (but you do not know what I am wearing nor my culture’s standards of beauty, so actually you are analyzing me based on western standards of beauty, which do not belong anywhere near my hanbok)….

After over a decade of life in the US, my own culture is toxic to me, because it’s what people constantly focus on to emphasize that I am not American to them, so I can’t actually wear my OWN clothes lol

But the problem with that is that Hanbok – Korean culture, my whole Korean-side of my identity as a 1.5 gen who remembers what it’s like in Korea in addition to knowing what it’s like in the US – is never ever normalized. My culture is always hidden away so that people will not use it to alienate me, and I cannot get people to get used to the Korean side of me. I can’t reveal the part of me that they can’t understand because they’ve worn me down raw.

So when I saw the lady at the anime con wearing a Hanbok, just like one of my friends still in Korea might, it was really exciting. I forgot that’s normal, that at one point Hanboks and everything Korean was so normal to me, so even though it was a foreigner in a Hanbok, I appreciated her for upholding Korean norms in a white normalized setting.

I hope one day I have enough Korean and east-asian allies to be able to wear a Hanbok myself. If you are willing to hear out and project our East Asian problems and how we’re constantly being rejected from the American society, if you want to help us normalize Korean things so that being Korean in the US feels normal, I say you could wear our clothes.

As a Korean woman, clothing is solidarity.

ps, read my tags
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anonymous asked:

Cultural appropriation isn't real hun 😊 all cultures should be shared without making fun of one another and the reason you're bringing white people into this is because you know it is appropriate to bash white people on tumblr.

cultural appropriation is disrespecting someone else’s culture?? thats why ppl are mad bc their culture has been disrespected! 

literally i have not bashed white ppl at all??

all i said was that the reason why older generations of indians and the diaspora have different opinions on cultural appro. was bc of the history of violent british colonialism. are u mad bc i mad the gall to bring up the effects of colonialism or? 

helloteaparty
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There’s a difference between appreciation and appropriation. Stop hating for absolutely no reason. And please stop spamming my Inbox with hate, I have an opinion, just like you do. (Read my previous post if you are lost here). Also, if Beyoncé is getting trashed for this, why isn’t Coldplay also being hated on in the same manner? Another reason why people just want to bring down a major icon… Stop hating and appreciate the beautiful video and music.

garryslay
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Country music is white culture.
You can’t listen to it and you can’t be associated with it.

Stop stealing it from us.

It’s pretty much the most racist thing on the planet because it belongs to our culture. You really should check your privilege.

You’re not white so you don’t even get to comment on whether or not it’s offensive to us.
Its our culture, not yours, so you don’t get to be a part of it.

THIS IS SATIRE, YOU TWITS.
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On the subject of dreadlocks, for example:

Let’s take a look at the definition of appropriation.

I’m gonna copy paste this straight from Google:

“ ap·pro·pri·a·tion
əˌprōprēˈāSH(ə)n/noun

the action of taking something for one’s own use, typically without the owner’s permission. example: ‘the appropriation of parish funds.’ ”

Cool. So now that we know what that means, we can figure out who specifically owns this hairstyle. Easy, right?


Except there are several cultures and religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity / Celtic folk, etc) that wear dreadlocks or have worn dreadlocks. It is not exclusively black culture.

Aside from that, who gives a shit? It’s hair. Nobody owns any particular hairstyle. 

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anonymous asked:

just an honest curiosity here, but why is henna/ mehndi culturally offensive? I've seen henna artists doing designs at a lot of festivals and we do it as a fundraiser every year at school w/ the indian umbrella club. Most of the time, anybody can go and get a henna tattoo from a certified henna artists. I understand why bindis and traditional wedding dress as a fashion statement is appropriation, but using henna to stain skin & hair seems more like a technique/procedure than anything else.

yeah but thats at an indian event! like u were invited to celebrate indian culture so it’s not appropriation in that case c:

but other cases can be appropriation bc indian ppl usually only apply henna for big events, like indian weddings and festivals, so when westerners get henna done for no reason it is not applied for the right occasion

hopefully that makes sense! 

helloteaparty
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So Coldplay’s new video for “Hymn for the Weekend” is set in Mumbai and it features a wonderfully vibrant city full of color, laughter and happiness on the day of Holi (the festival of colors). Beyonce wears Indian-inspired clothing designed by an Indian who wanted to depict India in a fun and different way. And you can tell that people commenting on YouTube know nothing about cultural appropriation. Me and my Indian friends loved this video. Hundreds of Indians loved this video. And yet, people are accusing them of cultural appropriation when the truth is, the video shows Mumbai in a fantastic way, portraying the vigor and life of Indian cities without stereotypes. It was a video about Holi, and all the elements were there: temples, colors, fireworks, mythical plays, oil lamps.

This is not cultural appropriation. This is not wearing a bindi cuz “it’s cool”. This is Beyonce wearing Indian-inspired fashion designed by an Indian designer in a video where she is herself in a movie called Rani (Queen). This is wonderful! It shows my country in a beautiful light, it shows Western singers and actresses actually respecting my culture, my fashion, my festivals, and being a part of it with assistance from Indian people themselves. This did not whitewash locals, or stereotype them into Mumbai slums. This portrayed all the brilliant and beautiful things that you see during times of festivities around India. Please, please stop acting as if you think it offends us when it doesn’t. And if it does offend some people, I’m extremely sorry. You must have your own valid reasons, but in this case I believe it’s a personal thing. However, please don’t speak “for the majority of Indians” because so many of us do like it and believe it’s a celebration of authentic Indian culture during Holi. Stop trying to force social justice on everything, especially when for a change India is represented in an authentic and non-Hollywood manner when it’s never portrayed well. I understand that she is not a part of my culture, but I believe in this case, it’s more appreciation than appropriation.

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anonymous asked:

I really don't think this is an example of cultural appropriation. I understand that people wearing slutty versions of traditional Native American dress is wrong and there are also many other examples but I don't understand why only people from India or of Indian descent should be allowed to wear saris etc... This was for a creative video actually filmed in India. There were no bad intentions.

this is incredibly wrong. cultural appropriation is simply the use of someone else’s culture by another culture and that’s exactly what happened in the video. there are levels to it. like you mentioned, wearing a slutty Native American dress may be worse than Bey wearing a sari but it still is what it is. don’t call it something else.

the video would’ve been just as gorgeous if she just didn’t wear that sari. no, she shouldn’t wear it because she is not Indian, she hasn’t married into an Indian family, etc. it’s not her culture. period. it doesn’t really matter if the director was Indian, it was shot in India or whatever. Iggy Azalea walks around here appropriating black culture regularly with full support from T.I., a black man. that doesn’t just automatically make what she’s doing ok.

i’m sure Bey and Coldplay’s intentions were great. i’m sure they just wanted to show how beautiful Indian culture is but again, it could’ve been done without her wearing the sari. for example, Michael Jackson’s Black or White video:

he beautifully displayed other cultures without actually wearing their culture.

anyway, sorry this is so long but i really need the Hive to accept this criticism as it comes. Bey’s not perfect, she’s gonna mess up and that’s ok. we learn and we move on, making sure it won’t happen again.

thequeenbey
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