I am confused as to why it is good or bad or neither. Genuinely confused. Please and thank you.
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There’s lots of different thoughts regarding this, like “white person with dredlocks is cultural appropriation” which I’m not in the camp of.
To me, cultural appropriation is when someone of one race or culture uses parts of another culture in order to further themselves. Think Elvis stealing rock music from black people or Miley Cyrus adopting hip hop aesthetic in order to shift her career from Disney girl to her own thing. Nobody is actually getting upset about a white person wearing a kimono or having dreds and if they are, they’re being silly. Instead, keep an eye out for things like politicians wearing cultural garb from other cultures in order to appeal to voters instead of in actual appreciation of another culture, for that is far more sinister.
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