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If we're going to fire White women for putting their hair in corn-rows then we have to fire a shit ton of Black women who straighten their hair on the same cultural appropriation grounds.
Fair is fair.
Alternatively, we can be sane and stop with thinking that there's a bad thing called cultural appropriation.
Someone copying your hairstyle is an expression of admiration, not contempt.
Not only is what you said correct, but white women have been braiding their hair for millennia. In some cultures and times, so have white men. Every race has hair, and there are only so many things you can do with it.
ReplyDeleteThis objection is not reasoned or logical. It's a political power play. It is right to point it out, as that diminishes the power.
Daosus
The ancient Romans, and the Japanese throughout their history, were all ABOUT "cultural appropriation!" The Romans copied a lot of their architecture from the Greeks (and almost all upper-class Romans spoke fluent Greek), their swords from the Spaniards, mail armor from the Gauls (a Roman legionary under Caesar was armed and armored about like a Gallic chieftain) and cabbaged up every interesting religion they came across. As for Japan, they adopted things wholesale, from China (often via Korea) for a very long time, and then from the West. In Japan these days, seeing someone on the streets in "traditional Japanese garb" (adapted from Tang Dynasty Chinese clothes, BTW) is the exception rather than the rule.
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