High school student shamed for choice of prom dress
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Interesting. I wonder what the reaction would be here if the dude were black, and the she was wearing a dashiki at a house party.
And she wasn't gorgeous.
And she wasn't gorgeous.
Why don't you guys put your money where your mouth is and flood twitter with, "OMG! You look so pretty, such a nice dress" comments?
Like this isn't a joke, I think it would actually be nice if we did that for her. Tell her not everyone is coming for her throat
Like this isn't a joke, I think it would actually be nice if we did that for her. Tell her not everyone is coming for her throat
Twitter is reacting like she put on false buck teeth, a rice hat and went "ching chong"!
"My culture is not your prom dress"
It's not your culture, it's a dress from your culture. Just like the suits you wear from the western culture. Infact the Qípáo is literally the Chinese version of a gown so a prom of all places is an appropriate place to wear it.
I wouldn't bat an eye if some non Indian wore a saree, because it's just a dress that isn't even held in some sacred regards as people wear it everyday formally and informally. If anything I'm often flattered when someone wears it as it tells me that they like an Indian dress. If she was stereotyping the Chinese by going overboard with stereotypical makeup or wearing a dress that's traditionally considered to have some sort of sacred/spiritual meaning to the Chinese, THEN we'd have a case but she isn't doing that.
It's not your culture, it's a dress from your culture. Just like the suits you wear from the western culture. Infact the Qípáo is literally the Chinese version of a gown so a prom of all places is an appropriate place to wear it.
I wouldn't bat an eye if some non Indian wore a saree, because it's just a dress that isn't even held in some sacred regards as people wear it everyday formally and informally. If anything I'm often flattered when someone wears it as it tells me that they like an Indian dress. If she was stereotyping the Chinese by going overboard with stereotypical makeup or wearing a dress that's traditionally considered to have some sort of sacred/spiritual meaning to the Chinese, THEN we'd have a case but she isn't doing that.
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Imagining going to China and seeing somebody dressed up like a pilgrim with a buckle hat or a cowboy and screaming at them for it.
Isnt that also the "thank papa" pose from the streamer H3H3? The guys are doing one of H3H3's poses too
Probably where they got it
I also get upset when people who aren't from Germany/Austria wear Lederhosen and Dirndl at the Oktoberfest.
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Already seen a video on it posted on a Dutch right leaning newsblog, so it is obviously already being used by them for that kind of fuel.
If it wasn't for the third pic, I'd agree the outrage is stupid.
But people are too quick to defend the way white women are allowed to pick and choose parts of other races cultures without recourse. The choosing of the dress was totally fine. The cultural insenstivity that came with it is not.
But people are too quick to defend the way white women are allowed to pick and choose parts of other races cultures without recourse. The choosing of the dress was totally fine. The cultural insenstivity that came with it is not.
What the hell is that pose pic about? Is that a normal prom thing?
Americans are so fucking weird man.
Dont see an issue with the dress either tbh
Americans are so fucking weird man.
Dont see an issue with the dress either tbh
Think it’s from H3H3, top guys are doing the Vape Nation hand symbol.
Ah shit that's what they're doing.
That's hilarious given the context,.
The praying is an h3h3 reference. They're also throwing up the "vape nation" gesture in the photo
I know but combined with the guys doing vape nation Im guessing thats where they got it
Didn't even cover the N word tweets. Probably because he's okay with them.
Holy shit dude! It's the "Namaste" pose!
It's not racist, it's incorrect. The Chinese don't "Namaste"
Better tell the flight attendants on Malaysia Airlines to stop doing it too then
This stuff is ammo for alt-right types
They will dismiss real issues because folks lose their shit over a dress
As long as they aren't calling it new and trendy because a white person wears it.
"What if this was a completely different situation with completely different context"
Because the Qipao is from China. The greeting is Thai/Khmer. The presumption is "this is an Asian thing".
That's like me wearing a lederhosen and saying I'm Danish; if we're going to get close to home.
This is the reason I didn't buy a yakuta in Japan. When would I wear it and not risk that kind of negative attention?
Even considering that if I had bought it, it would have been on the suggestion of my then SOs host mom who sells them for a living, but I don't think the internet would care even if she gifted it and had spent a week teaching me everything there was to know about its use, history, cultural importance and symbolic meanings and if I wore it with impeccable attention to detail and respect.
My defense against the internet mob would just be reduced to a weaker variation of "my Japanese friend said its okay".
It makes me a bit sad, but I think I made the right decision.
Even considering that if I had bought it, it would have been on the suggestion of my then SOs host mom who sells them for a living, but I don't think the internet would care even if she gifted it and had spent a week teaching me everything there was to know about its use, history, cultural importance and symbolic meanings and if I wore it with impeccable attention to detail and respect.
My defense against the internet mob would just be reduced to a weaker variation of "my Japanese friend said its okay".
It makes me a bit sad, but I think I made the right decision.
I don't have any problem with people wearing outfits from different culture, as long as it's not mean spirited.
There are always some assholes who will make a big deal out of it, and the internet amplifies it.
There are always some assholes who will make a big deal out of it, and the internet amplifies it.
That's not really an apt comparison. The Qípáo is not an unusual outfit in China like the cowboy getup is in the west, it's a gown that people wear much like western gowns. You'd look out of place even in the west if you wore a cowboy getup.
If you were to draw comparison, look for something more common. Now what's a common western outfit? The western style suit. And when I went to China I saw people both men and women wear western suits.
You have to understand NEW & TRENDY aren't insults
To these kids anything different from the norm even IF it's centuries old is NEW AND TRENDY
Kids would call the Penny Farthing New & Trendy if it came back in vogue
So tell me why one context might be appropriate and not the other
Can Indians wear Dashiki's or is it a problem only when white folks do it?
Tea is an English invention... I think
From what I've seen Japanese people have no issues with foreigners wearing these at all.
I WAS WRONG... BEHOLD!
Who Invented Tea? The Origin of Tea
A great deal of legend and myth surrounds the story of the origin of tea. One legend says that, in the year 2737 BC, the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung noticed that a green leaf had blown into a bowl of boiling water, colouring the water and creating what became known as tea. From then on the emperor desired nothing but tea to drink.
Tea is first mentioned in Chinese documents some 4,700 years ago. It follows that tea probably originated in China. Today, the teabush grows in different regions of the world, among them India, Sri Lanka, China and Africa. The map of the world illustrates which varieties are grown in which countries.
https://en.otg.de/we-do-more-with-tea/tea-know-how/the-origin-of-tea
And we Indians see it as a matter of pride when white folks/or even other foreigners copy or adapt OUR stuff
Yoga, Curry, the Saree etc
Fuck that guy.
It is like getting outraged at people wearing traditional clothes from other cultures. Hope it blows up back in his face.
It is like getting outraged at people wearing traditional clothes from other cultures. Hope it blows up back in his face.
Used to be pretty popular with European liberals in the nineties.
Bought a yakuta and wore it to the Sumidagawa Hanabi, got a lot of positive remarks. Of course Japanese people are not as woke.
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