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RedbookMagazine believes your child shouldn't dress as Moana for Halloween if they aren't Polynesian
- Thread starter Trojita
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Dressing up as the costume is fine as long as parents don't alter their child's skin-color. This story has been making rounds for days now in mainstream news. It's mostly fabricated outrage that's causing many people to hop on the "everyone is offended by everything!" train. Stuff like this harms the cause more than it helps.
What's the alternative when you can't put your kid in transparent clothing?
The Maui costume could not work in any way, because you cannot do that costume without some sort of coloring underneath the tattoos. Make it transparent really wasn't a viable option there.
What's wrong with just the red top and the shirt?
edit: if you are talking about the Rock character, my suggestion is to sell tattoo sticker s that you put on a regular tee shirt.
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Cultural Appropriation as a broadly-applied rule is where I kinda get off the bus. So many great and wonderful things can be accomplished when we share and respect each other. I remember when there was the Kimono exhibit in Boston where they encouraged visitors of ALL ethnicities and backgrounds to share in the Japan's beautiful culture. It was picketed by Asian-American groups for cultural appropriation and cultural fetishization. Meanwhile, In Japan, the media narrative you'd hear was "Look at these Chinese and Koreans trying to prevent Westerners from enjoying our culture... they must be jealous." The irony is that non-Japanese people appropriated Japanese culture so they can be outraged.
When I wore traditional Japanese clothes in Japan people stopped and THANKED me. 3 different times. Just a few years later we'd have this kind of backlash. In my experiences, a white guy wearing Japanese clothes makes Japanese people upset like a Japanese guy wearing a cowboy hat would make a Texan upset. You think the Texan will be like "Excuse me, but you do not have the right or ability to appreciate my sacred and mystical culture." Hell no, he'll be like "WHOOOO now you're dressing son WHOOOO"lol
When I wore traditional Japanese clothes in Japan people stopped and THANKED me. 3 different times. Just a few years later we'd have this kind of backlash. In my experiences, a white guy wearing Japanese clothes makes Japanese people upset like a Japanese guy wearing a cowboy hat would make a Texan upset. You think the Texan will be like "Excuse me, but you do not have the right or ability to appreciate my sacred and mystical culture." Hell no, he'll be like "WHOOOO now you're dressing son WHOOOO"lol
It's stuff like that that warms my heart and makes me think that maybe there'll be a generation where colour truly doesn't matter. A bit naive, I know, but I have hope when I see that.
This is the kind of shit that frustrates me. I try to explain to my parents that cultural appropriation is a real thing, and they throw articles like this in my face to say it's been taken too far.
The clothes of Moana are just the traditional clothes (as far as I know) of a certain group of people. They're not religiously important or anything.
This type of cultural appropriation is literally just "keep the cultures separate" which goes entirely against the idea of having a multicultural society.
This type of cultural appropriation is literally just "keep the cultures separate" which goes entirely against the idea of having a multicultural society.
Can you please explain this one for me? A honest question. I asked my 9y old kid and she said skin darkeing/painting is part of the costume.
Blackface is ill willed racial imagery. A child darkening her skin to be as similar to her heroine of different skin/culture as possible, is not.
You should be wanting kids - especally white kids - to dress up as Moana. Fuck sake getting them interested in different cultures is half the battle.
Surely it's good that the Polynesian culture get more exposure and recognition? My daughter loves the film (as do I) and if she wanted to dress up as a minority character for Halloween I'd damn well encourage it. It's better than all of the focus being on the likes of Belle, Cinderella or Aurora.
This is my thought, we should want ALL kids to take inspiration and drive from all positive influences in all cultures. I'd also be much happier my daughters taking a cue from Moana than Cinderella personally.
Depends how dark she wants her skin to be. This has been an ongoing topic in the cosplay community.