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Originally posted by Hot & Bothered
I agree that it's not only smart to embrace certain aspects of whatever culture that you find appealing, it's necessary if you want to be a well-rounded person.
However, it gets hairy once an ethnic person displays cultural traits that have a negative connotation about them, and a white person goes and displays those same traits, but they don't suffer the same consequences which include being pre-judged, ostracized, and not hired.
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Yeah, I think it's tricky on that too, which stems from a lot of stereotypes. It's not easy for the brush it off for those who's not foward thinking or those growing up being taught to think certain ways because stereotypes still exist in every culture, it's kind of a common thing for people everywhere to assume certain things, sadly.
I don't know if my logic sounds funny but how about we think on the positive side, it's like, if somehow flare pants are brought back in the future and everyone started wearing them again, those wearing them before it was trendy who got judged would be pretty mad too, but now it's everywhere it's cool again and they won't judged for wearing them anymore. Why things like "black people getting judged before while whites don't" happen is because right now, black culture is being the epitome of "cool & hip" , it's only seem "cool" for others to adapt to it because those people are new to it, it's not something they're used to doing or seeing.
It is unfair for those who somehow put on something and being treated differently than those who have been rocking it all the time, which is why all those movements about presentation of POC in the media that's happening is a good thing. If people get to see black people in the media who originally made something "cool" first, they won't mistook it on the undeserving ones & it won't be only "cool" when others did it. Kinda like that "whip nae nae" thing, everyone knows it's a dance move from black culture thanks to that song being viral instead of it being another "Miley twerking" situation. Sometimes it doesn't matter which individual invented something, as long as their culture is credited for it, simple as that.
We just happen to live in a time where the presentation of diversity & originality is still "in the work" so it's not always fair when it comes to certain things but we can always look on the bright side.
