Ugh, he shouldn't have apologised or deleted it. It's a costume.
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Originally posted by Grown K
All of this
I cant wait until next halloween so I can dress up as a kabuki performing geisha and offend Japanese people who wont even care cuz it aint that serious
he sounds so dumb because he obviously knew that people would criticise him for it but he posted it anyway claiming it wasn't appropriation like that would calm people down.
I don't know if my opinion counts but I'm Native American, American Indian, Mistaken Indian First American Person who travels to my forefathers reservation at least once a year and I see nothing wrong with this. I'm more offended that people don't think you can wear whatever the **** you want.
It would be offensive if he were wearing a tan leather vest while holding a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon in each hand asking for donations while yelling about the white man
I cant wait until next halloween so I can dress up as a kabuki performing geisha and offend Japanese people who wont even care cuz it aint that serious
Japanese ppl even said they love it when people wear kimonos and all that
This generation of ppl is so embarrassing.
It's sad he had to apologize for something so harmless.
I don't know if my opinion counts but I'm Native American, American Indian, Mistaken Indian First American Person who travels to my forefathers reservation at least once a year and I see nothing wrong with this. I'm more offended that people don't think you can wear whatever the **** you want.
It would be offensive if he were wearing a tan leather vest while holding a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon in each hand asking for donations while yelling about the white man
Thank you
It would be different if he made fun of it and acted with no respect towards native american culture but it was just a costume.
Completely harmless
just because 1 japanese person or 1 native american thinks its ok for others to use their culture as a halloween costume doesn't mean every single person belonging to that culture does too.
there are tons of black people that think its ok for their white friends to call them the N word for some reason, that doesn't make it right.
I don't know if my opinion counts but I'm Native American, American Indian, Mistaken Indian First American Person who travels to my forefathers reservation at least once a year and I see nothing wrong with this. I'm more offended that people don't think you can wear whatever the **** you want.
It would be offensive if he were wearing a tan leather vest while holding a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon in each hand asking for donations while yelling about the white man
I'm just offended that he thought it was worth posting.
I think white people should just stay away from Native American stuff on the whole. Like I'd research my costume before I stuck on a headdress and was like "Yass" - because it just looks dumb, period.
I don't know if my opinion counts but I'm Native American, American Indian, Mistaken Indian First American Person who travels to my forefathers reservation at least once a year and I see nothing wrong with this. I'm more offended that people don't think you can wear whatever the **** you want.
It would be offensive if he were wearing a tan leather vest while holding a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon in each hand asking for donations while yelling about the white man
If you find something offensive, and it doesn't personally hurt you, like physically, shut up about it. The world (western culture/American culture??) is becoming too cry baby. Never in recent history were people so rigid about holding on to silly things like dress and hairstyle by the claim that their race/gender/group had exclusive ownership of such.
You have one damn life. Don't try to stop me from having braids or cornrows and I won't spend a second telling you what to do. Aside from the one second telling you to not tell me what to do.
But why are people mad he apologised...
ATRL, please read a history book on Native Americans.
Also, please read a sociology book on cultural appropriation.
Japanese ppl even said they love it when people wear kimonos and all that
This generation of ppl is so embarrassing.
It's sad he had to apologize for something so harmless.
Right?
The japanese student association at my university gave us kimonos to wear while we were volunteering at the japanese culture festival in Novi, Michigan and some of us didnt wear them (because of cultural appropriation) and the japanese people at the damn festival got mad at us for disrespecting their culture for not wearing the kimonos even though we thought we were doing the right thing by refusing. It was in that moment that i realized two things. Cultural appropriation is ******** and that geishas, from far away, look like ghosts