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Originally posted by collin
Statements like this make you a part of the problem.
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No, they do not. I'm like the last person on this planet to be racist or offensive towards any culture (Asian especially, since I'm starting to learn Mandarin this October), but I'm simultaneously not obsessed about a word (which, by the way, has its equivalent in Polish and it's absolutely neutral, despite its origin) or so-called 'cultural appropriation', which is the biggest nonsense to me. Why shouldn't she wear a kimono exactly? I wouldn't be pressed if someone from America, for example, wore our national historical outfits, because why? And as we can see in this thread, even a person from Japan is not offended, so I don't understand your point.