Cultural appropriation outrage.

The dress is fine.

You'd swear she had 'yellowed up' and wore a lampshade on her head with the level of outrage.

Swanner wrote: »

Why not though. Where are the lines here ? I honestly don’t get the difference between wearing clothes from, and eating food from another culture.

I genuinely have no idea why one is offensive and the other isn’t. Am I missing something obvious ?

Yes, the obvious thing is that this cultural misappropriation nonsense is complete and utter horsesh1t. The history of mankind is a history of sharing, learning, borrowing everything from technologies to food and cuisine, medicines and clothing and hairstyles. It's how we learn from each other and progress.

The idiots who want to turn this concept on its head and weaponise it to use as a stick to beat people with are just malignant half-wits who are best ignored, in much the same way as you'd ignore the provocative slurrings of a drunk...and for similar reasons.

Fourier wrote: »

In my experience this is always an X-American thing, i.e. Chinese-Americans might complain, but people from China don't care (just as we don't care when they wear western clothes). However, as somebody mentioned above, how much of this is really going on in Ireland? I don't think I've ever encountered this in real life, outside of some young people in college, who still don't do it as much as Americans and practically stop on leaving college.

It's usually something done by teens and people in their 20s, in my opinion. Times are changing though. I would have gotten bullied for bringing in my lunch because it was 'different' but now it's trendy or whatever. I don't really care. I tend to stick to certain groups anyway.

Wibbs wrote: »

Just look at this happy Chinese couple enjoying their day out racist culturally appropriating bastards! >-<



Or this apparently friendly waving leader of the Chinese nation,



the western suit and tie appropriating cunt. I say we riot and break out the opium and gunships. There may be feasting on goo.

Yet another reason I don't do Twatter. I'd be banned within 12 hours.

I’ve been banned from Twitter for a week for saying “ while I would use whatever pronoun they want and I truly wish transgender people happiness I find it difficult to ignore biology.

Well, he's getting his 5mins of fame; getting frontpage on imgur or reddit and will be a hashtag handle on twitter until the next righteous cause comes along. In a few days/weeks, this coolie will slide back to obscurity and good-riddance. I'd understand his outrage if she was mocking chinks by wearing the dress but she wasn't. She looks quite tasty.

Omackeral wrote: »

Christ.

You outraged, paddy? Or just outraged on behalf of a billion others?

This sort of crap pisses me off. If you go through the replies, plenty of Chinese people are saying she looks beautiful and they're not offended at all. And yet other people - usually Americans - are saying she doesn't understand the history of the dress and that she would need permission from several different Chinese people before being allowed to wear it. First of all, how do they know she doesn't understand the history of the dress? And as for asking for permission, that's completely ridiculous, although it looks like she had plenty of permission from actual Chinese people. And what, she's supposed to post a picture with a complete history of the dress along with the names of every Chinese person who gave her permission? It's laughable.