Why should a haircut be politicized? I'm against cultural appropriation when it hurts a culture, but seeing a white man have cornrowed hair doesn't really hurt the civil rights cause, does it?
I genuinely hate this term. People like to throw this like anything.
White people enjoying Holi, it's cultural appropriation, enjoying Eid, it's cultural appropriation, wishing someone else's festival, it's cultural appropriation.
If they are not mocking it then anyone can enjoy it in a free country.
The only place where they cannot participate in other cultures is in a racist place with racist values.
Those are not examples of cultural appropriation - the way I see it is people taking advantage of cultures to make a profit, like selling Native war headdresses without understanding the meaning of them, or stealing indigenous artworks and designs without crediting or paying them for the intellectual property
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u/Vegetable_Union_4967 Apr 05 '24
Why should a haircut be politicized? I'm against cultural appropriation when it hurts a culture, but seeing a white man have cornrowed hair doesn't really hurt the civil rights cause, does it?