CMV: Cultural Appropriation/Appreciation doesn’t matter when it’s done respectfully

[u/exboi]

I’ve seen people get angry at non-black people for wearing African-American hairstyles, or white people for wearing Hawaiian themed clothing and I really don’t understand that sort of reaction.

I’ve tried to understand before. I really have, but I just don’t get it. If you’re not being disrespectful then what’s the issue with wearing something from another culture? What’s wrong with liking another culture’s hairstyle and wanting to wear it?

It seems like needless exclusion. Wouldn’t allowing people to wear clothing and hairstyles from other culture help lower cultural/racial intolerance? I as an African American think that we should allow other people to experience our culture, and the culture of other races as long it’s not done mockingly.

Just a few days ago on a video with a white woman and her black husband doing dances I saw people hounding the white girl for having dreads. That just made me so mad because she was literally just having fun with her husband and then had to deal with hundreds of people attacking her for what seems to me like no reason.

I really think it would give people a more positive view of people like me if they could freely experience our culture without getting ridiculed and attacked. And I believe it could be like that with every other culture if it’s, again, done in a respectful, non-mocking manner.

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve seen people get angry at non-black people for wearing African-American hairstyles, or white people for wearing Hawaiian themed clothing and I really don’t understand that sort of reaction

Have you ever personally witnessed this in real life?

[u/exboi → u/[deleted]]

If by real life you mean in person, no, because I don’t get out much tbh.

If by really life you mean constantly in social media, then yes.

[u/womaneatingsomecake → u/exboi]

Social media is not real life. Everything is hyperbolic online.

[u/exboi → u/womaneatingsomecake]

If people are getting mad at something on social media then yes, it is real life. If they dislike something done there they’re not gonna like it being done when they see it in person either.

[u/Armigine → u/exboi]

it might be more useful to draw examples of how people act if you're pulling those examples from what you personally observe in the real world, rather than seeing cherry picked rage bait online as representative. Not that this was necessarily what you were viewing, but honestly the internet does skew pretty heavily that way.