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Comments by "R K." (@DarkAngel2512) on "We got Called-Out for “Appropriation” The Western Woman who became Japanese: Part 2" video.

@Trinity M yes,everyone has their own traditions and reasoning. So why do SJWs try to change those traditions. Its traditional for all races who mix with black people to adopt the hairstyles and language. And same for other cultures. Its traditional to use the term oriental. Yet your other comments are saying it's wrong to do what we've always done and what we were taught to do BY black and asian people.. Can you mot see how illogical that is?
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@mercury_icarus its SJWs who need to live in the real world. Nobody cares about diff cultures have diff names for it. The arrogance that you corrected me calling it canerow. I dont live in America. In UK we call them canerow. That's what Jamaicans call them. But pls continue with your American exceptionalism..
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@willcruz943 speaking as someone from UK this issue didnt exist here until 5 years ago. I grew up with black people and all us girls canerowed our hair and black people would compliment me and ask me to do theirs and would pay me. I used to wear clothing items that Joe I'm very aware are of diff cultures and again noone batted an eyelid. Our clothes shops sold asian jewellery and clothing or rasta clothing. African clothing etc. Noone stopped and thought anything about it atall ever. This has been inserted into weak minds and theyve lapped it up. It's quite sad.
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@jessintokyo My Indian friend is a TaiKWonDo instructor and does the comps. Hes even met the guy who invented it and he didnt seem to mind my friend teaching it and "profting" off it. It's just SJWs being weird like they always do. They're like Mao's Red Guards.
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@thisiscendres nope and nope. I grew up in UK canerowing my hair and doing black peoples' hair for the last 30 years and "profiting" off it. It was less than an issue. You guys need to stop making it one as it's set race relations back 50 years in western countries.
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Same in UK. Older UK head here and I grew up canerowing mine and black peoples' hair for them. This was NEVER an issue and never mentioned atall as being a problem. This isnt a real issue. It's some ceap academia started and now its spread amongst young SJWs and people who dont really mix with many other races. They mean well but growing up with all races they honestly dont bat an eyelid when we assimilate their culture. Same way I dont even think twice when they assimilate ours and I domt even see it as them assimilating "our" culture. It's their culture too. Culture is and has never been bound by race.
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@mercury_icarus not true. Theee are countless black people all over social media complaining about us wearing canerow and this was never an issue before 5 years ago.
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@AiyameXi no its isnt kept at a minimum. Hip hop is one of the most succesful music genres and has spread worldwide and white people are the largest consumers in America. Stop repeating false rubbish.
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@nat3299 so you admit black people and black cultures are diverse. do you acknowledge not all black people think like some black Americans? In UK, JA and Africans they dont give a crap about us copying their hair. That's an American thing.
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@nat3299 give me ten examples of where people have been discriminated in the last 50 years for those hairstyles. Noone has renamed anything. Jamaicans call them canerow and Chiney buns instead of cornrow and Bantu knots. That's a black culture. Not all black cultures are the same. Americans are quite arrogant with this. That needs to stop. And Kim K didnt rename them. She was referring to the two plait style being how boxers wear their hair. She wasnt calling the plait a boxer braid. She meant the style of wearing two was how boxers wear them. She was giving reference. Same as with Bo Derek. Nobody assumes they're actually called Bo Derek braids. But they were dubbed that as a point t of reference for people who dont know their name. You're coming at this all wrong. Noone is renaming anything. And you need to respect diff cultures have diff names for things and stop with the American exceptionalism. Ita extremely arrogant and ignorant of how culture works. And as for dreads those belong to other cultures. Again you're being quite ignorant. If other cultures have diff names for them like how Ameircans call them locs, we dont get mad. That's just what you guys call them. But the anger that AAs project towards those of us who call them dreads is wild. I hope you grow out of this. I know social media is messing you kids up but now you guys are trying to mess adults up and we've had enough. We were doing ok until you guys started all this bs. We've honestly had it to the back teeth
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@WovenOcean5605 all I heard was parrots rhetoric in your comment. If person A over here wears canerow and doesnt stop person B over here wearing it then you have no argeument. Take you issue up with the individual who personally said you couldnt wear your hair that way.
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That's not what it was. This newly coined term "appropriation" just meant to adopt cultures. It wasnt automatically via force. Misappropriation meant "colonial imperialism". Copying cultures is not colonial imperialism. Me copying a black persons' hair does not prevent them from wearing it regardless if another white person tells them they cant. Me profiting off doing other black peoples' hair who have asked me to over the years does not effect other black people. Its exchange. We have helped their culture by buying hip hop music as white people are the largest consumers in America and white dominant countries. People need to stop believing every postmodernist crap on social media. Unless they grew up with black people before social media then they're going to be lacking experience. Growing up since the early 80s, black never cared about us copying their hair. They taught us how to do these styles. Its an open culture as its most culture. If I wanted to mock a black person for whatever reason that still wouldnt mean I cant wear their hairstyles because 1. culture isnt race and 2. those issues are seperate. You can still mock someone AND it have nothing to do with their race. You can black up, or as Americand call it blackface, and that isnt mocking black people because if you are old enough to remember comedy from ten years ago black people were in those sketches. Sick and tired of kids on the internet talking about things they dont understand. Also its nothing to do with majority and minority as a minority can overthrow a majority culture. Other races are not these fragile beings just because they're are less of them in a population. Black people do amazingly well in The West. Their culture has been loved and spread far and wide by our support and if they want everything non-black removed from the culture and for them to segregate and us to stop supporting they can do that but they wont be as successful as they are now playing overseas and hitting the charts etc. Same goes for asians in terms of Kpop and anime and the export of their language
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@mercury_icarus Kim called the ones she wore boxer braids because boxers often wear two braids like that. Same as Bo Derek popularised Fulani braids. And not everyone calls them Bantu knots. In UK and JA we call them Chiney buns. And making small buns can be called small buns. He isnt saying he invented the bun. You realise buns are Greek in origin. So are the Bantu people stealing by calling them Bantu knots? Do you not see how silly this all is?
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@jamesryder8305 no she isnt right. If hip hop is mainstream like you admit then black culture and history is clearly not kept to a minimum. And black culture is more prevalent than most cultures. You have hip hop in other countries with kids growing up emulating it. Kids who love Jamaican and African culture. It is admired and emulated. And there is a dedicated black history month. So to claim it isnt talked about atall is demonstrably not true. By "spoken about in hushed tones" do you mean not spoken about as much as white people? Its a white majority country, love. It's not going to feature as much as white history. Go to Africa or Jamaica and you'll get a diff story. It doesnt matter if I'm from UK. I can learn about what happened 60 years ago same way as you. Through reading. We literally have the same access to this stuff. Of course you wont be taught the full history. You do realise there is a limited amount of time to teach so they have to focus on the most relevant. They cant go through every detail of black history. They dont do it with white history either. What has some people not liking where hip hop comes from got to do with the bs claim the lady above made about "black culture is kept to a minimum". Off topic. Of course some people are racist. What do you want? No racism? That's a fantasy. If that's your goal then you're wasting your time. Be happy a lot of people love black people/culture. Be happy they love it enough to emulate it and stop being racist to them for emulating. And what are you on about? Where did I say I think all Koreans like black people? Of course they dont. You have racists in every race. That's just maths. A lot of black people dont like asians. Wth does that have to do with if black culture is kept to a minimum? And what do those few racists have to do with those who like black people/culture? Even in Korea black culture isnt kept to a minimum. I dont understand this insistence from people who think like you of putting some racists views onto those who arent racist simply because they share the same skin colour. That makes you the racist. Just get back to normal how we were 5 years ago when we all copied each other and didnt discriminate people based on others who happened to share the same race. Because truthfully these days the people coming off most racist are black people. You're not helping your case by putting all people of the same race under one umbrella and discriminating them based on their race. If you dont like asian people copying black culture then dont copy them. Dont eat their food or speak their language or listen to their music. Be consistent. Otherwise leave them the hell alone.
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@polari7658 how can you "whitewash" a cartoon. They're all fictional.
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@nahla8328 same with Korean. Korean evolved from Chinese. Its like 70% Chinese. And they made their own characters but many words are from Chinese. Also Korean and Japanese share many words. Heck, Korea uses many English words. I once saw some idiots on a Facebook page saying Koreans were trying to, cant remember the word made up word they used, make their words more English and basically making out it was offensive and stealing. English is from Latin. Like this whole thing is so dumb it makes my head and heart hurt.
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@kopxpert in school we had culture days. We would cook a dish from a particular country and learn something about that country like a song or how to do henna or eat with chopsticks. Now I know people who consider that literal act racist.
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And people often conflate culture and race. They assume based on someones skin colour that they weren't born into a certain culture. As this point hip hop is so widespread we're all born into the culture to a degree. We're all born with Indian or south-east Asian culture around us. There are black and asian Japanese people. People might accuse them of cultural theft/erasure. It's silly when its an open and shared culture. Speaking of gender roles have you seen Oli London. He's really called their bluff. A Kpop fanatic who had surgery to look asian and calls himself non-binary and trans racial. It puts these SJWs in quite a quandary.
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@tenshi.kurama 😂😂 "toxic appropriation". Halloween costumes? Wow! I dont quite know what to say. Just wow!
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@elizebeths.8880 every human appropriates though.
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@elizebeths.8880 Fbk is great for cats and food videos. Just make sure you get a comment blocker or something and it will be less stressful.
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@nat3299 that's interesting to know the Portuguese call dreads "rasta" as Kpop fans were complaining about asians calling them rasta hair. They arent wrong. It's a religious rasta hairstyle. Thank you for apologising and sorry if I read you wrong. Amongst the other commenters I can be on autopilot defence where they're on the attack or saying things that demonstrably arent true. As an old head it's hard seeing people try to rewrite history or misrepresent the present or what peoples' intentions are. There will be cases where dreads are seen as unprofessional or dirty as in many cases they arent done professionally and are infact dirty. Many people dont get them done properly and just let their hair locs up naturally so its unkempt and they dont wash and treat it properly so it gets gunky and dandruffy. So in many cases it is dirtyness and lack of care. You can look at diff dreads and see which ones are being taken care of and which arent. I used to do dreads so I knew the guys who took care of them and regularly twisted them vs those who looked like utter crap and didnt section them well or start them off well so they couldnt be fixed to look good later on. Some places may have certain hair and fashion policies so as to remain neutral for customers so as not to lose money. It isnt about the company discriminating so much as them wanting a neutral look so they dont lose customers who might not like the look. Companies put money first. Hence why I'm not allowed over the top tattoos or piercings at my work. When you say there is a high chance of people treating you diff if you had them done years ago you have to be talking beyond 40 years ago because I think I only ever heard one case in my life back in the early 90s and I'm pretty sure that was word of mouth so I never knew if that case was accurate. So this is why I always ask for evidence as I feel people keep passing these stories around and they dont seem to base them on any concrete examples. If it happened decades ago it isnt relevant anymore. Its beating a dead horse. In regards to hari being distracting if its distracting at school such as being too big and blocking the board for example then yeah the pupil needs to tie it back. School isnt a fashion show. You go there to learn.
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@Hiforest we dont use the term Anglo-Saxon in England. We call ourselves English. He may have just been talking about where he thinks his generics stem from.
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@lusibeth It came from postmodernism in western academia. Look up The Frankfurt School. It's where all the critical theories came from.
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@Teyisagirl00 Well, that's the culture I was raised around. I grew up in the 80s on hip hop culture and never once did any of the artists get upset about people copying their hair. Now if someone bit their style that was a other matter. But they had all races in their videos with their hair and fashion emulating the culture. Same in UK where I'm from. Black people shared the culture and liked us copying. To me this is fabricated outrage by racists, the brainwashed and woke saviours. And as it's a recent trend I dont intend to give in to these bullies. They can stay getting mad. I'm actually sat here about to go to an afro salon to buy extensions to canerow my hair for Easter. And these people I'm sure will gladly take my money. What the woke dont realise is their taking money out of these peoples' pockets and causing people to resent black people. Its a lose/lose situation. Enjoy your Easter:)
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@bluchismoon you're conflating culture and race in your first paragraph. While cultures can be isolated to particular races you then went on to speak about diff cultures whilst I think you were thinking in your head "race". And while there might be some groups out there who dont like others sharing their culture I have yet to come across one. I dont know of any minorities who had an issue with other races copying them until 2017. Its social media driven. I dont really care for it as it doesnt reflect the reality majority of us grew up with. If Gen Z want to go round discriminating each other and being racist that's on them. Comparing copying to colonial imperialism or subjugation and theft is a reach and thinking in weird absolutes without any nuance or context and thus taking it to its logical conclusion simply copying a black friend's unique mannerism or a dance step they come up with is theft. Woke racists really need to understand the diff between colonial theft and cultural exchange. You're right. You cant go round telling others how they should feel about their cultural norms. Gen Z really need to keep that to themselves and their generation. Better yet those individuals need to keep it to themselves. As they cannot claim its theft when it's been shared time and time again and not to mention all races practiced these styles. To tell them to stop practicing their culture makes those people the racist oppressors. And I couldnt agree more with your last sentence. There was never any ill will towards me when I was hanging out with black people and copying them :)
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@Trinity M the term oriental is an old term but it isnt outdated. And its subjectively offensive like most things. If it wasnt offensive back then then the only reason it can be seen as offensive now is because a small segment keep trying to force others to see it offensive when really that's your issue. We have oriental food shops and oriental medicine shops that are Asian-owned. Orient simply means "The East". There is nothing offensive about it. You're talking about East-Asian. And it isnt about "refusing to hear a "person of colour" ", hilarious you use this term when it sounds so similar to another term that was considered offensive, it's about not having exprienced anyone offended by this until very recently AND that it's a small portion of other races offended. It isnt about white entitlement. It's about sjw entitlement. You guys force your views onto others including others of your own race. We dont think like you. And you cant make us. You are in the minority even amongst minorities. You do you and stop telling others what to find offensive. You realise that's why you think how you do. Because some equally uninformed person told you what to be offended by and you accepted it rather than use reason and evidence.
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@elizebeths.8880 There are all diff ways we assimilate cultures. Food, language, music, dance, mannerisms, fashion, hair etc
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@OrientalPearl there was one guy who used to make Korean bbq at a pub. He was taught by a Korean guy and peoppe got mad and they were also mad he put Asian drinks on the menu that werent Korean so mixing them. As if you dont have pan-Asian restaurants that mix diff asian foods.
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@Giminy "fetishize" "clout" tow buzz words that show me you have picked the western concept of woke culture well. If only that was a culture people would stop appropriating.
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@clairea3328 dreads are rarely discriminated against. I think I've only ever heard it happen once in UK and I'm in my 40s. And you cant blame fashion designers for what some company somewhere does. End of the day theyd hold that rule for all races. My job doesnt allow us to dye our hair mad colours or have tattoos. Just how some places are as they know customers might not like someone with an unconventional look. But truthfully like I said I only heard about it once and that was in the 90s and it was secondhand info so not even sure if it actually happened or not.
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@clairea3328 my point is how many legal cases? Its extremely rare to the point noone ever hears about it. How has it taken me 25 years to hear something like this having spent all that time around black people/culture? And on regards to kids being sent home it happens to white kids too. Infact I've only heard it happen to white kids and that was after a google search. Two white kids to be exact. And it's not a societal stigma atall. How many times have you heard people talk bat about those styles? Not how many people told you others speak that way but how many have you actually heard speak that way? Because from where I'm standing it's people repeating baseless claims. I've never seen anyone talk badly about black hairstyles. You'd be hard pressed to find it. And if you do its likely because they were referring to the dreads being unkempt or the weave being put in badly so nothing to do with the actual style itself. You claim it's so widespread so give me some sort anecdotal stories you personally experienced. Just 5 will do. "And when that designer then says black people are "appropriating" straight hair". Wait! What? What designer? What's their name? Were they saying they as a retaliation to the person accusing them of appropriation? Then they were simply defending themselves. Of course it .makes his case. He used a style mostly worn by own race and vice versa. His accusation was like for like. Black people cant scream discrimaintion over hair when they are the ones being the lost discriminatory over hair. Perhaps we need a law against that too. You cant tell people not to copy each other. The only time it matters is when it comes to art and copyright. Those hairstyles are not from a closed culture and have been practiced for millenia by all races. People are dying in Ukraine and privileged westerners sit here actually getting upset over hair. I will look up The Crown Act but in the meantime if you can give me these widespread examples you've personally experienced that would be great :)
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@clairea3328 extensions arent necessary for school. Styling should be neutral. What do you define as a natural hairstyle as someone claimed that locs are natural when of course they're not. I believe there was ONE case where a child had their hair cut by a teacher. Not by the school. So The Crown Act passed without fanfare? Goes to show there wasnt really an issue then. I always see black women with their natural hair. Not sure where you live but it's common in western media and public life. As for copying black hair many black people dont have straight hair so are copying. So if they take issue with people copying their hair they shouldnt copy either. Although its utterly petty. Humans copy. That's how we function. The history behind perms is irrelevant. It's a bloody hairstyle that hairdressers have been providing for years without issue. Why you want to make it into an issue is beyond me. What has skin bleaching hot to do with other races copying hairstyles? You're all over the place. The beauty standard is not eurocenteic and you can keep saying that til the cows come home. It's simply not true based on evidence. Black people bleach. White people fake tan and her sunbeds. And all races put chemicals in their hair. What is your point? Black people are mot met with hurdle after hurdle. You guys keep saying this and there is little evidence for this. What has a take-over company putting what some people deem not the best choice of ingredients in got to do with discrimination or if people should copy other races? Again,you're all over the place. Why is it not ok to copy traditional hairstyles? They're also our tradition too. For what reason. Traditionally they are worn for the same reasons. I wear them for the exact same reasons as my black friends. If you want those hairstyles normalised even though they have been for years then why are you trying to make them not normalised? Where is the logic in that?.
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I've been saying something similar only that its SJW culture or some of Gen Z culture. Nobody in The West was saying anything about others copying other cultures before. It's a postmodernist nonsense cooked up by acadamia. And it simply went viral on social media because SJWs latched onto it. Millenials and boomers alike dont care about this stuff and neither do many Gen Z. You see them in the comments saying how they're embarrassed of other Gen Z.
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@11mazatl colonial imperialism (colonization is slightly diff) shouldnt apply outside of cultures where people came to such as UK where black people were not subjugated natives and were invited here so misappropriation of their culture shouldnt apply here. And it didnt until 2017 sjws picked up academia nonsense online.
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So now this postmodernist rubbish has infiltrated the older gen in Japan. So sad.
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@Trinity M your comment doesnt even make sense. Anyone who grew up around the music or hanging out with black people grew up with the culture. I grew up with it since the age of four. Not sure why you're associating me with people who dont care about black people. Getting me mixed up with someone else. I dont know what "exist in a bubble outside of us" even means. Or what you mean by "not one of us". I'm def not one of you. The black people I grew up with arent either. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guessing you're Gen Z, grew up on social media or are an American. I've never encountered black people like you until social media and by that time I was fully grown and well into my 30s and spent basically 30 years around black culture and more than half my life around black adults/nightclubs and dating black men. I dont know what weird, extremist culture you come from but it isnt the one the vast, vast majority of black people come from. I hope you get help for whatever happened to you to make you view life in such a way. You're hostile, racist and dont seem to have an understanding of how cultural assimilation works seperate to skin tone. You're very damaged. Good luck with that and whatever social group you move with. None of the black people I've come across think like you so you're random opinion has no bearing on real world interactions. :) .
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90s kid here and I started clubbing mid 90s with black people and they taught me to canerow my hair and I used to canerow, braid and dread their hair and it wasnt a conversation past "your hair looks nice, who did it? Can you do mine, how much do you charge?". This "cULtUraL ApProPrIAtIoN" has only become a thing really 5 years ago. Fed up as now I have to worry when I go out with my hair canerowed. Or when I wear my clothing that has foreign influences.
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@quartzy_jane2153 Robin D'angelo, Ibram X Kendi and Layla Saeed to name a few.
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@16BitSiren 100% this
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@emogirlbellareacts thank you :) have a blessed day
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Did you think that before the internet told you to though?
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@elizebeths.8880 how so what?
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@elizebeths.8880 there's very little diff. You appropriate when you assimilate. It's basically the same thing.
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@elizebeths.8880 I'm not looking up a video that some layman made. Amyone can make a video on YouTube. Fake news. Im going by the etymology of the word. To appropriate means "to make ones' own". I'm not going to give you credit for getting your definitions off Buzzfeed. And you used a fallacy saying it matters if it comes from a famous person. Famous people get things wrong too. And I dont know who that ref you suggested is nor do I care. I care about what the word it means and not what some racist academics have twisted it to mean. Either way copying cultures isnt wrong. We all do it and I've been canerowing mine and black peoples' hair for nearly 3 decades. So SJWs who have made this an issue the last 5 years can get bent.
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@ruinaar2495 one African woman was getting ganged up on on Tik Tok for speaking her Jamaican husbands language. This is when The Left eats itself. What woke black people started has now come back around. Unfortunately its innocent black people feeling the brunt. I hope the ones being gatekeepers get a taste of their own medicine. Especially Kpop fans who love their K dramas and kimchi. I'm waiting for an Asian to give them hell so they know just how racist and exclusionary it feels so they learn to stop this nonsense.
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@lyn3325 nothing wrong with accidentally bowing to westerners. You're part of that culture and like anyone from said culture you're mannerisms are part of you. Ignore postmodernism. It's clearly messing up your thought processes and giving you unnecessary hangups
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@taekooktrash9607 social justice warriors. Basically the fake outrage, woke activist types.
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@WovenOcean5605 in my experience growing up with black people for 30 years and canerowing my own hair and canerowing theirs and being paid for it they never said anything about it. The extent of the convo was "your hair looks nice. Can you do mine? How much do you charge"? To me its def people being racist not liking white and asian people copying them. Ironically black Kpop fans are known for this with many having been doxxed as a result. They're busy "profiting" off asian content yet get mad when asians have a career based on black culture. Height of hypocrisy
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@shy8054 they conflate appropriation with misappropriation.
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@cl3menti74 People from said cultures profit of badly made products aswell though. I know black people who have black hair salons who cant canerow for shit. Someone I know personally. I dont personally know of any examples where someone does canerow but hates black people. I see people make this stuff up all the time but never any evidence for it. Seems like a lot of passed on rhetoric that people picked up off others doing the same. Like when people lied about Jay Park being against black people. A ridiculous claim to say the least. You misunderstand what appropriation is. Appropriation means "to make ones' own". Every human being in existence appropriates. The thing is that term is an extremely new word in the public sphere and it gets used diff by diff people. People should just speak in plain terms instead of people talking past each other with diff definitions. I'm someone who prefers to stick to the etymology and first usage of the word. Not the recently conceived pop culture version. So in plain terms all people copy each other and not everyone imitates as good as the next person regardless of race. That isnt a diss to the race. Idol rappers arent dissing black people anymore than Migos is. All races do piss-poor imitations and profit off them. I rarely see Kpop fans call out the wack black rappers. I also often see Kpop fans conflate pop and r&b with hip hop. I find that more disturbing as they use their race as a means to claim spokesperson for hip hop despite they dont understand anywhere near as much as many Korean rappers.
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@GiggityCrabbityGiggity nothing wrong with blackface. Black comedians and actors were in those shows. I'm going to guess you are young because you can go back just ten years and see comedy with blacked up comedians and black actors in those sketches. Same with asian make up and asian actors in the same sketches. This is all utter lies peddled by SJWs. One only need look at S'Mouse sketches with Beyonce's dad in those sketches. Or Little Britain or Bo Selecta or as far back as The Minstrels show with black actor Scatman Crothers laughing up in the background at the comedians. Sick of the lies. The video evidence is there. And black people get a ton of recognition for their cultural creations/contributions. Another lie to claim otherwise.
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@AiyameXi What is your problem? I was using an example. And you're mad because it's not the "right" example? Even though it completely refuted your point so that you had to admit black culture IS widely consumed by the world and not held back the way you claimed? This is mental illness, you do know that dont you? I'm well aware black culture=/=hip hop. You're talking to someone who grew up for the last 30 years with black people and most my exes are black. Not all black people even like hip hop. But stay being an insufferable twunt who complains about absolutely nothing. Let me guess, you're American arent you? Even other black Americans have had enough of types you like. A blight on the earth who do nothing but destroy race relations. You're the type to be racist to a black person for not spitting the "right" narrative. Get a life, love. muting
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@cottoncandykawaii2673 same as when they lump all white cultures under one.
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@loriannrichardson7644 nope. Aiyamexi is NOT correct in claiming 'respect for black culture is kept to a minimum'. That's a complete and utter lie as shown by how popular black culture is. Nobody with a working brain takes you guys seriously. And what are you on about in regards to stealing? We weren't talking about inventions or works of art. We were talking about cultural practices like hip hop and hairstyles. This isnt the same thing. You cannot steal open and voluntarily shared culture. It doesnt matter how many times you kids keep repeating this trying to gaslight adults. We were there. We have lived sharing the culture for years. How in the actual f**k do you think you can come along after 50 years of hip hop and start saying it's being stolen or credit isnt being given? To whom? Do you realise even amongst hip hop heads its contested who started hip hop. You've got Hollywood (I realise I have to point out he is a dj as you likely never heard of him) contesting Herc being the creator. You are talking to a 40 year old hip hop head who has spent most her life growing up with black people part of hip pop culture and black hair culture. Been wearing my hair in canerow since the 90s and doing black peoples' hair since the 90s. The conversations of "stealing" didnt exist ATALL. You kids need to stop trying to rewrite history, sit down and listen to how things actually are. Not how your sjw fantasies would like them to be.
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@zootastic698 woke saviours are embarrassing. Most black people find them cringeworthy. Its infantilising. How fragile do they view black people that they think they would be offended by someone copying them.
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@vanpallandt5799 what's a Taff?
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@vanpallandt5799 ahh.
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@shmodzilla yep. The Far Left are the bigots that just keep on giving.
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@richardmangelmann4975 that's terrible. They were the ones being racist. She does know she can sue the organizers for discrimination
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@nemumami thats because your normal. The people who have issue with it are fringe extremists. They treat it like a religion with original sin you're born into because of being a diff race. Its ridiculous.
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@row9112 guns arent allowed although you may be allowed them at a shooting range. We have a much lower death per capita due to guns being banned.
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@minyaw1234 Americans dont either though. I grew up on hip hop and they always accepted other races. Yes, you had some racism but latinoes and blacks grew up alongside each other. You have all races in DMC (hip hop deejay comp) and BC One (breaking/breakdancing comp). CA is a fringe thing in America. You always have latinoes in all the old hip hop movies and all races in the music videos doing the same things. The "trying to be black" slur was rare. I think it was when Em came out that there was some fuss made because it was rare to see white emcees aside from latinoes and Beastie Boyz.
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@ILoveTokioHotel. other races wear braids as a protective style. That's the whole point. It isnt bad for other peoples' hair. It protects it the same way. And how is it relevant if black American slaves were the first in America to rock a particular style of braid. Its conpwlrely irrelavant. They werent the first to rock braids. Nobody knows who was. The earliest depiction we have were the Greeks. We also copy buns and pony tails from the Greeks. Should black people stop wearing them or stop being so damn racist and petty..
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@sakuraknight1508 "falsely mimic"??? What does that mean? And many Japanese people like weaboos. Its complimentary. It's only the over the top ones who are a bit embarrassing. Be grateful people like your culture so much they want to copy it
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@Sonnenanbeterin1991 but that's the thing, isnt it. Why would someone wear something of another culture if they thought it was funny? Also people make fun of diff aspects of their own culture and should be able to do that equally with other cultures/races because you dont have to like the whole culture. I love Jamaican culture but I can simultaneously make fun of parts of it because it isnt making fun of people for their race and I'm under no obligation to like all of their culture same as I dont like all of mine. I love aspects of Korea/Korean but I cannot wrap my head around their general fashion styles. I find them unfashionable and frumpy and irritating. Its something I'll likely never get used to as I grew up with that style being deemed unfashionable in my own culture. It doesnt mean I'm racist. It doesnt mean Jay Park was racist for hating Korea's food and culture when he first moved there.
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@unlimon6382 but Britain also ended slavery.
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@bw1513 appropriation is usually always done for positive reasons. The whole "appropriation vs appreciation" misunderstand the term. Appropriation just means to "make ones own". Misappropriation would be if it's done without permission but then you cant misappropriated culture unless it's a very small culture where all members deny you access. It doesnt apply on a wider scale where many will have shared that culture.
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@AliceinJapanaland that's the point. Many diff cultures came up with things independently. Like hairstyles. People prob realised the way they braided baskets could be applied to hair.
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@AliceinJapanaland calling it boxer braids isnt claiming they created them though. KK called that because boxers wear them that specific way.
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@GiggityCrabbityGiggity they dont teach history by race though. They teach history in general. They dont call it white history in school. There were black and Indian soldiers who fought in World War II. Do they need to highlight race to make you feel better? Also in a white majority country you will autoamtically be taught history that involves more white people. Just as White Yaardy grew up being taught "black" history in Jamaica.
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@GiggityCrabbityGiggity you havent been victimised. YOU havent. How have YOU been victimised?
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@jeffbezos8233 we dont care how you feel. Most black people are fine with it. SJWs opinions are irrelevant.
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@jeffbezos8233 how it effects you? Do you know how it effects us taking the culture away from us who have practised it most their life, longer than some black people? You have now become the oppressor. Well done.
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Language is culture.
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