I'm Indian American, and I love it when I see people wear Indian clothing, regardless of their race. Saris are so beautiful, and they should be shared with everyone. In general, I feel happy when any non-Indian embraces part of my culture.
As a mexican I can tell you everyone here loved when a picture of Mario wearing s poncho and sombrero was announced, but for some reason Americans thought they should tell Nintendo how we are offended by something we love, seeing our culture well represented.
Same with the movie Coco, that movie represents or culture better than some mexican animated movies that are garbage.
My school had a Japanese program. There was a wide range of ethnicities in the class, including some Japanese students, but the largest demographic was white. It was a full year, and students earned Japanese language credits, material arts credits (architecture, wood working, metal working, fiber arts, and ceramics and a few others depending on the specific student projects), and Japanese studies credits.
The lead professor was a woman from Japan who had immigrated to the US. She had been formally trained in a wide range of Japanese cultural art forms: flower arrangement, calligraphy, tea ceremony, etc.
The program's capstone project was to build a traditional Japanese tea house, (see the architecture, wood working, metal working, and ceramics credits above) and host a Japanese Ambassador for a formal tea ceremony (cultural studies and language).
This group of students worked incredibly hard. They finished their project and the ceremony was beautiful.
Not too long after, white students who weren't part of the program vandalized the tea house with graffiti: words like "Racist" and "Cultural Appropriation" were spray painted on the walls and the inside was trashed.
A lot of the students in the program were pissed, but the worst part was how sad it made their professor. She had been so proud of her students and was looking forward to hosting more events.
lady_laughs_too_much on January 14th, 2021 at 23:34 UTC »
I'm Indian American, and I love it when I see people wear Indian clothing, regardless of their race. Saris are so beautiful, and they should be shared with everyone. In general, I feel happy when any non-Indian embraces part of my culture.
Dingo_Canis on January 15th, 2021 at 00:39 UTC »
As a mexican I can tell you everyone here loved when a picture of Mario wearing s poncho and sombrero was announced, but for some reason Americans thought they should tell Nintendo how we are offended by something we love, seeing our culture well represented.
Same with the movie Coco, that movie represents or culture better than some mexican animated movies that are garbage.
TeaDidikai on January 15th, 2021 at 01:26 UTC »
My school had a Japanese program. There was a wide range of ethnicities in the class, including some Japanese students, but the largest demographic was white. It was a full year, and students earned Japanese language credits, material arts credits (architecture, wood working, metal working, fiber arts, and ceramics and a few others depending on the specific student projects), and Japanese studies credits.
The lead professor was a woman from Japan who had immigrated to the US. She had been formally trained in a wide range of Japanese cultural art forms: flower arrangement, calligraphy, tea ceremony, etc.
The program's capstone project was to build a traditional Japanese tea house, (see the architecture, wood working, metal working, and ceramics credits above) and host a Japanese Ambassador for a formal tea ceremony (cultural studies and language).
This group of students worked incredibly hard. They finished their project and the ceremony was beautiful.
Not too long after, white students who weren't part of the program vandalized the tea house with graffiti: words like "Racist" and "Cultural Appropriation" were spray painted on the walls and the inside was trashed.
A lot of the students in the program were pissed, but the worst part was how sad it made their professor. She had been so proud of her students and was looking forward to hosting more events.