I'm so nosy I scrolled all the way to check what this hair argument was.... Why am I not surprised? Yall do realize that hairstyle which is typically associated with one specific race doesn't necessarily mean that said race owns that hairstyle, right? Just because a group of people frequently wears one style, doesn't mean another group can't wear it. That is not culture appropriation as far as my intelligence goes. For example, braids. I don't know the English word for them so I used braids, but I'm talking the one where they make many braids along the scalp and down the hair length. In mostly Western areas (yes I'm talking America) those braids are usually associated with black people, but my grandma, who's well over 80, made them for us when we were kids because her mother and grandmother used to make them. Similarly, dreads (I hope those are the spellings) are seen in my country a lot. I'm Asian. I live in Asia. I have Asian blood. Internet isn't this advance here. But people have worn dreads, those braids, and even more hairstyles and clothes for ages. Way before yall learned to yap. The whole reason I wrote this much is to say "IT'S A HAIRSTYLE WORN WORLDWIDE, AND FOR CENTURIES" just as how "CLOTHES ARE CLOTHES" and that as an Asian with a distinct culture, and I say this on the behalf of literally everyone ik, I love it when people wear our clothes properly. Heck I would even braid their hair on that style if they let me. Literally, no one will mind unless you're being overly disrespectful in some way. My point still stands that just because one group of people frequently wears one style, doesn't mean that another group of people does not. Just because one thing is highlighted by one group, does not mean another group can't do that. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk. If you want to start an argument, be creative.
I'm so nosy I scrolled all the way to check what this hair argument was....
Why am I not surprised?
Yall do realize that hairstyle which is typically associated with one specific race doesn't necessarily mean that said race owns that hairstyle, right? Just because a group of people frequently wears one style, doesn't mean another group can't wear it. That is not culture appropriation as far as my intelligence goes.
For example, braids. I don't know the English word for them so I used braids, but I'm talking the one where they make many braids along the scalp and down the hair length. In mostly Western areas (yes I'm talking America) those braids are usually associated with black people, but my grandma, who's well over 80, made them for us when we were kids because her mother and grandmother used to make them. Similarly, dreads (I hope those are the spellings) are seen in my country a lot. I'm Asian. I live in Asia. I have Asian blood. Internet isn't this advance here. But people have worn dreads, those braids, and even more hairstyles and clothes for ages. Way before yall learned to yap.
The whole reason I wrote this much is to say "IT'S A HAIRSTYLE WORN WORLDWIDE, AND FOR CENTURIES" just as how "CLOTHES ARE CLOTHES" and that as an Asian with a distinct culture, and I say this on the behalf of literally everyone ik, I love it when people wear our clothes properly. Heck I would even braid their hair on that style if they let me. Literally, no one will mind unless you're being overly disrespectful in some way.
My point still stands that just because one group of people frequently wears one style, doesn't mean that another group of people does not. Just because one thing is highlighted by one group, does not mean another group can't do that.
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk. If you want to start an argument, be creative.