Racially insensitive halloween costume?
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Anonymous
It is not? Think it is disrespectful because it's kind of like stereotyping a minority group. If whites were a minority and were not on the top of the food chain globally, wearing a cowboy costume might also seem disrespectful. |
Anonymous
| Cowboy is a profession. Like dressing up as a firefighter or farmer or cop. |
Anonymous
A geisha is a profession, too. And it's not a prostitute like a lot of people may think. |
Anonymous
| I have a kimono that a colleague sent me for my DD (I work for a Japanese company). Can't wait to put her in it. I don't think it's offensive at all. If I saw a kid in a costume from my culture, I'd actually be pretty impressed. |
Anonymous
I know, right. It was so much fun and so much easier when you could demean and marginize other cuter and races for your own amusement. Now we actually have to think before we act, dang PC mind police. |
Anonymous
Yes. It's cultural appropriation. "And for Halloween, I'm dressing up as a stereotype of people from your country/culture!" |
Anonymous
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Sorry Halloween is yet another USA Holiday that offends people.
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Anonymous
My friends in Wyoming and Arizona and Texas would beg to differ. |
Anonymous
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It's Halloween. If that's the most offensive thing you see on Halloween, you need to get out more.
OP, I think it's fine as long as you don't put her in make-up to make her look more Asian. |
Anonymous
| So my Highland Lass costume was culturally insensitive? My neighbor's Leiderhosen as a halloween costume was culturally insensitive? What if it was a Highland Lass Zombie? |
Anonymous
| Is it insensitive to dress a white child in full African garb or as an African tribesman? If you answer yes, then don't dress up your child like an Asian, American Indiana, etc. you are making a mockery. |
Anonymous
Shorter PP: it's ok to be offensive, if other people are being more offensive. |
Anonymous
Do you have a connection with Scottish culture, on days that are not Halloween? Then you can wear a Highland Lass costume. Does your neighbor have a connection with German culture, on days that are not Halloween? Then your neighbor can wear Lederhosen as a costume. See how that works? |
Anonymous
No that's not how it works. People wear Eddie Murphy costumes as Akeem with the tam and vest. Ever see his movie Coming to America? How many guys have worn Braveheart? Should those with Scotts ancestors tell their friends of Asian or AA descent they can't go as part of the Braveheart group? |
Anonymous
| They should. |