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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To answer PP's question on why it's so bad (not quoting that huge chain):

- Transgender isn't about admiring the other gender and dressing like them in homage. It's actually being that gender.

- Admiring an ethnicity doesn't mean you appropriate aspects of the culture. You can admire them without dressing like them.

- Very often things specific to a different ethnicity are frowned upon (rap music, baggy clothes, cornrows) and viewed as low class, "ghetto", used to profile individuals, etc....until a white person deems it acceptable, and then it's okay and appropriate by white people and becomes popular. When those very things should be considered okay regardless of what white people think.

- Often the things white people appropriate are sexualized. Think cornrows on Bo Derek in "10", something that would be unacceptable on a black person is sexy on a (thin, beautiful, heteronormative) white woman.

- Make no mistake, Ariana is doing it as a marketing ploy to capitalize on Kpop success. Same thing with portraying herself as Latina. Latina girls, seeing that she looks like them and has a name like theirs, will be drawn to her and most won't look up her actual ethnicity. So it exposes her to different markets and gets her more fans in a highly unethical way.

- In this same vein, a cis person who portrays themselves as trans *while not actually being trans* in order to gain the benefits is unethical. A male who portrays himself as female not because he's trans, but to gain a benefit, is unethical.

Bottom line, there are many, many, MANY ways to appreciate a culture without appropriating it. If she truly values and admires Kpop, her role should be to promote actual Korean artists, not to try to steal some of the spotlight for herself. [/quote]

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