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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To me, one can dress up as an actual person - Geronimo or Obama or RBG or Trump or Jose Andres or Miguel from Coco. But, one can not dress up like a generic category of people - Native American, White Person, Black Person, Spanish Person, Gay Person - because to do that is invoking stereotypes and other generalizations. [/quote]

And if you're dressing up as actual person, you don't need to pick things they had no choice over - pick things that they defined about themselves. You don't need to paint your skin black to dress up as Obama or craft a "Jewish nose" to dress up as RBG. Much better to pick something like a Nobel medal and a presidential seal for Obama, and a fancy collar with judicial robes for RBG.[/quote]
Yep...that's pretty much all you need to know summarized in 2 posts. But, do whatever you want and deal with the fall out if you're really starving for attention.[/quote]

The only thing I'd add is that you can't dress as an actual character, if that character is a racist stereotype.  Apu from the Simpsons, and Tiger Lily from Peter Pan are examples of that.  [/quote]

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