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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wear anything you want, any time you want, regardless of your spouse’s ethnicity. Cultural appropriation is a myth.[/quote]

I agree with you that people should be able to wear whatever they want. But in our messed up world, people will judge you for it, even though that’s dumb.

Years ago I had a beautiful red dress with a flower pattern on it and a mandarin collar. I wore it because it was pretty and got lots of compliments. Two decades later when someone saw an old photo of me in it they commented that I “couldn’t get away with that today” because apparently that was “cultural appropriation.” The world has gone totally mad.[/quote]

Your friend was right, if you wore a cheongsam style dress to a cocktail party as a white woman it would certainly raise eyebrows in SOME circles.[/quote]

But WHY? I wasn’t wearing it as a costume. I just thought it was a flattering style on me. Why would it be offensive?[/quote]

Do you understand the cultural significance of the cheongsam dress?

The fact that all you care about was “it’s flattering” is the problem. That dress has major cultural significance and you don’t even understand what that is. 
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Pp who posted the YouTube video here with an honest question.

What is the major cultural significance that would make it inappropriate for the other poster to wear the dress?  Admittedly, I know relatively little about China and its culture, which is one of the reasons I like to watch YouTube videos about it and other places around the world.  The impression I got from that video is that the dress has no specific significance and that Chinese people are fine with Westerners wearing it, especially if it’s flattering.  Maybe the YouTuber didn’t fully understand the situation, [b]but if there is a significance to the dress, I’d appreciate learning about it to add to my general knowledge[/b]. [/quote]

This is a big part of the problem. It is not on POC to educate you. You are fully capable of googling it.

White people doing things that are offensive, then playing innocent and going “please educate me!” isn’t acceptable. [/quote]

This is just a lazy way to hide because you are neither Chinese nor able to explain it in all likelihood.  "It's not my joooooob to educate you"  It is.  I spend a lot of time and energy doing just that for anyone that asks me about *my* culture, butI sure can't do it about all.  [/quote]

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