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Can we talk about how that was the perfect cross-cultural example? I was like "oh this sounds so pleasant, how is it-" then Pumped Up Kicks came on and i was like "oh. Oh yeah okay."
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guys please. please.
DO NOT. upload/reblog/post photos of shackled, abused or dead Indigenous Australians. DO NOT. post photos of sad children in mid 20th century missions/concentration camps. DO NOT. upload images of Indigenous people who you know are deceased. THIS IS REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT. PLEASE READ ON!!!
if you must post it. and i mean like IF YOU ABSOLUTELY 110% MUST…
PLEASE write a warning BEFORE the photo appears. now i mean like.. avoid it at all costs honestly.. please really really try hard not to post this stuff even if you think youre helping or bringing awareness to the way australia treats Indigenous people. you’re breaking tradition and walking all over the culture of those you’re trying to help. but in all seriousness you’re on tumblr, it is NOT MANDATORY FOR YOU TO POST THAT PHOTO, so really there is no situation where you ABSOLUTELY need to post it.
you know how when you’re tuning into a show that may show deceased Indigenous people, there’s a warning beforehand?? something like “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that there may be images and recordings of people that are now deceased” or something similar??
yeah its because its culture. most Indigenous groups will have a mourning period after someone dies, it can range from months to years to decades or more, and its a custom to not say the persons name or view images, video or audio of that person. AT ALL.
please understand this!!!!
i know you’re trying to help/bring awareness, i know, deep down you did not mean it. but please right your wrongs the best you can here. delete pics you’ve reblogged/posts if you know they’re there on your blog. delete them if you come across them later on. write an apology post. put a warning on your blog that your blog may contain those images and make it very visible. make sure people understand what they are about to see!
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probably my favourite thing is seeing people estranged or otherwise disconnected from their culture, start using their language in their everyday life, start incorporating their culture in whatever small way they can, piece at a time
even if u dont use the words quite right or if ur dress isnt the same or whatever, fuck those who would judge u for it
take ur culture back, i am so proud of u for trying especially when most of us get shit from both the dominant culture and our own culture for not quite fitting in
keep at it, dont get discouraged, u deserve to be and feel a part of ur culture, u deserve to express that part of u in any way that feels right, in any way u can.
Decolonize at all costs
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It always strikes me as strange when whites say to black people “you wouldn’t be in america if it wasn’t for us!!!” partially because they try to make the enslavement of millions of people a good thing but because they assume that african people hadn’t already been to america before europeans kidnapped them. We were already there before columbus. We were trading with these people. We had relationships with these people lol. We were there but just you know, didn’t kill a large portion the indigenous people and destroy their cultures lol.
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Proof? Sources? Citations?
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Whites are so annoying about you go google some shit but since you are obviously incapable of doing anything yourself as you’ve all proved time and time again i’ll give you a link.
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No, I do not speak ‘Indian.’
No, I do not smell like curry.
No, I do not use skin lightening cream.
No, I am not “pretty for an Indian girl.”
and no, I don’t approve of my culture and my gods being used as a part of your aesthetic.
#ReclaimTheBindi
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Posting pictures of me and my cousins in cultural desi garb from this past winter at my cousin’s wedding. I don’t wear bindis as I am Muslim but I wanted to join the movement and message of reclaiming the bindi, as our cultures as South Asian & Arab peoples have been stolen for entertainment and profit. I used to feel very ashamed and insecure to wear shalwarkameez as a child, because no one else wore them in my life growing up. Now, I am happier than ever to embrace my cultural identity and clothing. Our cultures are not costumes, and we will take back what is rightfully ours.
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- there are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world and the vast majority of them are not Arab
- carpets and horses are “Arabian,” people are not
- people are not “Arabic” either, Arabic is a language
- no part of Africa is or ever has been part of the “Arab world.” even people in parts of Africa colonised by Arabs are indigenous Africans
- "Allaah" is not "the Muslim god"— it’s literally just the Arabic word for "God." non-Muslim Arabic speakers use it too
- there are at least 30 “home” dialects of Arabic across Western Asia and North Africa and many of them are mutually unintelligible
- "Middle Eastern" =/= Arab, there are over twenty ethnic groups native to Western Asia and Arab is only one of them
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Found from various places online:
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
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also an addendum to the hunger games slide, when they put out a casting call for the role of Katniss, they specifically asked for only caucasian actors to audition, which left out any possibility for any amazing PoC actors to have been discovered.
i hope this was informational and i didnt leave anything major out. if anything is wrong or needs to be updated, message me and i’l fix any fallacies!
#yes#black face#white face#ugh#racism#racist#the hunger games#signal boost#hunger games#thg#suzanne collins#favorites#favorite#omfg#i love this#beautiful#graphs#culture#black people#white people#white privilege#privilege#whitewashing#learn something#teach yourself#education#reblog forever#forever reblog
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What is cultural appropriation, and how to avoid it
I think I’m going to make that previous post into a post that can be reblogged. Again, this is just one person’s opinion about cultural appropriation! Don’t take my words as absolute truth. Ask different people what they think and read different stories.
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What is cultural appropriation?
The phrase means literally, “one culture taking parts from another culture”, for example, the idea of pizza spreading from Italian immigrants to become a food that people call “American”. But, it’s not as simple as that.
One reason cultural appropriation can be bad, is that sometimes, it has the power to make people stereotype the original culture, or, make them see a version of it that is mostly invented by people who are not from that culture, and, not actually true. It can cause people to see the other culture as “strange” and “exotic”, because, they only see the other culture through the eyes of the people from their own culture. This usually happens when a very powerful culture takes things from a less powerful culture, and stereotypes them or creates their own idea about them, that erases people’s idea of the original culture.
Another reason it can be bad, is that rituals and history that have a strong meaning to the original culture, can be treated by outsiders as “just for fun”. Then, the ritual or history is treated in a way that is disrespectful and offensive, to someone who has it as a very deep part of their culture.
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How to avoid cultural appropriation?
Cultural appropriation damages cultures when a dominant culture takes things from another culture without understanding them, or uses them in ways that are not how they were originally, and replaces the dominant culture’s idea of what the other culture is like. To avoid this:
- Make sure that when you study other cultures, you are careful to study from original sources, from people in that culture. Don’t study by using writing about that culture that is written by outsiders. Often, it is biased and racist.
- Make sure that when you study other cultures, you take time to learn a lot of details about the culture and why things are done the way that they are. Don’t learn one thing or a few things, and decide that you “know about the culture”. Cultures are very big and complicated. If you think a small study can tell you everything there is to know about that culture, you are treating that culture like a shallow thing. If you realise that even different areas of the United States, have their own cultures, languages, dialects, food, and inside those areas, different ethnic groups also have their own cultures (that might or might not be the same as the ones in the country that group first comes from)… then, you realise, a whole country can’t be understood by learning a few cultural rituals.
- Remember that the things you learn about other cultures from TV, school, etc. are usually the stereotypes. When you start to learn about a culture seriously, ignore the things that you “think you know”, and learn directly from that culture.
- If you want to do something from another culture, learn about what it means in that culture, and find out if there might be any reason why it would be disrespectful for you to do it. It’s not automatically disrespectful for to do something from another culture, but, it’s important to learn whether there is an issue.
- Just because you learn about a culture, don’t act like an expert on it. Always listen to people from that culture if they say that you have it wrong.
- Don’t treat parts of other people’s cultures as “exotic” or “so mysterious!” Remember, they are normal to those people. Don’t make them seem like strange beings.
- Don’t assume that just because someone is from a culture that you are studying, they want to hear all about how fascinating it is to you. Imagine that someone comes up to you and says, “oh, you’re American! I love hamburgers, too! Have you ever been in a movie?” It’s really embarrassing and feels weird and insulting, right? You think, “America is more complicated than that… and, just because I’m American, doesn’t mean I like stereotyped American things”, right? People from other cultures feel like that too. Treat them like every other person.
- Again: this is the important thing! Remember that cultures are more complicated than you think they are! North American food is not just “hamburgers”… and, food of other cultures is not just “sushi” or “curry” or “rice”. Try to avoid saying things like “I like Japanese food”. Do you know how many different things that is? Instead, say the types of food you like, like, “I like onigiri and curry udon”. (So do I （´・ω・｀）)
In the end, treat other cultures like you would want people to treat yours. You don’t have to think “I never can do anything involved with this culture”, but be very careful thinking you know about a culture because you learned a few things. Be respectful and humble, and always willing to learn. Don’t jump in with your ideas, listen more than you speak. Always let the person from that culture speak first.
And if someone says, “those clothes/that word/that kind of food has an important meaning, you can’t just use it for fun”… then, listen and respect that.
This way, you can enjoy learning and moving beyond just the ideas in your own culture, without causing harm! I hope this helps （´・ω・｀）
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Dear British Museum, Musée du Louvre, and Pergamon Museum, please return my heritage. Berlin, Germany 2013
Photo: Zeidon Alkinani
Not to mention The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Natural History, etc.
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By expressing her desire for a black sound, then turning up with this mess, [Miley Cyrus] is playing into the stereotype that this is all black people are. To her, and anyone else who’s frame of reference does not extend beyond her, this is what it means to be black.
It is reductive and racist to present one subset of black culture as indicative as the whole, especially when there is a purposeful choice to choose the specific subset of culture that plays into existing white supremacist narratives about the stereotype of what it means to be black. Notice for instance, that Miley did not say “I want a black sound” and then head for the Duke Ellington or Louis Armstrong, or remake herself in the image of Janelle Monae and dabble in Afrofuturism. Nope. Instead she headed straight for the “urban” music, because that is, apparently, the entirety of black culture, and it represents all black people everywhere, regardless of individual experience.
I’ve been thinking about Miley Cyrus’ performance a lot (in addition to everything to do with “We Can’t Stop” and this phase in her image), but not for the reasons a lot of media seems to be today. I don’t give a shit about what her dad thinks, and her being unabashedly sexual on stage is fine. For me, it’s that the way she goes about it continues to indicate that she has such a one-dimensional perception of black American culture (even just black American pop culture) that it makes me feel increasingly nasty.
I don’t hate her; I’m just really ready for her to get a clue or — more likely at this point — get bored and move on.
Sigh, sigh, sigh.
Source: groupthink.jezebel.com
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The bigger issue with Miley Cyrus is her complete obliviousness to the differences in public reaction when it comes to herself versus black people. When Miley Cyrus plays at ratchet, we get three reactions: fangirls/fangays spooing all over themselves telling the internet how much they love her, non-fans giving deep eyerolls and moving on to the next, and middle-aged white people making vague statements about how they’re “concerned” about her state of mind. The reaction she does not get is that if she were shot by a neighborhood watchman, then she deserved it because she flips the bird and does drugs and glamorizes hoodrat behavior.
That’s my problem. My problem is black kids like Trayvon Martin play at being ratchet everyday and the rest of America looks at them like they’re all budding criminals. The defense in that case put Trayvon Martin’s character on trial, by wanting us to infer that he was headed down the wrong path to prison anyway. Because of a few Myspace photos and a toxicology report, we should be glad we got that thug off the streets. They turned him into a thug for doing the exact same things that Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber do, the exact same things that millions of little white kids do in their gated communities, driving around in Daddy’s SUV listening to old-school NWA and rolling spliffs and bragging about it on social media.
That is what white privilege looks like. If you are a white apologist who continuously doubts that white privilege exists, ask yourself if Miley Cyrus or any other 20-year-old white girl would be put on trial posthumously if someone shot her for walking around in a hoodie. That is the definition of white privilege.
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Pocahontas was harshly criticized by Chief Roy Crazy Horse as historically inaccurate and offensive for glossing over more negative treatment of Pocahontas and her tribe by the English. He claims that Roy Disney refused the tribe’s offers to help create a more culturally and historically accurate film.
You can read his entire statement on the subject, which includes the factual story of Matoka, or “Pocahontas" as she was nicknamed, here, on the official website of the Powhatan Renape Nation.
Source: powhatan.org
#history#Matoka#Matoaka#chief roy crazy horse#pocahontas#roy disney#wow#disney#assholes#culture#cultural appropriation#disgusting#no#signal boost#everyone needs to know#animation#movies#films#english#england#american#americans#native american#powhatan renape nation#powhatan#offensive#yes#i love this#i hate this#accuracy
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Many trans girls, including me, have a habit of romanticizing the cisgender experience. A month or two into my transition, I told my girlfriend that I couldn’t wait until I could look in the mirror and see a pretty girl staring back at me. “You realize that’s never going to happen, right?" was her response. “You’re going to look at your reflection and feel unsatisfied — just like every other woman." And it’s true: Even the most gorgeous of my friends can list a dozen things she’d change about her appearance. So the next time you’re feeling unattractive, don’t blame yourself; blame capitalism and a beauty culture designed to make you feel that way.
Annika Penelope, 10 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started My Transition (via plaidypuss)
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“Princeton University psychologist Susan Fiske took brain scans of heterosexual men while they looked at sexualised images of women wearing bikinis. She found that the part of their brains that became activated was pre-motor - areas that usually light up when people anticipate using tools. The men were reacting to the images as if the women were objects they were going to act on. Particularly shocking was the discovery that the participants who scored highest on tests of hostile sexism were those most likely to deactivate the part of the brain that considers other people’s intentions (the medial prefrontal cortex) while looking at the pictures. These men were responding to images of the women as if they were non-human.”
The Equality Illusion (via lesilencieux)
scary.
(via fuckyeahfeminists)
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TO EVERYONE WHO THINKS WE ARE LIVING IN A POSTRACIAL WORLD. FUCKING READ THIS. CITED FROM REAL PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH.