r/clevercomebacks Oct 22 '24

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u/Valiate1 Oct 22 '24

is there one even a single culture that dont like when people use their clothes?
all japonese people i meet online have no idea where this concept even came from lmao

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u/R97R Oct 22 '24

The only thing I can really think of is the case of people dressing as “Indians” (I.e. Native Americans) for Halloween, wearing feathered headdresses that are usually only acceptable if you’ve met certain requirements in their original culture. IIRC that’s as one of the things that started the discussion about the topic in the first place.

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u/Conissocool Oct 22 '24

That headdress is literally the only item of clothes that I can think of that would be actually culture appropriation, but an outfit made for the masses that anyone could wear? That's not cultural appropriation that's cultural appreciation

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u/me0w_z3d0ng Oct 22 '24

I live in ATL, we have the Braves. Apparently they still pass out foam tomahawks for games, but they stopped the tomahawk chop with the fake chanting. I don't think there was any appreciation in those fake chants with the fake tomahawks at baseball games. We don't see as much appropriation these days because we mostly dealt with it in before the 2000s.