face is frowned upon, those who’ve been advised about this issue will think that they may dress up as other racist stereotypes as long they’re not dressing up as black people, which is a problem in 2017. I believe that we must be more educated about this issue of appropriating cultures and say to people that it is not ok to dress up as other ethnicities to celebrate non-traditional events because it’s racist. You cannot justify dressing up as a Geisha because it’s a Halloween costume, wearing a Native American Headdress at Coachella because it is the Indie fashion, nor putting on a sombrero to celebrate Cinco DE Mayo, when it’s an excuse to drink tequila all day. I would feel very offended if I saw people pretending to be Asians by stretching their eyes, saying ‘ching chong’ and put chopsticks in their hair as it discriminates my ethnicity. Even at Karamu, this happens when juniors decide to dress up as Aboriginals for tabloids, when girls wear red Chinese cheongsam because they are in Heretaunga house and wearing Bindis to accessorise their hair during Blossom Festival. Accordingly, we cannot dress up as Maoris for tabloids, so why would we dress up as Aboriginals? Ultimately, I strongly encourage people to stop appropriating cultures and wear racist stereotypes for their conveniences, but instead respecting the people of the culture by sticking to wearing witch costumes at Halloween and instead throw an ABBA themed party.
face is frowned upon, those who’ve been advised about this issue will think that they may dress up as other racist stereotypes as long they’re not dressing up as black people, which is a problem in 2017. I believe that we must be more educated about this issue of appropriating cultures and say to people that it is not ok to dress up as other ethnicities to celebrate non-traditional events because it’s racist. You cannot justify dressing up as a Geisha because it’s a Halloween costume, wearing a Native American Headdress at Coachella because it is the Indie fashion, nor putting on a sombrero to celebrate Cinco DE Mayo, when it’s an excuse to drink tequila all day. I would feel very offended if I saw people pretending to be Asians by stretching their eyes, saying ‘ching chong’ and put chopsticks in their hair as it discriminates my ethnicity. Even at Karamu, this happens when juniors decide to dress up as Aboriginals for tabloids, when girls wear red Chinese cheongsam because they are in Heretaunga house and wearing Bindis to accessorise their hair during Blossom Festival. Accordingly, we cannot dress up as Maoris for tabloids, so why would we dress up as Aboriginals? Ultimately, I strongly encourage people to stop appropriating cultures and wear racist stereotypes for their conveniences, but instead respecting the people of the culture by sticking to wearing witch costumes at Halloween and instead throw an ABBA themed party.