Tuesday, 23 January 2018

Keep your mind refreshed

As we all know there have been many devastations  around the world, to face these issues first on we have got to be aware; aware that those who have greater influence can help educate those on their ignorance.
There are social media influencers who can actually address situations and have their followers aware that certain things are wrong. For instance cultrual appropriation can be misunderstood, the defintion as it merely states is, "taking aspects from a minority culture, for its aesthetics, without knowning the meaning behind it." It is when a majority decides to take some of the cultural aspects from a minority group and make it into their own, for example the native american headdress which means alot to them but many people wear it as a fancy dress costume without realising their ignorance, also offensive.
If you love the culture, and wanna wear the custom dress- that's fine, but what's not fine is wearing it for halloween (any costume theme party) or even taking bits of it and making it into your own design. That is what cultural appropriation is, rather than turning a blind eye and looking like a fool, educate yourself, you're never too old to learn.

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