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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8663776" data-attributes="member: 7025997"><p>It's often a difference between people in the original country and immigrants from that country to the country in question (who often feel more insecure due to local histories of discrimination, etc.). There was a famous case where a high school student wanted to wear a <em>qipao/cheongsam</em> dress to prom, got flak from local Chinese-American activists who thought it was cultural appropriation, and support from Chinese people in China who were tickled people liked their local crafts. </p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/world/asia/chinese-prom-dress.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p>There was a similar situation with an exhibit where you could put on a kimono at the MFA in Boston below a late 19th-century painting of a (Caucasian) woman trying on a kimono a few years back--Americans thought it was appropriation, the Japanese in Japan were disappointed in the ruckus and hoping to get attention for their declining traditional kimono industry. (The original painting was Monet making fun of the love of Europeans of his era for 'exotic' Japanese items, amusingly enough.)</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.wbur.org/news/2016/02/08/mfa-kimono-controversy[/URL]</p><p></p><p>There's also the question of 'your game' (which only really has to satisfy the players) versus 'publicly released product' (which can reach, and therefore offend, many more people).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue Orange, post: 8663776, member: 7025997"] It's often a difference between people in the original country and immigrants from that country to the country in question (who often feel more insecure due to local histories of discrimination, etc.). There was a famous case where a high school student wanted to wear a [I]qipao/cheongsam[/I] dress to prom, got flak from local Chinese-American activists who thought it was cultural appropriation, and support from Chinese people in China who were tickled people liked their local crafts. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/world/asia/chinese-prom-dress.html[/URL] There was a similar situation with an exhibit where you could put on a kimono at the MFA in Boston below a late 19th-century painting of a (Caucasian) woman trying on a kimono a few years back--Americans thought it was appropriation, the Japanese in Japan were disappointed in the ruckus and hoping to get attention for their declining traditional kimono industry. (The original painting was Monet making fun of the love of Europeans of his era for 'exotic' Japanese items, amusingly enough.) [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.wbur.org/news/2016/02/08/mfa-kimono-controversy[/URL] There's also the question of 'your game' (which only really has to satisfy the players) versus 'publicly released product' (which can reach, and therefore offend, many more people). [/QUOTE]
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