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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7852868" data-attributes="member: 4937">I have complex thoughts about the power dynamic argument.   As you might have gathered, I personally wouldn't wear costumes depicting myself in an ethnic manner and encourage others not to, but my belief is that most of the arguments as to why you shouldn't are false and tend to come from dark places with less than savory motivates.   As evidence that I'm correct in that, I invite you to look at the hypocrisy involved in supporting Justin Trudeau or Ralph Northam.   Power dynamics indeed...Yeah, I've been aware of that for over 20 years. I had a close friend who was Swiss who was married to a Southern man who told me about the European fascination with aboriginal American culture in his travels in Europe. And again, it's not something that I would do, but this sort of reenactment thing actually cuts tangential to my major argument against wearing costume, and likewise I think cuts tangentially to the one you've been offering the last few posts. There isn't a power dynamic between the Cherokee, Lakota, Comanche, or Creek and East Germans either. So while I find it a bit weird I'm inclined toward tolerance as well. Indeed, I'm inclined toward tolerance in everything.My advice to the tribes, if they were inclined to ask it, would be to engage in cultural hegemony. Get them to pay you to go over there as advisers and show them how it ought to be done. But that gets back to the problem of, "Who do you ask?" Because you'd likely have some natives that would be totally on board with that and some that are totally offended by it. So if you get permission from one or two or ten, does that make it all right? Full disclosure. I don't count myself as native, wasn't raised that way, and would consider it false and presumptuous of me to claim title to it or to speak on behalf of anyone but myself, but I do have an ancestor on my mother's side on the Creek Dawes roll which is more than some people who claim the ancestry actually have.</blockquote>

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