Another viral outrage about "cultural appropriation"
(an example at https://www.themarysue.com/asian-americas-vs-mainland-asian/ )
A European-American teen girl wore a Chinese dress to her prom. Her photo gone viral, and "woke" SJW pansies screamed cultural appropriation!
And as usual, people who actually live in China are OK with the dress, it's the "woke" SJW pansies who live in the US who are complaining!
But now those "woke" SJW pansies have a sad excuse of a comeback
It is "those Chinese in China aren't oppressed because they grew up as the majority, but us Chinese descendants in the US (or other white-dominated lands) get picked on as little kids, and now it hurts that people who look like someone who picked on me are wearing our cultural costumes"
Oh, KNOCK IT OFF!
I am of mixed-ancestries (Mexican, Puerto Rican, Portuguese, German, etc), but look mostly "Latino".
I grew up in Hawaii, where there are ZERO "Latino-majority neighborhoods"
There's NOT A SINGLE "Latino majority school" here
(note#1 : most people in Hawaii with Spanish last names tend to be Filipinos.
note #2 Some Portuguese did come here in the late 1800s and many mixed with Native Hawaiians. Many of their descendants get mistaken as "Mexican" when they visit the continental US. )
Those of Latin-American ancestry are probably about 1-3% of the students of the schools I attended! Very tiny minority, very outnumbered by Asians and Pacific Islanders!
Me growing up with identity crisis? Best believe it!
Me growing up with peers whose knowledge of my ancestral cultures being distorted by TV shows and movies? Best believe it!
But so what?
I also grow up reading Lowrider Magazine, listening to Cypress Hill, and Suicidal Tendencies, watching movies based in East LA, reading about Latino communities in Miami, El Paso, New York and more!
I grew up visiting LA and Mexico!
I also had an older brother who visited Mexico more often than I did, and he also had a sense of humor about himself!
All of which inspired me to become thicker-skinned in my ancestral identities!
Seeing "Brown Pride" in Lowrider Magazine, coming from people from communities in which people who look like me are the majority helped give me a thicker skin about my identity!
So I could easily have a sense of humor about that Spanglish speaking bumble-bee character from the Simpsons! The same show in which the French were called "cheese eating surrender monkeys". When will the French do a documentary about that?
It's time for SJWs to start being inspired by the thicker skins of people from their ancestral lands.
I encourage Chinese-Americans to be inspired by the thicker skins of Chinese living in China who loved the Anglo girl wearing a Chinese dress.
I encourage Japanese-Americans to be inspired by the thicker skins of Japanese living in Japan who appreciate the Anglos wearing kimonos and trying to be ninjas.
I encourage Indian-Americans to be inspired by Indians living in India whose response to Apu is to just laugh off that fictional character that was never meant to portray Indian reality!
And yes, I encourage Mexican-Americans attending university in upstate New York to have a sense of humor about Anglos wearing sombreros for Cinco de Mayo or Halloween!
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So yes, it's OK to be angry at that Anglo bully who told you to "go back to (insert foreign country here)", but if that's the reason you mad at another Anglo person wearing your cultural clothing, GROW UP and get some serious psychiatric help!
