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#Appropriation
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awkward_duck
Anytime non-black person tweets "ya'll stop buying our hair" to Black people (usually in convos a/b cultural appropriation) they are never from Peru, Brazil, Malaysia, India or even Kanekelon... A
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M :) JULY 30TH
NEvennoticed
It has just come to my attention that I used AAVE earlier this year in two replies. (I have now deleted) I take full responsibility for the fact that these
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Sonia Trivedi
MsSTrivedi
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/01/17/406246770/how-namaste-flew-away-from-usYoga teachers teach overblown interpretations of the word to try grounding their classes in a sense of authenticity, or even holiness. The word namas
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Dumss.
LongLiveDumi
Telesis, but in design.Telesis is progress that is intelligently planned & directed. It is the attainment or desired ends by the application of intelligent human efforts to the means. Bringing
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Rebecca F. Kenney📚📝🎶
RebeccaFKenney1
Thoughts on drawing inspiration from other cultures for fantasy nations, like Leigh Bardugo's books? Writers are told to avoid "just another European-style fantasy setting," as that's been done many times.
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索菲亚
repoio____
Well, for me this topic of Yibo wearing a durag, the ca, the MASSIVE amount of mails that were sent to yuehua and so. I needed to do a thread,
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GHOSTRULlNG
i’ve seen multiple white people argue about the nya pronouns thing while reverse searching the term. can u stop that. japanese people get made fun of for their language and
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Momo🍑🍑❖
byulsgarbagecan
PLEASE READ!About CASomething I learned as an american studying abroad in japan (so no not korea, but the situations are almost identical in this regard):Western entitlement is a real thing.
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God’s Property Is A P-Funk Album Stan Account 👁
csilverandgold
There’s some very low nuance discourse happening rn around non-black ppl using a) aave and b) what are really loan words from aave and like... it’s a lot of white
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marsh⁷
marsh_twt
Here's why cultural appropriation is wrong and why it can happen to Filipino wear too since y'all want to invalidate anyone's concern for THEIR culturea thread by a Filipino:https://twitter.com/swallalisaa/status/127746326598390
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adarian
just_adarian21
The Problem with The Appropriation of AAVE: A Thread For anyone who doesn’t know, AAVE stands for African-American Vernacular English. If you haven’t heard the term, you’ve heard the language.
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goIdenreys
why are white girls always doing their most to excuse ariana’s racist behavior what it doesn’t affect them at all... i hate my race i literally sent this chick 5
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j3remybearimy
a few weeks after lisa’s box braids, and now in light of bang chan’s cornrows: a thread on cultural appropriation and why it’s wrong nyc JUST passed a law preventing
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JULIA KONG 🏔
juliaakong
for the billionth time: ASIAN CULTURE IS NOT YOUR AESTHETIC a couple asian people in CT do not represent all asian ppl. it doesn’t matter if u got “approval”, THIS
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G.M Cantaveᴮᴱ⁷
gmcantave1
Im gonna say this once and for all I still have to publish the cultural appropriation article I've been planning for months now but im gonna drop a piece of
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Lucas Brown Eyes
LucasBrownEyes
Erasure works in many ways. One of the counterintuitive ones is appropriation. “But how could using a culture be erasure?”Let me explain. Popcorn is a distinctly Native food. Yet, it’s
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