it's interesting to contrast western concepts of cultural appropriation with the way India integrates western women into its ecosystem

Giselli Monteiro is Brazilian
Yana Gupta (Jana Synková) is Czech
Ellie Avram (Elisabet Avramidou Granlund) is Swedish
Amy Jackson is British

there is a *lot* to get into here, and it's very easy to trip up over, get confused about. many different angles and many different things people choose to focus on

I would emphasize that in India, saris are basically *the norm*, or otherwise very central https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1070620696609341440

another element is the hyper-fetishization of light skin – it will be interesting to see how India/Bollywood deals with a global media landscape that increasingly celebrates blackness and dark skin https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1069698517617205248

a thing that's very hard to talk about in a polite and tactful way – but is nonetheless almost certainly a thing – there is this sort of "reverse colonization" fantasy, where the suave, powerful brown man is irresistable to the slutty, immoral white women

the women listed in the first tweet in this thread are examples I think of actresses who have broken that mold somewhat – but you'll notice that none of them get to be truly royalty. An outsider is still an outsider. Unless they marry into royalty, maybe