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cultural appreciation: learning karate from a certified trainer who has learnt the history behind the art and has mastered it (and you are learning as well), wearing the qipao during rhd even though you are a malay, wearing the kimono at a japanese tourist attraction (1/10) https://twitter.com/sikeadelics/status/1310906532276527105
cultural appropriation: using the culture as your aesthetic. you think it looks cool, so you wear it and completely dismisses the fact that the fragment of culture you are wearing has meaning behind it. miss badgaldidi here not only says the- (2/14)
-nword and calls black people "blacks", but she also belittles the history behind the hairstyle by saying "it's just braids" whenever people try to educate her. no, it's not just braids. during slavery they hid food in their braids to survive. it was also part of a- (3/14)
- few tribal cultures to learn how to braid hair. on top of that, black hair has always been ridiculed and mocked. it's very unfair and it shows a lot once it becomes a trend on a non-black person's head (4/14)
why would you, as someone who claims to have been educated on braids, want to be a part of a system that is unfair to black people, but is immediately applauding non-black people who has the exact same hairstyle that black people were ridiculed for? (5/14)
if you're educated on this, you would understand this and NOT want to be a part of it. it just goes to show you're not actually educated and is just saying it so people stop shitting on you for wearing it. you know it's unacceptable. (6/14)
so i ask again, why would you still want to do it? i would also like to add, badgaldidi's commentary on blm is very interesting to me. because since she is so sure on being educated on black culture, why will she compare the discrimination she faces as a malay- (7/14)
-to the literal killing of black people? i'm a malay too, and while i agree that malays/brown people in general face a shit ton of discrimination for our skin colour, it is nothing compared to what black people face. those people are scared to even walk out- (8/14)
-of their house to go run errands because they're afraid they're gonna just be stopped and that's the last time they'll ever see the world again. it is so fucking insensitive to compare what brown people go to, and then put the hashtag # brownskinsmatter when some are- (9/14)
-literally fighting so black people won't get murdered for merely existing. honestly if there's anything i can conclude from this, badgaldidi is not educated/not educated ENOUGH. she doesn't understand the impact her actions has on black people and prefers to drown in- (10/14)
-her own ignorance rather than letting people educate her. she had a chance to be educated, when people on tiktok pointed out it was unacceptable. but she pushes it away. now that she is a twitter topic, all of a sudden she is the victim and people are clout chasers? (11/14)
accept your mistakes and move on. i won't say much about this matter anymore as i am not a black person but i am a strong ally and i want to speak up about this because i feel like i've learnt a lot. it is clear that the black people who are watching this situation- (12/14)
-are appalled by it and maybe to a certain extent, offended. just learn, educate yourself, apologise and move on. whether the black community accepts your apology is another thing but i were you, that's what i'd be doing rather than continue being embarrassing- (13/14)
-and keep on defending myself. that's all :-) please don't attack me i'm tired of having to explain again and again why this is racist. thank you very muchy 
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