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Don’t call braids on white ppl “cultural appropriation” if you wear a Wig like this. It legit makes no sense
3 upvotes, 17 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "Don’t call braids on white ppl “cultural appropriation” if you wear a Wig like this. It legit makes no sense"
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Anonymous 1d

Tf are u talking about. Loose running hair isn’t cultural 😭😭

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Anonymous 1d

Do you know what cultural appropriation is?

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Anonymous replying to -> themind._.ofhueyfreeman25 1d

Then neither are braids?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

cornrows and tight patterned close scalp braids are. White people did not do those. These wigs could be on Latino, Asian, white, Pacific islanders etc. now if you showed a blonde wig I’d more or so get it. But you just made the worse argument ever to defend wanting to cosplay as black ppl

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

Braid are cultural. Different cultures have different braid styles dumbass

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

Being blonde isn’t cultural either tho.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

Let’s say a black person wore a blonde wig then. Is that cultural appropriation? Also I would never want to cosplay a black person. One of my friends got braids because she has long hair and she got yelled at for “stealing culture” by someone on a bench with an obvious wig

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

No…being blonde is genetic not cultural

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Anonymous replying to -> themind._.ofhueyfreeman25 1d

that’s why i said I more or so understand the point. They’re obviously wrong and want to defend cultural appropriation, but literally showed a wig that anyone of any race or culture background could have naturally, while a blonde wing would’ve fit their point better. Still wrong tho. Lmao, sounds like their friend look chopped and got called out by a stranger and it hurts their feelings they can’t be a Kardashian.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

If you think she looked chopped you should have seen the woman on the bench

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

No, bc the braids your friend got were probably def made for a person of a certain racially defined hair texture and not for the hair type they were designed around from the cultural history and doesn’t understand the historical context of how people who used to get them were oppressed and they just get to do for a fad and not bc of necessity or relation.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

Nobody alive was a slave back then so there isn’t anyone who should be getting offended today

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

That doesn’t negate anything. It still holds cultural significance because of slavery.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

trust me babe, your friend isn’t cute😭

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

They are also protective to that hair texture, bc Americas climate is damaging to their hair texture.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

That’s not necessarily true. Americas climate doesn’t damage our hair. It is a protective hairstyle tho, but it wasn’t created specifically because of America’s climate.

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Anonymous replying to -> themind._.ofhueyfreeman25 1d

ik it wasn’t, but from what I’ve read, the humidity is damaging, it’s mitigated by products, and in all fairness is also damaging to white peoples hair too

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