Better known as white people wearing dreadlocks... Some examples being: I'm asking this question because I just saw this video..
And I wasn't aware that this was some sort of real issue or whatever.. I honestly have never seen an issue in people of any color skin having dreadlocks... My dad actually has dreads.. So this is a topic that hits somewhere close to home for me.. I honestly just see it as a hairstyle and nothing more or less than that. Sure sure... you could tie it down to a culture or whatever.. But why? It's only a hairstyle.. (and one that's trending right now actually.) There's no need to attack anyone for wearing a freaking hairstyle. That woman saying "it's my culture" is being pretty unreasonable from how I see it. I understand "culture" as being more of a widespread and somewhat all-seeing appropriation or what have you... Basically.. I don't see many people sporting dreadlocks. Not even black people. It's just a hairstyle. Sure, it's cool that it has an origin that connects to your culture or whatnot.. But it's not your culture.. If that makes sense? It's hard to explain but I hope that I got my point across. But for example.. If I recall correctly.. It was Native Americans that started braiding hair.. You don't see anyone being attacked for having a fishtail braid or anything.. You're simply decorating your hair. There's no need to cause any kind of fuss about it lol.
What do you think of this kind of stuff? Do you find it offensive that people will wear hairstyles from different cultures etc? If you're black or feel strongly connected to this like I do.. How do you feel about people doing this? Do you find it offensive to your culture?
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What's your opinion on culture appropriation? More specifically.. "White dreadlocks"?
The first known examples of the dreadlock hairstyle come from Ancient Egypt. Recently scientists have found that the Ancient Egyptians were actually more closely related to modern Europeans and inhabitants of the Near East than to present day Egyptians. They're more related to Turks than to black Africans.
The Old Testament also recounts the tale of Samson and Delilah in which a man's potency is directly linked to 'the seven locks on his head' and according to Roman accounts, the Celts were described to have 'hair like snakes' Germanic tribes, Greeks and the Vikings are all said to have worn dreadlocks too.
So the idea that dreadlocks are for black people only is completely false.
Even if it were, the people who says so tend to be hypocritical liberals. These people are anti-racist, they say that race is just a social construct, that we're all one race, that we should all come together as one and not treat each other differently - then what does it matter if we all take from different cultures? Don't black people also enjoy things from white cultures? Also, these people (falsely) claim that we all come from Africa - if that was the case then white people would have black African ancestors who wore dreadlocks, so the entire argument is completely bogus.
On one side, people should wear whatever they want. listen, use or talk with what they identify with, whether its dreadlocks, clothing or music preference. food, language or customs. What I don't agree with is people adopting things in order to make fun of it. If they use something just to ridicule, then i dont agree. Extra information: I am an African man, whos culture is hitting hard in Portugal (Europe). our music, dressing and customs are being adopted my many portuguese citizens. Am I mad about it? no. Why would I be mad that people like the place where I am from and even to the point where they would choose to adopt it?
I think that's a stupid idea since it's only an argument that is ever used against white people by a generation that has never truly experienced racism the way our grandparents have. Not only that but thats how civilization expands. No one group has ever created something solely on their own. Look at the history of noodles. Europeans brought it over from China who brought it over from Persia who probably brought it over from somewhere else. German tribes, Greeks and vikings also had dreads. It doesn't belong to anyone since everyone was doing it. And tbh, if people started wearing something i associate with my culture I would be proud and support it. I like sharing. Like hot wings! An Italian mom made that but you don't see Italians screaming at places selling wings because they aren't Italian. Yes, feel free to spread the accurate history but don't hoard a culture.
I don't think dreadlocks look good on white people but it's their hair, they can do what they want with it. As for the idea of cultural appropriation, I can see both sides of it but ultimately, as long as someone isn't being disrespectful about it, I don't see it as a problem. Cultures share ideas, styles, foods, etc. all the time, especially in diverse countries like the U. S.
Anyway, assuming this woman truly believes it is "her" culture, that's certainly not an excuse to put your hands on someone else. She has a right to voice her concerns, it's actually a good opportunity for discussion and understanding BUT that doesn't mean she has the right to touch him or stop him from walking away if he's done with the conversation. She was in the wrong there.
I guess people who have dreadlocks just shouldn't claim they look better than black people.
But anyways, I was curious about what dreadlocks came from and apparently some of it originated from religious reasons. I guess it's good to know the meaning behind them, whether you wanna wear it for said religious reasons or for fashion.
Oh and apparently they don't look good on other people because their hair isn't curly or whatever. So it takes longer to create. Or they need other methods which aren't "natural".
I agree with you. There's no "violation of property rights" when someone decides to wear a bindi or have dreads. Let people wear their hair however they'd like lol. It doesn't only to apply to hairstyles but food, fashion, etc. Culture is pretty widespread and it's gonna have an impact on entertainment and media everywhere. All cultural appropriation does is promote hostility and segregation.
Even though I find the idea of cultural appropriation a bit kooky, does Your statement mean that it’s more of cultural appropriation if a Black African wears dreads than a White European wearing them? I’m saying, anyone may wear them.
It is weird, because dredlocks originated from more places around the world Africa. That woman in the video needs to face some type of charge for assault or obstructing movement. She put her hands on him first. She is lucky he didn't kick her butt or pull out a weapon.
I get that some folks feel that certain cultural traditions, customs, etc. should not be copied or mocked. But there is no law against it. All you can do is be mad and voice an opinion about it. If you do it respectfully and focus on being articulate, I think most reasonable folks will understand you. But in the case of dredlocks, a practice that has multiple origins around the globe, it is just silly.
How many "Black" people dress up like Indigenous folk? It is disrespectful if you are a "Black" person who is not Indigenous.
I remember this video. And how I laughed when I saw it. As I always say the Left will always eat itself like a snake biting on its tail. I've said it many times, the useful idiots of the left are a rag-tag assortment of people who have nothing in common except for their hatred of White people (this often means self-hatred). Blacks overwhelmingly disapprove of gays, gays on the whole don't actually like lesbians and rarely outside the lgbt shop will they ever associate, same goes for lesbians and their feelings about gays. Feminists and trannys, that has gotten a little attention recently with many top tier feminists coming out against male to female trannys as actual women. Muslims don't like any of them, and all of the lefts ideas are at absolute odds with islam in every way except they see it as a threat to White people, especially Christians so they are all for importing masses of people that hate them. What tools like this white chocolate in the video don't get, is that your dreadlocks and skirt, your massive rap collection and poor fashion choices, or the White feminist always talking about solidarity or some other feel good one liner, is that your Whiteness is target one. All the rap CD's, African headscarves and drums will not save you from what's coming.
I actually like seeing them turn on each other. I love it. It is happening more and more, and it is almost always about the Whiteness of one leftist vs another. Feminists especially better get it, the non-white feminists are gunning for you. Stop being pathetic and take your own side.
As a black man, and the son of a reformed former Black Panther, I think everyone is just making reasons to be mad these days. i don't actually believe "Black" is a culture. We have America, with variations. It is impossible to appropriate something that isn't a real thing. Besides all of that, after centuries of being treated like crap by whites, shouldn't we be happy if a few white people want to look like us? C'mon people, live and let live.
A lot of architecture all over the world is based on Ancient Greek and Roman, including The Congress building.
Same about art, philosophy. Even in modern times the world is drunk on Western way of life, everyone wants to emulate it, Nike's and Coca Cola are popular in India, Africa, China, everywhere. In the Far East women don't want traditional wedding dresses, they want white dresses like in the West.
Leonardo Da Vinci created the first prototype of a car, then Germans went crazy about them and improved them in many iterations and keep doing it today.
Modern medicine - created by the white people.
Modern tech - the same. Whites make an idea, then in the Far East they either improve it, or merely mass-produce.
If you want to avoid "cultural appropriation", stop using white people's technology, medicine, architecture, including the computer you're using right now and the World Wide Web to which it is connected!
Dreadlocks is not "black thing". Dreadlocks has been around all over the world forever and just recently (during the last 50 years or so) become a "black thing" because it hasn't been that common in Europe for the last few centuries. So it's not something that belongs to any specific culture. White people with dreadlocks have existed before.
Cultural and Racial Appropriation is fine with me. to say. i am not stealing your culture and your style . i am admiring it. adopting and infusing its beauty and its essence into my consciousness.
it is the world evolving into new syncretisms = the fusing and the mixing of different thoughts, ideas religions, cultures, and ethnicities, as well as art, fashion, and music that often creates entirely new forms and new ones . its been going on for 10s of thousands of years . But only in this modern day world is it an issue .
On men, it's just cringe. On women, it CAN look good. It actually does in my opinion in the second picture.
As for cultural appropriation. Never understood what's bad about it. I mean white people who wear dreadlocks don't claim to have invented it, so it should not take away from their feeling of cultural accomplishment (if you can call inventing a hairstyle that).
If I appropriate someone's culture I obviously say "I like that". It's a compliment. Also isn't that the whole point about multiculturalism? Never got it. What is the vision of multiculturalism / diversity then, if cultural appropriation is a bad thing. A society comprised of individuals stereotypical of their respective origin cultures?
cultural appropriation is a concept for the ignorant...
guess what, dreds have been traced to man tribal civilizations including...
Vikings, celts, irish... so now, who's the ignorant person, the non white person for saying its cultural appropriation or the white person for doing what white people did historically? Just because a person is offended doesn't make them right no matter how obnoxious and stupid they are.
That girl is a troublemaker. I can't believe she had the audacity to say "Don't put your hands on me" AFTER she put her hands on him and was trying to keep him from walking away from her. It's disgusting that someone like this is employed at a university and harassing students.
That's exactly what I was thinking! She's a student actually.. Whoever posted that video had that bit of information wrong.. But yeah it's gross that she tries to play the victim card after harassing that guy initially.
Cultural appropriation, yeah that concept is bullshit, and also ends up being racist/ignorant towards those cultures that are supposedly being "appropriated." It was called cultural appropriation when in the TV show Iron Fist they showed a white dude learning kung fu. That's apparently stealing from the Asian culture. Yet many Asians themselves fired back, asking then: "Does that mean we're you're circus monkeys, the only ones who are allowed to do kung fu? No, that's stupid."
well thar was a small section of Asian that fired back. what people were really angry at how there a low representation of Asians in American media. but the samw sjw didn't do their home work on iron fist and know he's a white dude. i see both sides
Dreadlocks, may be appropriate in some professions, but may not be in others.
As for fads and fashions America is pretty diverse among the younger generations and for one race to criticize another based on dreadlocks is being racist and what is really wrong with this country.
My mom has actually had dreads before ahahahaha, no one had a problem with it, black people complimented her. And I don't think its culture appropriation, its culture appreciation. My mother respect African Americans and their culture, and actually knows about it. I think some white guys look pretty hot with it too tbh.
The CO issue is crap... If a black woman can straiten her hair or bleach it light brown or blond and nobody has an issue, why, if a white person likes the style, why should that bean issue... Bindi's, dreadlocks, head scarfs, bla bla bla it people looking for issues.. that is all
I don't think cultural appropriation is okay... I don't know about the dreadlocks myself because I really don't give a crap what others do, but when someone from a certain culture is borrowing styles/origins/roots from another culture and claiming it to be their own culture's style/etc. that is NOT okay. or shaming what other cultures do in terms of trends/beauty/style and all that... for example ; people have repeatedly made fun of black women for their lips/shape/body , then suddenly it is trendy and other cultures want that feature, but that culture didn't appreciate it on black women and they shamed them for it in the past. that is not okay either.
Dreadlocks isn't from African American culture though, all I see is that lady claiming it's from her culture so she is the one trying to steal from other cultures.
Anyone can wear whatever they want, whenever they want, however they want and it doesn't matter if they call it their culture as long as they don't bother anyone else about it.
Of course it's not from African American culture. It's from African culture. Claiming something doesn't equal stealing, especially if it's in the right
@LiahRain African culture and African American cultures aren't similar though, and dreadlocks are more of an east African culture rather than a west African culture where most African Americans come from. I'm African and African American culture and mine are nothing alike. African American culture is just as close as American culture is to European culture if not further.
I'm African American and even though you continue to say they're nothing alike, they are alike. In many ways than you'd think. Why do y'all always distance yourselves from us as if it's our faults
@LiahRain Well maybe nothing alike was a bit harsh, not trying to distance myself from African Americans, I love African Americans, the whole world finds them cool but the only thing is most Africans view African Americans the same way Europeans view Americans. We might have had common ancestors a few hundred years ago but we're two different cultures and that's what makes the world a beautiful place, Multiculturism.
All I want to say is the beauty of culture is that any nation can adapt it, African Americans and Americans are one in my eyes, you shouldn't let simple things like that divide you.
People get stupid about things. Indians could say that doing it doggy is in the kama sutra so it's their culture. White people could say that they invented banking so that's their culture. Chinese could say anyone using fireworks isn't respecting Chinese culture. Morons everywhere. Live and let live, and don't let the hater fill your mind with their tripe.
Yeah pretty much. I also think that it's just because a lot of people like to create drama and stir up a fuss when there's really nothing wrong at all.
i don't wanna touch this with a five foot pole buuuuut, I'm pretty sure dread locks don't belongs to any particular race tbh and to be upset white people wear them is ridiculous
I am glad the camera was on. if it was not on I believe there would have been a fight about it. they are not protecting their culture. they are even talking in English (not their language). wearing western clothes. eating western food. using western technology. if they want to protect their culture then they can be in their homeland and talk in their mother tongue. if they do that then I will support them. till they don't I would like to say that these a**es don't know anything about what is right or wrong.
I am saying present is created by the efforts of all combined. if they think their culture is offended by someone having dreads then they should live in the basic (oldest) blacks culture because this world is not for them.
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