ariverofstone:

crepes-are-tasty:

you gotta remember that the idea of cultural appropriation isn’t really about 

“oh, well white people enjoying a culture that isn’t theirs pisses of the people in its country of origin because they can’t do it right”

it really has nothing to do with the country where the people of that culture are a majority.

it’s about the people who are in an ethnic minority in a country and how they feel about the ethnic majority using their culture

it’s more

“how come white people can do this thing from my native culture and get praised for being so cultured cool, when the people in an ethnic minority can’t participate in that culture without being criticized for not assimilating enough”

its about how if a Japanese American kid went to an american school in a kimono, they’d risk serious harassment, so it seems kinda insensitive to be white and wearing a kimono acting like its some across the sea culture that isn’t being repressed at the house two doors down

Thank you for understanding where we come from.