Out of all of my pet peeves Cultural Appropriation is definitely one of the biggest, and BOY has 2014 been the year of celebrity cultural appropriation. I think it's totally disgusting to detatch a culture from its meaning and use it as an Instagram caption to boost their trendiness. Some people like to argue that they culturally appropriate a certain culture because they "respect it" or "love it so much" but there's a huge difference between CULTURAL APPROPRIATION VS CULTURAL APPRECIATION. *If you are not a part of the culture then don't steal from it. It's totally fine if you wanna write about how much you love it or draw pictures of people wearing these cultural items like bindis but don't be that person to cross the line and don a bindi in your Instagram photo. Let me get to the celebrities...
First off ladies and gentleman, we have *drumroll* KATTYY PERRRYYY
She's recently been getting some heavy backlash for her repeated cultural appropriation and I can completely understand why. If Katy didn't appropriate other cultures would she even have a career? Because that seems like what it's been built off of. All she's accomplishing is contributing to racial stereotypes that need to be dropped.
Next up is SELENA GOMEZ:
We've got another repeat offender here. She's been doing this for quite a while but she finally got called out when she performed her song "Come and Get it" at the MTV movie awards. FOR SOME REASON she thought it would be totally okay and non-controversial to wear a bindi and an indian themed outfit. **HEAVY SIGHING**
Last but definitely not least, MILEY CYRUS:
Dear Miley Cyrus, cultural insensitivity isn't cute! Using black female dancers as props is not cute! Taking on a culture because you're privileged enough not to face the racist negatives that go along with it IS NOT CUTE! All she's doing is putting a bunch of stereotypes of lower classes of minorities together so she can be "edgy" or "gangsta". I would also like to know how Miley got away with doing something that black women have been doing for years (twerking) and now all of a sudden there are no more negative connotations that go along with it because she's a rich white girl. BUT as soon as a black girl is caught twerking she's "ho" or "slut". That's not right. The other day I found this great slam poem on Youtube about twerking and I think you should all watch it and educate yourselves:
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