CRAXY filmed their 4 comebacks last year and they released the 4 teasers for the 4 comebacks that year. Gaia was done, "The dance with God" teaser received a bad feedback because Karin was styled with braids and people said that it was cultural appropiation.
The company isn't that big and can't make another video just to erase this issue , however they did reshoot the photo albums !
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I admit that sometimes I hate how people with privilege can always get their own ways and no-one says a damn thing, wherever they do will be seem as fine , while social minorities are seem like shit ! but then I think..." Not all people with privilege are bad people and having hate towards other people is envy and ironically the thing that we don't want anymore "Hate" "
Maybe I'm being too simplistic sometimes? Maybe I'm not seeing the magnitude of the problem?maybe I see the world as one entity?
I thought that we lived in cultural exchange since almost every country has been influenced by other countries and have borrowed certain things so this makes me feel confused.
I don't get why people kick out people from schools and jobplaces just because they are black and they are wearing braids or cornrows . The hairstyle doesn't define if you're a good student or worker...
Sometimes I think that if there wasn't discrimination due to the hairstyle then black people wouldn't have a problem with white people using those hairstyles,right?
It just so hard to draw a line between cultural appropriation and appreciation and it makes me feel so confused.
This is going to sound really polemic, but some people(not all) come with this attitude of revenge... Like... "You cannot wear this due to all the pain that you all did , now deal with the fact that we can wear this while you can't" .
It's like some LGBTQ+ people trying to punish straight people for wearing clothes that break the gender rules. I mean... Weren't we supporting freedom and stuff? Why forbid other people from being free with their bodies and style? Is just LGBTQ+ people allowed to break the gender stereotypes?
All this sounds like a long essay.
But... There's something that doesn't click with me. I'm part of the LGBTQ+ community and I know how horrible is discrimination, but there are some actions taken by minorities that feel the same taken by the ones who hurt us and it feels like the perpetrator becomes the victim and the victim perpetrator.
Idk... It's a complex topic.
There are people who are racist and wear elements from the black people. Of course that I don't support that, it's not coherent .
Anyway, while writing this I received this thought of "identity" and I know identity is necessary. I know black people want to hold their identify and don't want their identity to be seem as trivial,right? But... Then I think about how food like Sushi can be eaten around the world without losing its identity of being something from Japan! People who are not japanese can make Sushi with respect and that's not a big deal, but then I think that no-one gets kicked out from their jobs(while black people are kicked out because they use braids) because they are Japanese and make sushis(but xenophobia exists so it can happen...).
Maybe I'm too permissive... I'm like wear what you like, do what you like and leave me live my life ...
This thread is so disorganized, but it's because I have too many thoughts and it's hard for me to take a position. I admit that I'm a hypocrite and contradicting person. We humans are complexed.
But...Life is not black or white, it can be gray...
I know I'm gonna get a lot of facepalmed reactions and that's ok, my opinions/interpretations are not fixed FYI...