Teen Insults 1.379 Billion People

Joe Guy · Post by **Joe Guy** » Wed May 02, 2018 12:36 am

'It's just a dress': Teen's Chinese prom attire stirs cultural appropriation debate
Samantha Schmidt, The Washington Post Published 5:36 am, Tuesday, May 1, 2018

It's that time of year in high school, the season of the highly anticipated, stress-inducing rite of passage called prom.

Like many other teenagers preparing for prom, Utah senior Keziah Daum wanted to find a dress that would stand out, "something that would be more unique and bold and had some sort of meaning to it," she said in an interview with The Washington Post.

Daum decided to browse a vintage store in downtown Salt Lake City, where she came across a red cheongsam, also known as a qipao - the high-collared, form-fitting traditional Chinese dress.

"I thought it was absolutely beautiful," said Daum, who is not Chinese. She appreciated its high neckline, a difficult trait to find in many prom dresses. The dress, she said, "really gave me a sense of appreciation and admiration for other cultures and their beauty."

On a Sunday after the dance, like many other social media-savvy high schoolers, she posted a photo in her dress alongside her friends. "PROM," she wrote.

She had no idea it would elicit such a response.

"My culture is NOT your . . .. prom dress," a man named Jeremy Lam tweeted days later, sharing the photos she posted.

"I'm proud of my culture, including the extreme barriers marginalized people within that culture have had to overcome those obstacles," Lam also wrote. "For it to simply be subject to American consumerism and cater to a white audience, is parallel to colonial ideology."

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I will be starting a politically correct movement on behalf of the Chinese who have been exposed to this terrible insult to their culture. I'm going to call it Mee Tu. I've already ordered the T-Shirts.

dales · Post by **dales** » Wed May 02, 2018 1:53 am

Get your copy of Mao's Little Red Book, Joe.

Joe Guy · Post by **Joe Guy** » Wed May 02, 2018 2:35 am

But if I go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, I ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow.

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Wed May 02, 2018 2:41 am

She appears to fill it out quite nicely, too... IMHO

Some people have such hollow lives they need to find thing to bitch and moan about.

Econoline · Post by **Econoline** » Wed May 02, 2018 7:51 am

It's a beautiful dress, and she wears it well.

And shouldn't the people who've criticized her for wearing it be going after the store that sold it to her?

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Wed May 02, 2018 10:20 am

OFFS!! When did we become such a bunch of pathetic whining miserable bastards...

Crackpot · Post by **Crackpot** » Wed May 02, 2018 11:00 am

We? Speak for yourself.
For you however i’m Pretty sure it was around the time you thought a Bon Jovi pun was worthy of sharing.

Bicycle Bill · Post by **Bicycle Bill** » Wed May 02, 2018 4:04 pm

-"BB"-

Econoline · Post by **Econoline** » Fri May 04, 2018 10:08 pm

Gotta love Berkeley Breathed!!!

datsunaholic · Post by **datsunaholic** » Sat May 05, 2018 6:37 am

Interestingly, the only people offended by her choice of prom dress are... Americans.

The Chinese in China don't give a hoot about it. At most they seem amused by the controversy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/worl ... dress.html

Sue U · Post by **Sue U** » Mon May 07, 2018 1:22 am

Let me just say for the record that I fully support most forms of so-called cultural appropriation. If it were not for cultural appropriation, human civilization could never advance; you need only look as far as our alphabet, appropriated from the Phoenecians by way of the Greeks. Art, music, crafts, cuisine, science, engineering, literature, government, religion -- virtually all of human culture -- is the story of adopting and adapting ideas among human populations. Brahms unabashedly "appropriated" for his Hungarian Dances as did Dvorak for his New World Symphony as did Copland for, like, almost everything he wrote. Most sushi places around here are run by Koreans, many pizzerias are run by Greeks (and, increasingly, Latin Americans). For an American, how is wearing Hong Kong couture any different from wearing Paris couture?

rubato · Post by **rubato** » Mon May 07, 2018 1:53 am

Music, art, fashion, architecture, theatre, cuisine all become part of the global culture when they find it. "cultural appropriation" is a bullshit term referring to nothing.

Is Throne of Blood cultural appropriation? Is it cultural appropriation what we have three gamelan orchestras in Santa Cruz? Bah, stupidity.

yrs,
rubato

rubato · Post by **rubato** » Mon May 07, 2018 1:54 am

datsunaholic wrote:Interestingly, the only people offended by her choice of prom dress are... Americans.
... " l

A tiny fraction of the stupid people in the US, you mean.

yrs,
rubato

Joe Guy · Post by **Joe Guy** » Mon May 07, 2018 2:21 am

The Beatles made millions by culturally appropriating American Rock & Roll and selling it back to us and the rest of the world. I've always been a fan of The Beatles but now I think I'm offended.

dales · Post by **dales** » Mon May 07, 2018 2:33 am

The white man stole rock and roll from the black man.

Joe Guy · Post by **Joe Guy** » Mon May 07, 2018 3:30 am

I've heard a lot of Chuck Berry's records and I'm pretty sure he was white....

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Mon May 07, 2018 4:13 am

Cultural appropriation -- where exactly is the line?

Ugg-a-Wugg!

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Tue May 08, 2018 4:20 pm

Nation’s High School Students Encouraged To Just Wear Large Paper Bags To Prom To Avoid Offending Any Cultures
http://babylonbee.com/news/nations-high ... -cultures/

Joe Guy · Post by **Joe Guy** » Tue May 08, 2018 5:30 pm

The bag idea would offend Muslim women. It would probably be best to just ban proms. Proms are offensive to people who can't get a date and many of those people develop PTSD and become serial killers.

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Tue May 08, 2018 6:31 pm

The bag idea would offend Muslim women.

And the tree huggers...

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