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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've done this before. It was my guy best friend asking me for relationship advice for him and my girl best friend. I'm dead.

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Engage in self-care. Don't allow stress to derail your healthy routines. Make conscious efforts to eat well, exercise, and get enough sleep. Many folks find stress release in practices such as yoga and meditation.

Seek support from those you trust. People tend to isolate themselves when they’re stressed or worried but social support is important, so reach out to family and friends.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's what happens when you go into a relationship with the mind set of forcing the other person into said relationship.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is not a spoiler, because it happens in the very first minutes of the movie, but still, if you don't wanna know anything about the movie you should stop right away. Heck, you should have stopped at the "This is not a spoiler" part.... You've been warned! Alright, you do know that the dog isn't really dead and it's alive and well right? You know how movies work, right? :)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes I think that to be able to afford health care in the United States, you have to be really rich.

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Guillaume Derode
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WTF is wrong with people. If I want to do a haistyle, I'll do the hairstyle, regardless of anyone feeling offended by it. Are we really going to bar people from doing things because of the color of their skin? Even if that color is white? The world's gone mad.

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Burs
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly. This gatekeeping of certain thing just for being white (more often than not done by white fake woke people) is absurd. A haircut is a haircut and it belongs to all humans. Or should people with dark hair be banned from dying blond? People with curly hair not allowed to straighten it. Or people with straight hair not able to curl it.

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Lady Cadaver
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why does it have to be "CULTURAL APPROPRIATION", why can it not be "CULTURAL APPRECIATION"?

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Mermaid Elle-Jaye
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why can’t it also just be hair in a video game 😝 but seriously, I love your comment

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.V.
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People from all over the world have done their hair like this for centuries. European, African, Asian, Princess Leia...

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Alina Vacari
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I literally was confused, because was thinking of Princess Leia. How exactly are her buns offensive... ahahah

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Kimi Tomminello
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those buns are pretty common in Asian styles as well. I'm sorry but this is one that I will personally push back on. Do some freaking research.

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Andy Acceber
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2 years ago

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Puffs are different than buns. Here's a tweet that zooms in and shows the difference. https://mobile.twitter.com/lilbittysherb/status/1330238407537266695

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Chich
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

people need to pull thier heads out of their asses. Getting offended is not a life style. If it is, you are a sad little potato.

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KatHat
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2 years ago

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Equating someone wanting to learn and be sensitive with being "offended" is a misread of the situation and an attempt to minimize what they're REALLY saying.

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Deutschland Mädchen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Uh, I've seen a lot of white people who look so cute in space buns. Never could pull it off myself though. Didn't know it was a racial thing

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Melissa Wong
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Everything is racial in the USA, EVERYTHING. These are same people that s**t on whites if they eat Mexican or Chinese food.

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Kirsten Kerkhof
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Years ago I had a show and had my hair done in three French braids (because it was so short that a single or double braid wouldn't have worked). Well, guess what, apparently I was now appropriating corn row hair styles. I rolled my eyes so hard they almost popped out of my head.

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Sarah Sparkles
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some whit people have afro like curls. My white friend in high school had red hair just like that. If she took it down she had a huge fro. Not everyone has one type of hair per their race.

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Jo Choto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I really can't stand the whole ownership of hairstyles thing. There are a lot of very serious aspects of racism and historical colonialism that are affecting people the world over. Focusing on hairstyles is just stupid.

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Loty
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you extend this retarded logic further then you should ban people of african descend from wearing pants becuase it's not culturally appropriate.

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Catie Marie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I *love* making ppl take things to the logical extreme to make a point :)

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Troux
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love how unhelpful everyone was. I have enough time to talk down to you, but not enough to explain why.

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Catie Marie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think I've finally grasped that "do your research/educate yourself" really means "I have absolutely no way of proving my point, I just feel like being contrary". It's so infuriating

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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the worst part of it is that all the people saying she can't wear them cause she's white have a lot of upvotes and she gets like 3

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Ivana
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't believe in policing hair styles. Like dreadlocks, white people had dreadlocks throughout history. Double buns show up in black culture, Mexican culture, Chinese culture, Native American culture, etc. Honestly feel that borrowing from other cultures is a huge benefit of interconnections, like sharing foods, adopting traditions, styles, etc. Why do we have trade in the first place? It is to exchange goods and practices.

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kjorn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this is where we are now? just wear what you want for christ sake! don't let them bullies others. their life must suck so much if they have to bully other for their hairstyle.

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just another drone
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Does this mean black people are not allowed to use hair straighteners anymore?

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ZAPanda
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So I can answer this because I've asked African academics what they think. The answer is: Ideally they should not, because that signifies subordination to whiteness and therefore mental slavery.

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Gia SDP
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whatever happened to the melting pot of races? Can't we each pick and choose what suits our style and looks?

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Shawn Upchurch
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People can wear whatever hairstyle they want. This is so absurd. So you are a racist now if you wear your hair a certain way, wear certain clothes, eat certain foods?? These arent for you white people, educate yourself!

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Gogubaci
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

those kind of people need to be told to go f***k themselves directly and not engaged in a conversation

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lara
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These "woke" and "cultural appropriation" snarky remarks have now lost all relevance and make the people who say them appear to be nothing more than five year old children playing grown up. A bully is a bully.

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RoseTheMad
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am so f*****g sick of this hairstyle bullshit (and cultural "appropriation" in general, most times its actually APPRECIATION). Take braids for example? Vikings wore f*****g braids, the celts wore f*****g braids. They were white. Certain asian countries wore braids, plenty of european countries wore braids. It's a HAIRSTYLE and what someone does with their hair isn't going to harm a person regardless of their skin colour. A hairstyle isn't even CLOSE to racism, it's not like a girl wearing space buns or braids is going to suddenly join the KKK for f***s sake.

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the annoying theatre kid
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

my 9 year old neighbor has an afro and she's white so how do we know op doesn't have curly hsit

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Joshua Wachtenheim
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The people who are saying “white people are excluded from wearing space buns” are quite racist.

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Zuzanna Rzeszewska
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

By same logic, please don't appropriate my culture by wearing a tie, or dying your hair blonde. It's not your culture.

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Jill Bussey
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. There are very few examples of malicious cultural appropriation.

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Alex Smith
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pardon my ignorance but I dont get this at all. I have hair. I have long hair. There are so many rules on how to wear my hair. I am not allowed to braid it a certain way. I am not allowed to dread it. I am not allowed to wear buns (from this post above) but its hair. Braids are awesome. Small braids are awesome. But, you get these people that say educate yourself. I am on how to make my hair cute and out of my face.

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Zozo🤟
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love wearing my hair in space buns, and I am extremely white😂 I know that they are trying to help that girl, but it is kinda silly cuz lots of people wear their hair like this, not just black people

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ZAPanda
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

correct. The argument is it's cultural appropriation, or theft of culture. Same as you mustn't wear dia delos muertos stuff at halloween, or mexican hats, etc. Why? Because due to whtie colonial dominance over most of the planet, whites are defacto in power and can therefore appropriate or steal whatever they want, without consequence. So, now, the argument goes, a morally good white person would not do that as it is colonial theft, therefore, you should not. Etc. I have no opinion on this argument, just giving the argument.

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James016
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the image they just say don't wear this style if your white but don't give any reasons as to why. If you are going to demand something from someone, provide an explanation. Thankfully Andy in the comments has provided an explanation :)

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JelliTate
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it’s the hair’s texture that the people are referring to.

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Emmydearest
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm very well aware of cultural appropriation but those "space buns" or how they are called are definitely not a prerogative of black people. Just like dreadlocks or braids aren't. From Scandinavians to Ancient Greeks, many cultures sported dreadlocks, elaborate braids, lateral buns and so on. That being said, I'm very aware of the discriminations that black people had and still have to suffer about their hair ("not professional enough", etc...) but at a certain point some battles are more damaging than productive. For me it becomes quite risky, you know. We tear each other apart about a trivial technicality while we don't fight for much more vital matters. But i don't know, I clearly talk from a point of privilege, being a Caucasian European myself...

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Peter Buckley
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Common hairstyle amongst women throughout Europe, kind of a little Dutch girl trope.

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Brett Layton
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also give up any foods not native to your local region ( appropriating food / culture) , dont go out into the sun if youre pale( youre appropriating skin color) , and of course if youre not serbian or American youll need to give up your wifi and cell phone as well ( appropriating technology ).

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Christy Smith
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some ppl are so quick to scream CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, so they can be a f*****g SJW, look at me fighting for the little ppl, dumbass who gets off correcting everyone regardless of the situation.

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Izzy_
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Princes Leia's buns were actually inspired by Mexican female warriors called Adelitas. I'm Mexican and I think that's pretty cool. Anyone should be able to wear their hair how ever they choose.

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laura lee
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If white people can't have buns, then black people can't straighten their hair? Does that seem right?

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KT
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LOL no race owns any hair style, what a bunch of morons

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the annoying theatre kid
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

further in the thread someone was like when you get animal crossing they should ask your ethnic background so they can ban certain hairstyles for you and someone commented "imagine being like 8 and your nintendo switch asks you what your heritage is lmao"

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Katinka Min
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Over the decades, I have seen this hairstyle in countless Mangas - on Asian characters. Why do Americans always think they own every f*****g thing they have ever seen???

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Jessica Cifelli
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are they still space buns if they look like how Baby Spice of the Spice Girls had them in the 90s? If so then I have been guilty wearing them as a white girl. Oops

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Auntiecorn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You haven't been guilty no matter how you wore them. This hairstyle stuff is taken too much over the top and just plain b.s.

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Lily
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good grief, they've been around for ages. They're pigtails wrapped into buns. Just giving them a new name doesn't make them new.

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SobyKay
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This gives me rage, like when ppl shouted cultural appropriation at Justin Beiber for wearing dreads. Not even a Beebs fan but I was like let the boy wear his hair however and leave him alone! This cultural appropriation mislabelling has gone too far. I wore traditional skirts and long braids as a white woman in Africa and got nothing but compliments from the locals, they were even happy I enjoyed their common styles so much. Not once did anyone say I shouldnt dress like that or wear my hair like that b/c Im white. I swear some ppl are so bored they're just looking for a cause to get behind that isnt even a cause!

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j miller
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But I thought this hairstyle began in a galaxy far, far away?

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Wednesday
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay - please don't wear dreads because that was a Viking and Celtic hairstyle, okay... sheesh people. EVERY culture had buns. every. single. one.

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Olof T
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Don't wear them if your white" The amount of ignorance a person has to posses to not realize that's a racist statement. Then telling the other person they need to "educate themselves". Lol.

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Sandra Givens
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always assume the kids wearing these are Disney fans and emulating Mickey and Minnie. Those little double buns have been common in Japan and China for decades, if not centuries, so claiming them solely for Black hair is ignoring many of years of hairdressing history.

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Linny H
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If we're going there, please stop with the straightening of your hair, black women. I'm being facetious, wear your hair how you want to, it's hair. On a video game.

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Just saying
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It seems that in America there is a prejudice against natural and traditional black hairstyles, which is crazy. So anything that breaks this prejudice, such as white kids adopting braids or computer games like the one above, is a good thing. Not as ideal as society just saying 'you know what, wear your hair how you want, that's ok', but we know things don't work like that, so anything that normalises black hair do's so that eventually no-one even thinks to comment negatively on them has to help.

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lightbulb
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And to remind everyone that the op was a young girl and ended up getting death threats over this.

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Axolotl King
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I see the two sides of this: on one hand, people should be able to enjoy hairstyles regardless of skin tone, on the other, if it would be a cultural appropriation type thing (judging from the comments I'd say in this case it isn't) then that's valid

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Random Anon
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is like reading the contemporary equivalent of a boomer chat group. Both have lots of self-righteous imbeciles on high horses and both are just as entitled.

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Samara Morgan
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Black Americans are getting more and more entitled. Some of them hate whites so much they want to see us suffer and die.

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Jennifer Lee
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Appropriation only matters when you are making money off of someone else's culture and thereby taking a sale that should have gone to someone of that culture. For example, a non-Native American making and selling jewelry, beadwork, or pottery with designs that are specific to a tribe and their artifacts. Many communities depend upon sales of their native crafts so anything made and sold outside of that community by non-native people is essentially counterfeit.

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Veronica Romero
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Waaaa??? Biiitchhh I've been calling them f*****g Bear Ears for like 15 yrs.

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Jody Whitmarsh
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So melanin challenged people can't bind their hair because it's culturally divisive? That's like saying long blonde straight hair is ONLY for white people now.. y'all take those wigs off! How f$ing stupid! European nations have been knotting, braiding, and bunning their hair for millenia.. it's to keep it out of the way while working and preserve it when regular cleaning isn't available. And sometimes, it's even a ritual bind. The Irish have a thing called a lovers knit and it looks a lot like what people would consider a Black braid. Having more than two braids is very common for Scandinavian cultures. Side buns can be seen on women in old Dutch paintings... This craziness needs to stop already

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Gabrielle Martin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Obviously these people aren't familiar with the "Jew fro". My older brother had an afro for years. So what?

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Buzz
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm German and my white grandad had a natural afro. Y'all realize it's possible for white people to have natural afros right?

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Stephen Taylor
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Too many people are easily offended these days. And cultural appropriation is bull crap! Stay in your lane, and mind your own business!

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Linda Mermaid
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m a 66 y o white woman. I’m gonna deadlock my hair, dye it rainbow colors just to see how much shjt I can gather.

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Dodo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anyone notice all the commenters seem kinda white?

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Freder
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is such BS! This is as STUPID as people blasting WHITE kids/adults about having cornrows because "it's a black thing", women putting sticks in their hair because "it's an Asian thing", or other stupid s**t

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matthew owen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why do Americans think they're the only culture in the world?

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Your (kinda) friendly neighborhood Otaku
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So apparently we're now racially profiling a hair style? The hair style is so cute tho, but we really don't have to racially profile something just because it's common in one race :(

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ZAPanda
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The argument is it's cultural appropriation, or theft of culture. Same as you mustn't wear dia delos muertos stuff at halloween, or mexican hats, etc. Why? Because due to whtie colonial dominance over most of the planet, whites are defacto in power and can therefore appropriate or steal whatever they want, without consequence. So, now, the argument goes, a morally good white person would not do that as it is colonial theft. Etc. I have no opinion on this argument, just giving the argument. --- That being said, let me tell you what happens in Africa if you wear traditional African clothing or hairstyles (outside a university). You get greeted with ululation and excitement. Why? Because you're saying you want to be african.

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I f*****g hate this generation. Welcome to communism

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ZAPanda
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

no, it's not communism, it's virtue signalling. Two different things.

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Andy Acceber
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2 years ago

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They're not "space buns." They're afro puffs. It's a real hairstyle, and it has real cultural significance for Black people in the U.S. People from other countries may not know this, but in the U.S., we literally had tignon laws that required Black women to keep their hair covered in public. It had something to do with white women being convinced that Black women were trying to seduce white men with their hair -- and just good, ol' fashioned racism of white people trying to control Black bodies. Anyway, the tignon laws were in effect for generations and bred the myth of Black hair being dirty or unkempt. In the 1970s, there was a pushback against this myth. Black people reclaimed their natural hair. A lot of white people didn't like that. Even today, you'll hear examples of students getting in trouble for having dreadlocs or an employee being denied a raise due to their afro. These, like puffs, are natural Black hairstyles. They shound be understood, respected, and celebrated.

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Guillaume Derode
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly, I couldn't care less about whether or not a bun is an afro or a space bun. You don't own my hair and if you're offended by that, tough luck. I consider myself to be progressive, but there's a limit to nonsense. This is the biggest load of claptrap I've seen this week. And now I'm going to get dreadlocks, just to piss you off.

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