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I feel like non-black people having dreadlocks or box braids can't be counted as cultural appropriation. To appropriate a culture means that you're taking something from it and either claiming it as your own, or imo just using an aspect when it shouldn't be used; I always like to use the analogy of wearing a wedding dress to a McDonalds even though you're not getting married. What you're wearing has a specific use, and while the dress may be very pretty you look like a dumb dumb by diminishing it's true meaning and what it's really supposed to be used for. That being said, dreadlocks and box braids have never really been used for a certain religious/traditional/sacred purpose. And if you live in America (or have access to the internet) you can literally see everyday black people wearing them like any other hairstyle, and if you asked them why they even have dreadlocks or box braids 9/10 it'll be something relating to how they just always wanted it. Nothing about it being specifically to their culture. So I never understood why SOME (because you all love to generalize and I've seen that) get so upset when they see non-black people wearing it.
And please don't give me that, "BUT WHEN WE WEAR IT!" thing because have you ever thought that maybe instead of attacking the people wearing the hairstyle, you should attack the people adhering/enforcing the double standard?
P.S Black culture isn't one big monolith and neither are black people. You can be black and have different ethnic backgrounds (like yours truly~) which contain different cultures in and of its self, so when you accuse a non-black person of cultural appropriation be sure to include which culture it's coming from and if YOU YOURSELF know enough about its history (because believe it or not black people had a history before slavery). Just saying, "ITS A PART OF BLACK CULTURE BECAUSE THE SLAVES" shows already that you're extremely ignorant about black people.
P.S.S Just want to say that I'm only one black person out of a million. I don't speak for every single black person, and I respect those who do find non-black people wearing dreadlocks/box braids offensive. I, and neither do any of you, have no right to tell people how to feel or to invalidate their feelings on a certain issue. Thanks.
And please don't give me that, "BUT WHEN WE WEAR IT!" thing because have you ever thought that maybe instead of attacking the people wearing the hairstyle, you should attack the people adhering/enforcing the double standard?
P.S Black culture isn't one big monolith and neither are black people. You can be black and have different ethnic backgrounds (like yours truly~) which contain different cultures in and of its self, so when you accuse a non-black person of cultural appropriation be sure to include which culture it's coming from and if YOU YOURSELF know enough about its history (because believe it or not black people had a history before slavery). Just saying, "ITS A PART OF BLACK CULTURE BECAUSE THE SLAVES" shows already that you're extremely ignorant about black people.
P.S.S Just want to say that I'm only one black person out of a million. I don't speak for every single black person, and I respect those who do find non-black people wearing dreadlocks/box braids offensive. I, and neither do any of you, have no right to tell people how to feel or to invalidate their feelings on a certain issue. Thanks.