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That baby making music

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Everyone Has A Story

"Kubo and the Two Strings." A creative and imaginative stop motion film.

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS MOVIE REVIEW

[humans-of-seoul]

“I developed sociophobia in high school. Kids who I didn’t even know would ridicule me behind my back. They’d stand right behind me and say, ‘She didn’t have any friends in middle school and now she’s acting all outgoing in high school to make friends,’ knowing that I could hear them. One of the people badmouthing about me was a friend who I used to help in history class and had wanted to study hard together… I didn’t know why this was happening, so I thought it was my fault and blamed myself. I eventually became afraid of everyone. Even when people just passed by and glanced over, I felt like they were all laughing at me. It got so bad that I could barely order food at a restaurant – one time, I even thought, ‘Maybe I should just go jump off the roof.’ I was having such a hard time that I went to the counselor’s office for two years. Back then, the counselor told me, ‘There are far more people who love you than people who judge you.’ Those words are still fresh on my mind.“

“고등학생 때 대인 기피증에 걸렸었어요. 저도 모르는 애들이 그냥 저를 뒤에서 욕하더라고요. ‘쟤는 중학교 때 친구 없다가 고등학교 와서 친구 사귀려고 활발한 척 하네’라고 제 뒤에 서서 들리게 욕을 했어요. 저를 같이 욕하던 한 친구는 제가 1학년 때 역사도 알려주고 같이 공부 열심히 하자고 하던 친구였는데…이유도 모르겠어서 그냥 전 제 잘못이라고 생각하고 자책만 했어요. 그러다 보니 나중에는 모든 사람들이 다 무서워지더라고요. 그냥 지나가면서 저를 슥 한번 쳐다 봐도 다 저를 비웃는 것 같았어요. 음식점에서 주문도 잘 못할 정도로 심했었고 한 번은 진짜 ‘옥상에 올라갈까’하는 생각도 하게 되더라고요. 너무 힘들어서 2년 간 상담실을 다녔어요. 그 때 상담 선생님이 저한테 이런 얘길 해주시더라고요. ‘너를 시샘하는 사람들보다 너를 사랑하는 사람들이 훨씬 많을 거야.’라고…아직도 그 말이 생생히 기억나요.”

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Trevor breaks down the presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

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[africansouljah]

Boyz n the Hood (1991)

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From Black Hippy to To Pimp a Butterfly

[fuckyeahthenotoriousbig]

[camewiththeframe]

[hitrecord]

“Counting Stars”

[kimmyvondoom]

Ya Mama.

[ginzers]

Teach children that this is not ok

[princess-roxxi-remade-deactivat]

Teach children that there’s nothing wrong with this

[ginzers]

I’m really not understanding why you think cultural appropriation would be ok, unless you are assuming that the girl in the picture is part Japanese.

[princess-roxxi-remade-deactivat]

Yellow face yet she’s using white makeup in the traditional style but okay.

Cultural appropriation isn’t a thing, hon. ☺️ Cultures should be shared by all means.

[ginzers]

I disagree. The makeup is clearly reflective of traditional Geisha makeup which is yellowface and therefore racist. Furthermore, the girl is wearing a kimono, a garment that has for ages carried cultural significance. Assuming that she is white how can you think this is ok? And cultural appropriation isn’t a thing? What rock do you live under? I suggest you educate yourself on the differences between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

I am japanese, in japan at this very moment. The only people who think culture shouldnt be shared are racists like you.

A vast majority of Japanese people actually enjoy other people making an effort to spread and enjoy japanese culture, and encourage it. Many make businesses in deliberately taking pictures of people in kimono. A common omiage (gift) for foreigners from japanese people is traditional japanese things such as kimonos, tea seats, shisa dog statues, ect.

And to top it off, basically 80 percent of japanese customs, traditions, and food, came from other countries. Japanese is an integration of different cultures, like america. Japan takes influences from places like korea, china, russia, and europe. If japan stuck to itself, there would be no tempura, japanese tea, tea ceremonies, kabuki, japanese bread, japanese curry, j- pop, anime, cars, or modern fishing techniques. The picture is not “yellow face” they are not making fun of asians. In fact, it looks like they put extra care and research into their work.

The only reason that you have a problem with this is because that little girl is white and you know that it is acceptable on tumblr to crap all over white people. The only racist here is you.

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Rekt

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b t f o

[jennaavh-deactivated20160117]

Dang she got shut down.

[dilfweed]

Damn I’ve never hit reblog so fast in my entire fucking life

[daissychainss-blog]

Daaaaamn

[semiauto14]

Pew pew pew

[lifeiscaulscott]

I reblog this every time I see it

[littleblackchat]

I live in Japan and I’d like to back up this sentiment. 

Recently a museum in Boston came under a lot of fire for allowing visitors to wear a ‘kimono’ (it was featuring a painting my Monet of a girl – a white girl – in a kimono, and the museum had replicas made that guests of ANY RACE could wear to mimic the painting, Pageant-of-the-Masters style). After protests and heated debate, the museum closed the event.

I was living in Japan at the time, and out of all the *actual* Japanese people I asked, not a single one was offended by the event. Rather, they were excited that people half a world away were showing interest in their culture, and were sad that visitors could no longer enjoy the event.

This party, though somewhat silly in application, is an attempt at experiencing and appreciating another culture. The mom who put this together is not an expert on Japan, but she did her best. She got a lot of things right: there are few things Japan loves more than tea, Pocky, and sakura. 

Where do you draw the line for who is “allowed” to learn about Japan? If the girl were of Japanese descent, would that make it ok (even though her citizenship would be the same as the girl from the photo)? If one of the girl’s parents were from Japan, then would it be ok? 

Are you only allowed to make pizza if you live in Italy? If you’re an Italian immigrant? How do we decide these things??

You can’t say you want to dismantle racism and then in the next breath make rules – based on race – for who people can wear, try, or eat, especially when the intent is obviously to have fun experiencing a culture (as opposed to having fun by making fun of a race or culture, like blackface does). 

When you tell people they can only experience things ‘meant for their race’, it totally smacks of segregation to me and I can’t stand it. As someone who (obviously) loves Japan, I say let people learn about it, let people experience it, let people appreciate it. You don’t have to know every single thing about a culture to enjoy it.

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[henryismywaifu]

fucking people got owned is what, fuck i hate how people say you cant do shit when culture should be shared and is shared its how it grows and changes through fucking generations itS HOW YOU LEARN about the world and just fucking, tumblr fucking stupid like 70% of the dam time

[jdbsmg-star]

this new light

[stonedkitsune-deactivated201705]

I’m glad that’s how Japanese people feel but let’s remember to respect the other cultures who don’t want to share but to reclaim their heritage.

[dynastylnoire]

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[blackfashion]

While this might not be offensive to Japanese people it’s highly offensive to some Japanese-Americans. Japanese Americans and most Asian Americans relationship with racism and racists differs highly from that of Japanese people in Japan or others Asians in their respected countries, because they live in countries where mostly everyone except for tourist look like them, they are happy to share their cultures with whoever. Now in America where some white people are still openly racists toward Asian Americans, this could be seen as offensive for a plethora of reasons.

[unclewalk-deactivated20190218]

This is a very interesting read.

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Emma Watson + Photoshoots [insp.]