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[that-little-bisexual-mess]

Ilvermorny houses aesthetic : Pukwudgie (1)

[cramberrypie]

houses and None-Mag

[orbliviaet]

Queenie Goldstein aesthetics by @narglesandlionhats

[radioartifact]

Strange Talk S3E25 Ep.95 Live Stories from the Frogman Festival

This week Alyx and Robin have stories collected and recording live at the Frogman Festival II! A guest kicks us off with a shadow man story, then we're joined by Noelle from Creepy Confidential Podcast to talk about her days as a paranormal investigator while investigating Starvation Heights, Hunter regales us with a time he saw a Pukwudgie looking through the window, a retired air force employee tells us about UFO reports that would come in, someone going by the pseudonym Lex Loser tells us a harrowing sleep paralysis story about a cat and a shadow man, Danielle tells us about a person disappearing in plain daylight, and then one last guest tells us a few stories including a UFO burning a tree down and some Dayton UFO fleet sightings. Frogman Festival was truly incredible, and we can't recommend it enough! Huge thank you to Jeff Craig for putting it together, and also a huge thank you to every one who choose to speak with us!

[diced-onions]

Would just like you to know that your “the pandemic is over. No it isn’t. Yes❤️” addition made me laugh until I couldn’t breathe at 1 AM last night

afshdBDVBDBDB i’m glad i could bring u some giddy joy in these trying times

[thejoonmoon]

OHHHHHH OKAY This does help a lot, especially with clearing up the difference between Native Chinese opinions and Chinese-American opinions. I didn't understand why they were so different! I then thought about the kilt example: I don't care, because Chinese people have never systemically hurt Irish/Scottish people. But thinking about if they did do that, and then decided to wear the traditional clothes, I would get hella mad. I understand better now. Thank you for your time and kindess!

that’s exactly it!!!!!!

[thejoonmoon]

Yo I have a question about the white girl in a prom dress! Okay and this is coming from the whitest girl ever. I'm not trying to be an asshole at all, just trying to educate myself/understand! When does it stop becoming appreciation and start becoming appropriation? Like- everyone knows that's a Chinese dress, just by looking at it. I thought appropriation was taking something and calling it your own- say, if she took the dress n was like "yeah... so this is a western family dress."

I thought that was appropriation. I’m American, but I’m scottish and irish heritage. If I saw a chinese girl or a chinese-american in traditional highland dress or kilts or whatnot, I wouldn’t get mad, but if she was trying to pass it off as Chinese THEN i’d get pissed. That example isn’t to invalidate your feelings! I’m just confused on then what exactly appropriation is. Really am not trying to be rude, just want to learn. And I saw a ton of Native Chinese people complimenting her, so then

how does that work? Again, not to invalidate your feelings or anyone elses! I’m just a bit lost. I hope this was respectful

Hi hi!! Cultural appropriation is when you intrude on some aspect of a foreign culture (such as clothes or dances) without having an affiliation or true understanding of that culture and take it for your own. It also has to do with your place and power over that culture. So in the case of the white girl wearing the qipao/cheongsam to prom, she was clearly appropriating the Chinese culture because she herself was not Chinese, did not know Chinese, had Chinese family, and had no understanding of the significance of the Chinese traditional dress besides for the fact that it’s pretty. She bought the dress from a vintage shop and did not have the invitation of an actual Chinese person to engage in that aspect of their culture. East-Asians wear their traditional garb to honor their ancestors and to celebrate the new year and have to refrain from wearing it in public to avoid ridicule. So who is she to wear it so freely? Does this make sense? It’s like owning a house and having someone barge into it without your permission and claiming it as their own with “it’s pretty” or “houses are meant to be shared!” as their sole reasoning.

Also in the case of the mainland Chinese people complimenting her, here is something that I said in response to a similar question: 

This has to do with the context of the situation. The white girl wore a qipao in America, where minorities/poc were persecuted for refusing to assimilate to western culture (EG: Native Americans and Japanese Internment camps, in addition to many more) and still face ridicule/discrimination for showing pride in their culture to this day.

People from the mainland countries have never experienced the things that their diaspora suffered from because they’re from the mainland- where they are NOT minorities of a population and thus have never suffered the marginalization that poc go through in America. And so, it is easier for them to view a white person/non-asian wearing a qipao as cultural appreciation rather than appropriation bc they do not see the historical/societal context that the diaspora view it with

Here are some other answers of mine that might clear things up: x x x

Hope this helps!!