• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    So by that logic, a Japanese person shouldn’t wear a cowboy hat, or play a saxophone or violin?

    Why has this exaggerated complaining about cultural appropriation become so common?

    She can wear a Kimono if she is white or black or whatever.

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      That is one thing that I hope goes away soon.

      It’s almost always cultural appreciation, not appropriation! Please try my culture’s foods, wear our clothes and watch our movies. Ask me about how I lived, what parts of my culture signify and where they came from. This is how we bridge cultural gaps, not by isolating and gatekeeping!

      I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. - M K Gandhi

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      There’s another one accusing someone of being a nazi because his Twitter name was ø something. The guy was Scandinavian and his name began with that letter. I’ll see if I can find it.

      • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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        Lol. Wow. Wait until those dumbasses find out there’s even people who worship old Norse gods who - get this - aren’t nazi scum and actually just want to follow their ancestors’ religion…

        These jerks need to get a life and stop appropriating cultural symbols and labeling anything vaguely Nordic as nazi symbolism… show me Armenian runes or a fucking swastika, or it’s just a normal religious symbol.

        It’s no different from calling anyone wearing a cross a satanist because an inverted cross is a satanic symbol…

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    Cool, I’ve never seen this one with the actual passport photo. That hair and smile though… Based on a quick google that’s not approved for a Japanese passport photo.

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        I was looking at this link which mentions no smiling and hair away from the face and forehead, but yeah yours is probably more accurate.

        My daughter has a similar hair style and for her Norwegian passport she had to tie the bangs with a hair clip before they accepted it. Somehow I would have thought Japan would be just as strict.

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          Yeah, seems weird to me that they’d accept that as a passport photo in Japan. There’s a whole pdf of unacceptable photos on this government page, and includes not only a smile, but also bangs over your forehead, not exposing your ears, etc.