• Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
    181·
    9 months ago

    My Culture is not your prom dress 2: electric boogaloo.

    As a chinese, you’re welcome to do so. It’s Lunar new year, there’s nothing special or specific about it. Pop a beer, play firework, or whatever. Make up your culture for celebrate the new year, that’s how culture is born! There’s not even a standard for it in China, different region have different way to celebrate. And each household even have their own way to celebrate! How is any of this gatekeeping make sense i don’t know.

    It’s so sad to see a melting pot now call for separation.

    • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      571·
      9 months ago

      I do think it’s important that people know what it is they’re celebrating, but yeah like my local Chinese community always does a lunar new year celebration that is open to everyone. I think a lot of Chinese people (and other communities that celebrate the lunar new year, like Okinawan Korean Vietnamese and many others) see open celebration as creating more appreciation for and understanding of their culture.

    • Gabu@lemmy.ml
      22·
      9 months ago

      More importantly: a celebration that you can get to by just looking at the bloody sky.

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOP
      105·
      9 months ago

      Probably about that Karen-level right there.

      Right about where you’re that desperate for attention, it isn’t your place to say and it helps literally nobody.

      Just about that pathetic.

  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
    99·
    9 months ago

    These people want to show, so hard, that they care but in the end they don’t realize they are practically pushing for segregation.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      521·
      9 months ago

      This is what happens most of the time when people scream cultural appropriation. The problem is that people without understanding of the terms use the terms every day. This leads to scenarios like the one above, or where someone is getting offended you’re enjoying a cultural food, or listening to a specific kind of music. Appreciating other cultures isn’t appropriation.

      • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        9 months ago

        Exactly, appropriating means to take and pretend you invented it or created it. Interacting with culture or enjoying other people’s culture isn’t harmful and if these people actually went to other countries they’d realize their people WANT to share their culture.

        • neptune@dmv.socialEnglish
          71·
          9 months ago

          Yeah I agree that there is a TAKE vs a SHARE.

          Some of the reason cultural appropriation is a bad thing is due to capitalism. Taking something, even symbolically, for profit, is different than learning, experiencing and sharing.

      • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
        16·
        9 months ago

        I remember someone giving a huge speech on…tumblr probably it sounds like something that would come from that shithole…that white people learning Spanish was cultural appropriation.

      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
        6·
        9 months ago

        That’s why people who do understand the terms need to call the people who don’t out at every opportunity, but they won’t do that because of “solidarity.”

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOP
      223·
      9 months ago

      Hundred. Percent. It’s astounding, I am astounded at the number of messages I have received as a result of this post exactly mirroring the less desired sentiment you’ve described.

      But it’s cool, they can go f*** themselves, there’s like 2 billion people wholesomely celebrating this holiday in defiance of bigotry, so it’s not a real problem.

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
      192·
      9 months ago

      That’s why I laugh at anyone who unironically says “Cultural Appropiation”

      I wonder if they realize that if cultures didn’t borrow from other cultures we wouldn’t have anime or instant ramen.

    • Ergifruit [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      9 months ago

      plus imagining thinking that, as a white person, you have the ability to decide who gets to celebrate what, while speaking over Asian people. like that was a bigotry 360°; you went right around to being racist again lmao

  • skeeter_dave@sh.itjust.works
    82·
    9 months ago

    Nah, as a cracker ass American I think I will celebrate Lunar New Year and immerse myself in the lore and customs of people I share this plant with because history rocks my fucking socks.

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    381·
    9 months ago

    Nothing friendly about gatekeeping, it’s just a patronizing way to be a giant fucking bitch no one wants to be around.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
    37·
    9 months ago

    Chinatowns and Mayors of metropolitan cities with Chinatowns : Here’s the schedule of Lunar new year celebrations, come along and enjoy the culture!

    This gatekeeping idiot :

  • ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone
    251·
    9 months ago

    I feel like her reply is just as likely to be to call him a race traitor or whatever. It’s hard to reason with people who gatekeep that hard

  • unreasonabro@lemmy.world
    18·
    9 months ago

    “friendly reminder that if you’re white, you’d better be uptight to the point of constipation at all times, except for moments of stress-induced diarrhea”