I have 3a hair I'm of mixed races and I grew up getting my hair braided

I am now well into my adult years and haven't had a protective style in years

I want to wear my hair in a protective style because I had a big chop after my baby was born and I'm trying to grow it out and for it to remain healthy and keep heat away from it

Also my hair gets tangled and matted very easily and it's a pain to take care of at times - I don't have the time as a mom to do an in depth hair care routine

I am hesitant because although I'm of mixed ethnicities and have curly hair I don't want to be culturally appropriating I don't want to offend anyone either

Thoughts?

https://youtu.be/GKdiOSrv0wU

Racist white woman sitting in the blue mercedes accuses black man of touching a child he never went near!! To clarify i wasn't accused in the video, she waited for me to leave and then called anyone that would listen and accused me!

Is this table racist?

What do you think when you see a dude with shaggy long hair…

In 1963, 22 elderly patients at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn, New York City were injected with live cancer cells by Chester M. Southam, who in 1952 had done the same to prisoners at the Ohio State Prison, to "discover the secret of how healthy bodies fight the invasion of malignant cells". The administration of the hospital attempted to cover the study up, but the New York medical licensing board ultimately placed Southam on probation for one year. Two years later, the American Cancer Society elected him as their vice president.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical\_human\_experimentation\_in\_the\_United\_States

Four years ago, my 2 1/2-year-old baby nephew who I used to babysit on weekends was brutally murdered and I had to go to the Coroner's Office to ID him. Four days ago, I made a post about it on Facebook because it was his fifth posthumous birthday. This POS sorry excuse for a human being saw my post and decided to do some Internet sleuthing and found a news article with the details of his murder and proceeded to make disrespectful comment and laugh about my nephew's murder. I realized I was getting nowhere by telling her that she's a scumbag, so I finally had to just block her.

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Here's a perfect example of how systemic racism can occur. On an ABC7 Sarasota story posted on Facebook about a young African-American boy who graduated from community college with four diplomas at the age of 13, this racist woman who lives in Sarasota posts this comment. She claims on her profile to work for Pearson as a scorer of state and college essay exams. If that is true, I fear she may have a racial bias in her scoring.

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HI’m white w/ curly hair, I think like 3a(?) but it might be curlier I’m not sure lol. I just cut my hair really short recently and b/c of that it’s hard to find hairstyles that work w/ hair my length, especially ones that cover most of my hair for bad hair days. I saw an idea of a head wrap/turban low bun, but it was almost all Black women in the pictures and I’ve been researching trying to figure out if it would be OK or not for me to do this as a yt person? And if not does anybody have any other hairstyle ideas? 😊 I’ve asked this on a few subs lol, just trying to get as many opinions as possible :)

Hello! I was told to come here after asking in r/curlyhair. To start off, I'm sorry if I offend anyone, it is not my intention. I am just trying to educate myself.

I am half Hispanic and half white. My mom's side is entirely Ecuadorian and my dad's side is entirely Romanian; quite literally 50/50. My hair is different in different spots, I would say is 3A and 3B with some strands of 3C but not much.

The problem is that my skin color is very white. I've grown up on my mom's side and so my brother and I, being the white children in the family, are made fun of a lot for being a "ghost" lmao. My Hispanic family members tell me that I am allowed to wear cornrows, but I understand that it can be offensive to people because of my skin color. They tell me that I am being ridiculous and brush me off.

I would like to use the hairstyle, I do think it's very pretty and can help me manage my hair during midterm and finals week. In no way do I plan on promoting that I "created" the hairstyle (as I've seen others do like wtf) and I do understand the history behind it being a protective hairstyle for those with darker skin.

I feel as if that, although my skin color is white, it doesn't dismiss my heritage and bloodline, but I do understand if it would be inappropriate for me to wear the hairstyle.

So what do you think? Thank you to any who prove insight. ❤️

I was just gifted these earrings and want to check in whether or not wearing hoops this size is offensive to the Latino/a culture

Please help

I'm just starting to date a woman I really like and only have one sore point with her, which is her hair. She has short bad locks and I don't think she sees any cultural appropriation with them. My main question is how I should move forward. Do I confront her about it? Or just see it as a red flag and stop pursuing her?

Between cultural appropriation, cultural exchange, and cultural appreciation? Also I’m a millennial who was raised in a very culturally appropriation time period. MTV used to do it all the time before it became uncool to do it.

I have wavy hair and mu baby hairs are constantly frizzy and sticking out. I use gel but they don't seem to hold with the rest of my hair. I was considering laying them so they behave, but I'm not sure if that's up there with wearing box braids and corn rows if you're not Black. I'm Latina with no known Black heritage.

If I shouldn't lay may baby hairs, does anyone have advice on how to make them behave?

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Hello! I am a Filipino teenager who has I think a 2a curls, however, my curls used to be a tad bit curlier than that. For the past few months it’s either straight-ish or a 2a curl. I think I used to be a 2b curl and I would like to restore it. I love my curls so much and it is my favourite thing about my hair, how can I get it back? Also, would it be cultural appropriation to wear bonnets? I heard that it protects your hair from frizzing and other damages to your hair, and I thought that maybe wearing a bonnet could help restore my curls back but I don’t want to offend anyone. My parents doesn’t really know much about taking care of curly hair or hair in general, so please if you have anything that would educate me, tell me! I would love to share those informations too in the future. Thank you! :D

Cultural appropriation is a hot buzzword these days. Like "hipster", it's something people disagree on how to define, but no one wants to have applied to them. I'm going to play lawnchair sociologist and give you all my hot take.

Cultural appropriation is the same kind of sin as plagiarism: Seeking originality points for something that isn't original to you, and in the process, failing to give due credit and due respect to the actual source. The antidote to CA is a genuine, personal, human connection, based on mutual kindness and respect, with the source of the item in question.

If I make friends with someone from a very different cultural background than me, and they freely offer me a piece of their culture and encourage me to embrace it as a token of friendship, this is really the opposite of cultural appropriation. When this happens, it comes naturally to seek a deeper understanding, in your friend's own words, about what this piece of culture means to them and their community. In this kind of exchange, it should naturally occur to you to run your intended use of this gift by your friend in advance, to heed any misgivings or discomfort in their response, and to take seriously any alternative suggestions they give for how to best use it.

In true cultural appropriation, this human connection with the item's source just isn't there. You adopt and use a foreign piece of culture just because you like it superficially, or think it will give you social status points as something new, different, or edgy. Lost in the shuffle is any consideration or curiosity as to who came up with it, what context it arose in, and what it means to its creators and keepers.

There's nothing inherently wrong with becoming fascinated with things that don't originate from your own culture. Cultural exchange is both good and inevitable. But I recommend that early on, this fascination motivates a desire to connect with the people of that culture, and allow them to teach you about the thing you're fascinated with. If you're humble and a good listener, and genuinely regard these people as equal and dignified human beings, you're unlikely to use the item in a way that's an affront to anyone reasonable.

So what if someone who doesn't know me at all notices me using a piece of culture that clearly didn't originate with me and mine, and accuses me of cultural appropriation? I'd just calmly state that I got it from someone I've been friends or neighbors with, who is from its culture of origin, and in the course of our relationship, it rubbed off on me. I like it, and like how it reminds me of this friend and the experiences we had together. Pretty disarming, and wholly reasonable. This kind of response, delivered kindly and calmly, will make anyone looking for reasons to be outraged and offended look pretty foolish.

One of the only things people can agree on about what constitutes a hipster, is that being an early adopter, on the cutting edge of trends not yet even underway and savvy to things few others have even heard of, is the name of the game. Social status in hipster circles is novelty and obscurity as a competitive sport. It logically follows that people who do hipsterdom right, are very socially smart. They are hyper aware and in control of the image they project to others. Because what they mine for is not just the novel and obscure, but the socially palatable and potentially catchy novel and obscure. Though they might be well-meaning, getting to know the creators and context of the culture they borrow often ends up getting short shrift, because they're spending so much effort peacocking their newly found pieces of culture for their fellow hipsters, for social status. It's the combination of elitism, lack of human connection, and use of the cultural item solely to chase status, that invites righteous indignation and accusations of cultural appropriation. Because these hipsters are committed to the hipster game, their only choice is to harden their hearts toward these accusers. And the culture war between the woke and the hip only escalates.

It bothers me that things have gotten to the point where many people, especially the highly sensitive, actively avoid letting anything from another culture rub off on them, even when completely natural and legitimate, for fear of being accused of cultural appropriation. Because no one, and no group of people, have exclusive use of any piece of culture. That's unenforceable and doomed to failure, and promotes tribalism and factionalism, not the cross-cultural exchange which is an indelible part of the human experience.

My kid is almost 12 and together he and I have been playing the Spiderman games on PlayStation. I asked him if he wanted to be Spiderman for Halloween and I know he’s partial to Miles Morales. He has T-shirts with miles on it and he’s a younger version so I can understand why he’s drawn to him. But with Miles being biracial Puerto Rican and African American is it appropriation for him to dress up as him being a little white kid. I’m leaning toward no because of our family stance on cosplay and I fully support cross gender and cross racial cosplays. But I know the world doesn’t know me and it’s a different beast than when I was trick or treating.