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Chinese dress at US prom wins support in China after internet backlash
South China Morning Post ^ | May 2, 2018 | Louise Moon

Posted on 05/02/2018 10:12:09 AM PDT by C19fan

Keziah Daum, an 18-year-old from Utah in the United States, who has no Chinese roots, was accused of “cultural appropriation” after posting photographs on Twitter that featured her in a traditional Chinese qipao, or cheongsam.

The dress symbolised a silent protest to promote gender equality after the fall of the dynasties and the beginning of the republican period in the early 1900s, and was worn during the 1919 reformist May Fourth Movement.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: appropriation; attire; beauty; cheongsam; chinesebow; cultural; culture; dress; left; may4thmovement; promdress; quipao; republicanperiod; women
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Chinese from China more sensible than our snowflakes here.
1 posted on 05/02/2018 10:12:09 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

The snowflakes are usually ABCs.


2 posted on 05/02/2018 10:14:21 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: C19fan

Is it too much to ask for people to lighten up?


3 posted on 05/02/2018 10:16:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

I think it is a beautiful dress.


4 posted on 05/02/2018 10:19:03 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


5 posted on 05/02/2018 10:21:08 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: C19fan

This girl demonstrated - never apologize, double down instead. Agitators never have a plan B when you tell them to piss off. But if you apologize, they’ve got fifty more ways to torture you.


6 posted on 05/02/2018 10:25:05 AM PDT by dead
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To: dfwgator
The heathen Chinee internet guys have a name for the faux offended pusscakes in America and Europe.

Baizuo.

Zhang Chenchen further defined the word "baizuo" with the definition "People who only care about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment" and “have no sense of real problems in the real world”;

They are hypocritical humanitarians who advocate for peace and equality only to “satisfy their own feeling of moral superiority”; they are “obsessed with political correctness” to the extent that they “tolerate backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism”;

They believe in the welfare state that “benefits only the idle and the free riders”; they are the “ignorant and arrogant westerners” who “pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours”.

Baizuo is used as an insult amongst Chinese netizens.

7 posted on 05/02/2018 10:25:21 AM PDT by bagster (Even pompous jackals love their mama.)
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To: C19fan

Chinese actually LOVE that Americans/Westerners are adopting aspects of their culture. For Chinese, it makes them proud that their culture offers something interesting and useful to the rest of the world.

You would have to explain to the average Chinese what the asinine concept of “cultural appropriation” means. And having done so - they will think Americans holding this view are insane.

Any American-Asian SJW leftist who complains against this has their head up their arse and is demonstrating that in fact, they actually know nothing about China.


8 posted on 05/02/2018 10:25:39 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: bagster

Those Chinese get it.


9 posted on 05/02/2018 10:27:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

Poll at website: Is it OK for non-Chinese people to wear cheongsams? 96% yes.


10 posted on 05/02/2018 10:28:08 AM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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Baizuo is used as an insult amongst Chinese netizens.

Baizuo literally means "white leftists" i.e.) entitled, phony, condescending leftists, who actually are very selfish.

11 posted on 05/02/2018 10:28:35 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: C19fan

Where was all this cultural foolishness, when in a Bruce Lee movie no less, a STRAWBERRY BLONDE is wearing the same kind of dress?!?!?!? (re: Enter The Dragon, scene with John Saxon and pretty strawberry blonde)

As far as i’m concerned, these WHINERS can “SIUTA”!!!


12 posted on 05/02/2018 10:29:52 AM PDT by Terry L Smith (.)
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To: bagster

Great definition.


13 posted on 05/02/2018 10:33:58 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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Chinese from China more sensible than our snowflakes here.

They actually have to work for a living. In a country of 1.3 billion people there's a lot of competition. Slacking in Mom's basement playing Xbox is not an option.


14 posted on 05/02/2018 10:35:15 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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They have a wonderful term for our snowflakes.

baizuo
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=baizuo

Baizuo (pronounced “bye-tswaw) is a Chinese epithet meaning naive western educated person who advocates for peace and equality only to satisfy their own feeling of moral superiority. A baizuo only cares about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment while being obsessed with political correctness to the extent that they import backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism.

The Chinese see the baizuo as ignorant and arrogant westerners who pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours.

Justin Trudeau’s worldview is a low-resolution caricature of an adult’s worldview.

“Oh yeah. He’s a total BAIZUO.”


15 posted on 05/02/2018 10:35:43 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: C19fan

So when my Son got his black belt in Tae Kwon Do, was he appropriating Korean culture?

I also admit that just the other night, we made stir-fry, IN A WOK, should I expect a knock at the door from the SJW Police?


16 posted on 05/02/2018 10:36:55 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
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To: ConservativeMind

I remember the Spiderman movie that came out a decade ago. Kirsten Dunst with orange-tinted hair in a Japanese silk kimono with chopsticks in her hair. For some reason that all worked, and was smoking hot.


17 posted on 05/02/2018 10:37:01 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ConservativeMind

Best worn by persons who are not overweight.


18 posted on 05/02/2018 10:37:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: C19fan

Flick’s Rule #42: The less important the issue, the more the MSM will focus attention.


19 posted on 05/02/2018 10:38:06 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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Personally I thought she looked beautiful in that dress.......I never thought someone could find racism in it.

Social media is destroying this country

20 posted on 05/02/2018 10:39:11 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Mother nature is a serial killer......)
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