Posted on 05/25/2018 1:06:16 PM PDT by simpson96
A woman from New Zealand is facing backlash after photos of her chin tattoo began making waves earlier this week.
Sally Anderson, a life coach, reportedly got the tattoo as an homage to New Zealand's indigenous Maori culture, but some are saying it's offensive on the grounds of cultural appropriation. The tattoo, known as a "moko kauae," has since sparked a debate across the island nation, the BBC reported.
The blonde, blue-eyed white woman is reportedly married to a Maori man who has a full facial tattoo, and she claims her body art symbolizes strength after surviving a gang rape as a teenager in the 1980s, according to News.com.au
She also got the moko "a few years ago" by a Maori artist, the BBC reports.
The backlash began after Anderson added photos of herself with the moko to her life-coaching business' website and social media pages. Critics have since accused Anderson of trying to get attention and boost her business, called Evolved Leadership, with the design.
“I do think there’s a level of cultural appropriation and I do think there’s a level of white privilege that’s being displayed here, and I think we need to be really cautious about that,” Mera Lee-Penehira, an associate professor at Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, a New Zealand university, told BBC.
"The carvings that go on the face or head are also particularly sacred,” Dr. Lee-Penehira said of the “business branding.”
“It’s not acceptable … You can only have it if you have a genealogy that is Maori,” she added.
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Liberals should stop using modern medicine since it’s mostly appropriated from Jewish culture!
So it’s all diversity, diversity, diversity. You need to immerse yourself in other cultures. You need to appreciate the great things other things have to offer.
You know you’re right, the native New Zealand culture is quite admirable. I quite like it. I like it so much I’m going to get a chin tattoo.
CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!!!
“Cultural Appropriation.”
A phrase used exclusively by idiots and morons.
LOL. She looks like a real hot "party girl"!! </sarc>
I'd like to see her plotted on the hot/crazy matrix.
A "before" plot overlaid with an "after" plot would be interesting—the "hot" coordinate goes down, the "crazy" coordinate goes way up!.
OOH, good point. We are like the decorator crabs of the human race...
“The blonde, blue-eyed white woman”
$h*t on any news media that uses its resources to divide people and to set them against one another.
$h*t on any phony “professor” who condemns someone for being White. (That’s what it is, it’s not about “cultural appropriation.”)
Oh SHUT THE F**K UP.
Idiots who scrabble their faces with idiotic tattoos or whatever are looking for attention. Unfortunately, the attention they get is negative and I, as an observer, have the right to ridicule them for their ignorance.........So There!
I don’t object to ridiculing. But the hag isn’t objecting because she thinks the tats are ridiculous, she’s objecting because they’re “too sacred” for whitey.
Dear Abby: I don’t want to have to worry about “cultural appropriation” accusations. Since I’m of German heritage, am I OK with the swastika tattooed on my forehead? I know it’s an ancient symbol, but we probably killed off all those folks already.
Dear Abby: I don’t want to have to worry about “cultural appropriation” accusations. Since I’m of German heritage, am I OK with the swastika tattooed on my forehead? I know it’s an ancient symbol, but we probably killed off all those folks already.
Dear Abby: I don’t want to have to worry about “cultural appropriation” accusations. Since I’m of German heritage, am I OK with the swastika tattooed on my forehead? I know it’s an ancient symbol, but we probably killed off all those folks already.
Dear Abby: I don’t want to have to worry about “cultural appropriation” accusations. Since I’m of German heritage, am I OK with the swastika tattooed on my forehead? I know it’s an ancient symbol, but we probably killed off all those folks already.
Dear Abby: I don’t want to have to worry about “cultural appropriation” accusations. Since I’m of German heritage, am I OK with the swastika tattooed on my forehead? I know it’s an ancient symbol, but we probably killed off all those folks already.
Dear Abby: I don’t want to have to worry about “cultural appropriation” accusations. Since I’m of German heritage, am I OK with the swastika tattooed on my forehead? I know it’s an ancient symbol, but we probably killed off all those folks already.
Dear Abby: I don’t want to have to worry about “cultural appropriation” accusations. Since I’m of German heritage, am I OK with the swastika tattooed on my forehead? I know it’s an ancient symbol, but we probably killed off all those folks already.
Dear Abby: I don’t want to have to worry about “cultural appropriation” accusations. Since I’m of German heritage, am I OK with the swastika tattooed on my forehead? I know it’s an ancient symbol, but we probably killed off all those folks already.
I’m so effing sick of these people.
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Then excuse me for my misinterpretation of your post.........
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