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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... I think you blew off your whole magazine on that last burst!
“The blonde, blue-eyed white woman is reportedly married to a Maori man”
Well, you could say she has a little Maori in her.
Boom! You win the internet today.
I have your answer right here...
Lol, it looks like she just got done blowing a Smurf!
The ladder of chaos.
She looks ridiculous.
Roger that.
The tattoo is ugly, and the concept of “cultural appropriation” is stupid. I’m okay with the two sides fussing at each other.
I hope the complainers aren’t using toilets.
Those were invented by the English, and it’s cultural appropriation every time they sit down on one.
Yeah but her native captors gave her that without her consent.
The Maori are not the only indigenous people who’s women get chin tattoos. Some of the Alaskan tribes, as well as some of the plains Indians, also do.
White players do the Haka on NZ teams. So............?
Looks like some type of Mentat from Dune.
“It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.”
Piter De Vries after drinking the sapho juice.
Hey, now. She’s self identifying as Maori so it’s all good.
I didn’t know they did tattoos with an ugly stick in New Zealand!
You might want to try posting that again, in case someone missed it the first 9 times.
I thought if her too.
People responding don’t know her story, how she didn’t do this willingly.
Some do and related the story well.
Yep...and my understanding is that her captors did it to her!
They appropriated their culture all over her lower jaw.
Anyone in the world other than from the US who wears a pair of Levi Jeans is appropriating our culture and I am offended and want them to stop.
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