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Originally Posted by transplant99
Right...to the majority of them, we absolutely should.
I will ask this question...how does one dress up as another of a different color, without being that color? Or should dressing up as another race be shamed all together? Can black people dress as famous Asians for fun? Can indigenous dress as Middle Easterners for fun? Should Michael Jackson have been scorned for becoming lighter?
I honestly have no idea any more. Or maybe I never did.
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It's easy to dress up as Prince or Micheal Jackson without painting your face. In fact if you have to paint your face black to make your costume work perhaps you need to rethink that costume because if they are unidentifiable by anything but blackness you aren't working very hard.
I think there is an interesting question around generic vultures appropriation and Halloween costumes if Cowboy, Indian, Ninja, Samauri, Geisha, and other cultural generic costumes are offensive or not. And I think it depends on the costume and what is the intent of the wearer and the venue it's displayed in.