If your party is about honoring other cultures and trying to look good, it's not appropriation. If it's about throwing it in people's faces that you don't care what their culture is or means, and just to prove that you can do what you please 100% of the time, it's at least insensitive. Appropriation is doing stuff like dressing in a cheongsam with chopsticks in your hair and saying you're a "geisha," which is a perpetuation of inaccurate and harmful stereotypes (cheongsams are Chinese and geisha are Japanese, and there's a lot of baggage here). Or taking a sacred or otherwise important token from one culture and misusing it. Going to Japan and dressing in a kimono for photos is not appropriation, dressing in a friend's kimono is not appropriation. Buying a "sexy Kimono/geisha costume" for Halloween is absolutely appropriation and upholds racist stereotypes. So your party, as you describe it, doesn't sound like appropriation. But it also sounds like you don't care.

Pick any of them, christians have all ready appropriated all of theirs from others.

Christmas! :P

I've had my culture appropriated, and I don't think its bad. Culture isn't a pure thing, and it shouldn't remain 'pure' because that concept in and of itself is racist. When white people wear dreadlocks, and people call it 'appropriation' that's both untrue and harmful. Dreadlocks have been around freaking forever, and to pretend they are exclusively for someone of a certain race is racist, period. Indians probably 'invented' dreadlocks, so when Egyptians started using them-- guess what! It was appropriated. The greeks followed suit. Culture is an ever evolving and changing thing, and it is both folly and close minded to want to confine it. To make culture a thing only certain races can enjoy-- it cements the thing as an 'other' that is untouchable. This is bad. The only way to understand other cultures is to adopt them. I'm not talking about using a national dress as a costume, although when people wear lederhosen out of context, its apparently not appropriation?

Mr Me, buying a cheongsam and saying you're dressed as a "geisha" for Halloween is one example of appropriation. Here's how it could be harmful or at least offensive: cheongsam are Chinese, geisha are Japanese. Back before WWII, geisha were court performers and oiran were courtesans. But the two started getting conflated. People started viewing geisha as prostitutes. Then Westerners came, and started to refer to prostitutes as "geesha girls" and brought those stereotypes home with them. Now women wear Chinese clothing, saying they're prostitutes/geisha for Halloween. So now a dress from a whole different culture is getting conflated with prostitution because it's been appropriated by people who don't know the difference and don't care. Non-Chinese can wear cheongsams, non-Japanese can wear kimonos, but know the difference, and don't perpetuate racist stereotypes.

If the person in the post were in it for the animals, though, I think they'd be at least a little happy for any time a meat-eater chooses to forgo meat, because that means less meat eaten overall, an animal saved. But they act like it's a cool label. Like anyone who eats meat needs to eat it 100% of the time.

Puddin, I agree about this vegan - I don't think this person really cares about animals. I'm just pointing out that we are not all crazy and we do want people to eat vegan food.

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The thing is those "better" vegan don't go around vivifying meat-eaters and will just respect everyone's choice while maintaining theirs rather than go around waving photos of tortured animals, warp themselves in package warp, cry father cry mother like a freaking maniac. Period.

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Then why don't you become a better vegan and become an example?

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Yeah... you can do something that drastically decreases the harm and suffering you cause for absolutely selfish and stupid reasons, too.

we are not everyone

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Downvotes. Lol. Omnis are such wusses it’s incredible

I'm pretty sure Subjajit that you haven't leaned science in quite some time.

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You kill the planet.

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The trend will end with the world if we continue with this broken food and healthcare system. Future is vegan or there isn't any. Read the science and not the propaganda.

You dont know most "omnis" to know WHAT they "cant get over". Generalizing Vegans based off the obnoxious behavior of the one in the post is just as vile as generalizing "omnis" based on the few you have experienced. Since you are being so "moral" about your eating habits, how about you also adopt the "moral stance" of not judging millions of people you don't know due to the behavior of a few??

it isn't

And here we have one hallucinating vegan proclaim to save the world by going vegan.