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Thank you Dora, for this post - (courtesy of Shrub.com) I too, never wanted to be a white girl. I just wanted to be exactly like a white girl.
And yes. We need to keep talking about this…
I have more to say but it will have to wait.
Actually the most frustrating thing ever - Orientalism meets globalization - the only comfort to me is that at least they are women of color. I saw this and laughed to save from crying or breaking something.
Oh and just by the way, the thing that angers me about this isn’t even the attempt-at-fusion dance itself. It is the fact that a company like Nike is benefitting from it - it is the colonizer using the other, the colonized, to gain economic strength and respectability…
From knowmore.org - it’s about American Apparel and whether they are really better than other clothing companies. The CEO sounds…there are no words. I told myself that the site is probably not a legitimate site…but…really? It’s just..scary to think that there are no really good corporations..
Due to time constraints, this will be an entry that will most likely be revealed in parts. Now that this disclaimer has been put out there, I have no regrets about starting and ending wherever I please.
I shall start at the beginning.
I never cared about hair before - and by that I mean, not to the point of being able to empathize with other women of color about their hair. Hair to me has always been about expression, and style, and femininity, but it has never been, until recently, about my identity as a South Asian American woman.
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