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"content": "\u003cp>For my grandpa's 90th birthday, our family threw him a \u003cem>barrio fiesta\u003c/em>-themed bash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We decorated the backyard with colorful bunting so it would look like the neighborhood parties that Tatay grew up with in his home country of the Philippines. We ordered a big \u003cem>lechon\u003c/em>, a roasted pig. And the guests were asked to wear \u003cem>filipiniana\u003c/em>, traditional Filipino costume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While I was jazzed to don a bright orange and yellow \u003cem>patadyong—\u003c/em>a sarong-like skirt and wrap—my white, 30-something husband Darren, from Nashville, Tenn., felt nervous in his \u003cem>barong\u003c/em>, an embroidered shirt woven from pineapple leaf fibers. My aunt had told all the guests to dress in traditional clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like this is cultural appropriation,\" he said, tugging at the collar and looking around nervously. \"I honestly feel uncomfortable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I could understand Darren's trepidation. Just over this past year, a number of prominent people have gotten into hot water for donning the dress of other cultures. In February, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family \u003ca href=\"https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/critics-say-trudeau-s-indian-attire-is-a-bit-much-1.3814412\">were criticized for wearing over-the-top Indian attire\u003c/a> on his state visit to India. \"We Indians don't dress like this every day ... not even in Bollywood,\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OmarAbdullah/status/966218016286441472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E966218016286441472&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ctvnews.ca%2Fcanada%2Fcritics-say-trudeau-s-indian-attire-is-a-bit-much-1.3814412\">wrote one person\u003c/a> on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OmarAbdullah/status/966218016286441472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E966218016286441472&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ctvnews.ca%2Fcanada%2Fcritics-say-trudeau-s-indian-attire-is-a-bit-much-1.3814412\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Madonna sported a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/08/21/640587899/the-story-behind-madonnas-silver-horns-at-the-vmas\">mishmash\u003c/a> of accessories from the Amazigh tribe in North Africa while performing at the VMAs. Some found her jewelry \"insulting,\" although Addi Ouadderrou, a Moroccan Amazigh, told NPR that her getup didn't bother him. \"If someone comes to Morocco and wants to wear our clothes, to me, that's an honor; that's not an insult,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wearing a \u003cem>barong\u003c/em> to Tatay's birthday party—this, I felt, was not appropriation. It filled me with pride to see my white husband in the clothing of my heritage. I know my family was excited, too. My uncle lent his shirt, which he had dry-cleaned and pressed before giving to Darren. My cousins wanted to take selfies with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I reassured him that he was expressing support and a sense of unity with my Filipino family. And we were wearing these outfits as an act of kindness to Tatay. He is losing his memory—but \u003cem>barong\u003c/em> and \u003cem>patadyong \u003c/em>and \u003cem>lechon\u003c/em>, these are some of the things that remain in his mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, I wasn't sure who was right. Was Darren appreciating? Or appropriating? I turned to the experts for advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.wellesley.edu/philosophy/faculty/matthes\">Erich Hatala Matthes\u003c/a>, an assistant professor of philosophy at Wellesley College who studies the ethics of cultural heritage, told me that there's no clear definition of cultural appropriation: \"It's a really messy thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listening to my story, he says it was okay that Darren wore a \u003cem>barong\u003c/em> to my family party. \"He's been invited by you and your family\u003cem>.\u003c/em> He has a good reason to do it. It's an act of cultural solidarity,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are times when it's not okay, says Matthes: If you are wearing the clothing of another culture to intentionally offend or make fun of the group or to assert power over them (for example, if Darren was wearing the \u003cem>barong\u003c/em> to make a point that America once occupied the Philippines—yikes!). And the folks I interviewed urge caution when it comes to dressing up in the garb of another ethnic group for Halloween.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're [not] wearing it as part of a cultural exploration or education, you should be hesitant,\" Matthes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each culture gets to give permission to share a cultural tradition—or not, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.uvu.edu/profpages/profiles/show/user_id/13176\">C. Thi Nguyen\u003c/a>, an associate professor of philosophy at Utah Valley University. He is the co-author of a paper titled \u003ca href=\"https://www.academia.edu/37275595/Cultural_Appropriation_and_the_Intimacy_of_Groups\">Cultural Appropriation and the Intimacy of Groups\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because not all groups within a culture have the same views, he says. In May, a white high school student in Utah ignited furor for wearing a Chinese-style dress to prom because she liked its look. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jere_bare/status/989981023076208640\">In a viral tweet\u003c/a>, one person on Twitter wrote, \"my culture is NOT\" ... your prom dress. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/msyinseattle/status/991187935381762048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E991187935381762048&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnews%2Fmorning-mix%2Fwp%2F2018%2F05%2F01%2Fits-just-a-dress-teens-chinese-prom-attire-stirs-cultural-appropriation-debate%2F\">Another wrote\u003c/a>, \"I am a Chinese woman. I support you!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jere_bare/status/989981023076208640\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The student, Keziah Daum, \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Style/teen-defends-chinese-prom-dress-sparked-cultural-appropriation/story?id=54866211\">told ABC News\u003c/a> that the backlash was unexpected. \"My intention was never to cause any commotion or misunderstanding,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to wear a cultural outfit to an event, say a \u003cem>qipao \u003c/em>to a party hosted by Chinese friends, or a sari to a South Asian wedding, but you are not a member of either of these groups, what should you do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Listen to the cultures involved,\" says Nguyen. \"Ask the most relevant representatives of the culture, in this case the family, whether they want you to participate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not up to outsiders to decide. \"It imposes \u003cem>your\u003c/em> singular view from the outside without consulting that particular cultural group\"—and it can come off as dismissive and presumptive. You're basically deciding on behalf of a group that you're not part of, says Nguyen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, be aware that donning a culture's dress comes with great responsibility, says Mayra Monroy, an adjunct professor at Baylor University and the author of a paper called \u003cem>An Analysis of Cultural Appropriation in Fashion and Popular Media\u003c/em>. 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Find out what that clothing, design, print or jewelry symbolizes within the culture and what it might mean for an outsider to wear it, says Monroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversations I had with the researchers hit a big point home for me: What we choose to wear has real power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing Darren in that \u003cem>barong\u003c/em>, standing next to my Tatay in his, showed me that he was making an effort to understand and connect with my family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that, to me, was a beautiful thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=When+Is+It+OK+To+Wear+The+Clothing+Of+Another+Culture%3F+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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In 2014, \u003cem>Time\u003c/em> reminded us that Stefani had \"\u003ca href=\"http://time.com/3524847/gwen-stefani-racist-harajuku-girls/\">perpetuated some extremely racist stereotypes\u003c/a>,\" and \u003cem>Vice\u003c/em> did a 10-year anniversary article to pointedly look back on Stefani's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.vice.com/read/revisiting-gwen-stefanis-racist-pop-frankenstein-ten-years-later-567\">Racist Pop Frankenstein Years\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between that, plus the incident in 2012 when No Doubt had to apologize to Native Americans for the \"cowboys and Indians-themed\" video for \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40OSktBigHw\">\"Looking Hot\"\u003c/a> (which featured Stefani wearing traditional tribal clothing and DANCING IN A TEEPEE), you'd have thought the singer would have learned to question her own appropriation problems before making them yet again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nope!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nick.com/\">Nickelodeon\u003c/a> announced the Oct. 3 debut of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nick.com/kuu-kuu-harajuku/\">\u003cem>Kuu Kuu Harajuku\u003c/em>\u003c/a> -- a cartoon that revives Love, Angel, Music and Baby and puts them in a band (named HJ5) alongside a blond named \"G\" (guess who?). 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It's hard not to. The school uniforms are still there. And one girl has hair sticks. But these \"Harajuku\" girls, with their long legs, tiny waists, big boots and oversized, made-up eyes, more closely resemble \u003ca href=\"http://www.toysrus.com/graphics/product_images/pTRU1-20937459enh-z6.jpg\">Bratz\u003c/a> dolls (a brand frequently criticized for marketing overly-sexualized female body ideals to tweens) than anything related to \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harajuku\" target=\"_blank\">Harajuku culture.\u003c/a> It seems Stefani (or network executives) thought the best way to deal with the overt cultural appropriation was simply \"let's not have them be Asian anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are Stefani fans who will undoubtedly argue that if she had gone with an animated band of obviously Asian characters, that too would have been culturally insensitive. They will say that Gwen is damned if she does, and damned if she doesn't. 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Stefani has said that the animated series is \"for young girls\" and \"celebrates creativity, imagination and individuality.\" Which sounds great until you see what the characters actually look like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36792\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-10.04.12-PM-800x446.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-09-13 at 10.04.12 PM\" width=\"800\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-10.04.12-PM-800x446.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-10.04.12-PM-400x223.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-10.04.12-PM-768x429.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-10.04.12-PM-1440x804.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-10.04.12-PM-1920x1071.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-10.04.12-PM-1180x658.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-10.04.12-PM-960x536.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might be wondering where the Japanese girls are here. It's hard not to. The school uniforms are still there. And one girl has hair sticks. But these \"Harajuku\" girls, with their long legs, tiny waists, big boots and oversized, made-up eyes, more closely resemble \u003ca href=\"http://www.toysrus.com/graphics/product_images/pTRU1-20937459enh-z6.jpg\">Bratz\u003c/a> dolls (a brand frequently criticized for marketing overly-sexualized female body ideals to tweens) than anything related to \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harajuku\" target=\"_blank\">Harajuku culture.\u003c/a> It seems Stefani (or network executives) thought the best way to deal with the overt cultural appropriation was simply \"let's not have them be Asian anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are Stefani fans who will undoubtedly argue that if she had gone with an animated band of obviously Asian characters, that too would have been culturally insensitive. They will say that Gwen is damned if she does, and damned if she doesn't. But there is a very obvious and simple way for Stefani to avoid any more racial and cultural shadiness here: Just remove the word \"Harajuku\" from the show. 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