That Pocahontas costume? It's not 'cute.' It's cultural appropriation, and it's harmful.
If your first impulse when you read the title of this piece was to roll your eyes so hard that you could almost see out the back of your head, thenThat’s because, more than likely, you are part of the millions of people who don’t care whether you allow your child to appropriate another person’s culture for Halloween, and you do so under the guise of “Oh, it’s just a holiday” or “Just let kids be kids.
, “In a nutshell, it is the use of icons, rituals, aesthetic standards, regalia, or behavior from one culture by another. The person appropriating often has no knowledge of the significance of the icons or regalia or any understanding of the significance or history behind the cultural traditions.” Just because you “claim” that your child admires a culture, you can still teach them to appreciate someone’s culture without actually imitating it. And 9 times out of 10, when people purchase these cheap costumes for their kids to wear trick-or-treating, they don’t stop to consider the feelings of those from the cultures that are being appropriated.
But let’s look at it like this: If you wouldn’t allow your child to go full blackface in a Tiana costume for Halloween, why is it okay to allow them to dress as a geisha or Native American .
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