you're not trying to appreciate anything you're literally just steel there is a lot of cultural appropriation I believe only for festivals yes I mean I can't wear this a regular day at the office let's say that at the end of the day that is someone heritage i define cultural appropriation is taking something from a culture that isn't your own and not giving the full any sort of residue of credit back when one racial group in their history has taken from a different racial group and then in future being currently wearing the same thing like a
slap in the face it's dancing that line between being ignorant and understanding at the end of the day that is someone's heritage and I think in order to sort of understand that on a deeper level I think you kind of almost have to understand racism on a deeper level as well Rhona bindi get weird comments one person asked me if it was an implant I I don't know how to respond to that really same people that say it's racist to say that a white person can't wear a bindi are probably the same people that don't
necessarily understand that people have been aggressively downtrodden on for wearing that that item I don't usually go to festivals but that was probably the most upset I've been about cultural appropriation because I've felt powerless being there being surrounded by a lot of people who wouldn't understand and it's just it just when I see other people doing it without any repercussion just makes me think like why can't I just be I can't wear that myself and just have people treat me normally when you are a part of a culture for example the Society has told you
how you look is wrong for someone to then take that and then say well I'm gonna do it because it's fashionable and it's cool now but it's a music festival so who cares it's very almost kind of ignorant to the people that have had to go for those things in a city like London you have to have aspects of people taking on other cultures otherwise everything's just segregated with a huge melting pot where you know the Caribbean meets cooking it shapes you differently shapes of what you eat it shapes what you wear it shapes what
music you listen to there's so many aspects that then fit into you know the festival fee [Music] this is an outfit from Coptic while in West Africa I like wearing it I like wearing it as someone said about fell on their bindi and I can't wear a bindi why was that if someone was telling me that I felt offended that was definitely operates Turkish you can talk about it but I think like being up in my needle so come with me both ways and maybe I have to understand that it's not an offensive or like
a celebration I don't mind if somebody from Africa wants to wear a suit and I don't really mind if I wonder where their world looks like if they see other cultures as something fun so I really got to meet whoa no why all these people they are dressing like that I think a festival typically someplace you just be free there there's an Indian guy in my group and I asked him what he what he thought about it and he said well it's completely fine with me I would never buy an outfit a cultural thing that
people kind of just embracing fashion that emanates from different cultures and I think that's a really joyous thing and I don't see it as negative or in any sense in social yeah and we're all people we're all fine in who we are we don't all want to stick to one thing and if you know if a country was very much like stick to our culture English culture that's the world would be even more sheltered I mean it's through that the value behind for them to light something and we use it and make [Music] we bring
with us it's appreciation more than appropriation I think I would never want to wear something and then know only you've really funded me back yeah yeah why and I don't I don't think you understand my culture how in this as long as because I don't think it's a fancy but I mean if it is then I would if I knew that it were I wouldn't do it but I'm not quite sure that this Indian culture I feel like as English and British people we look up to that we aspire to their colors her vibrancy if
you walk down London you see it's all black clothing everywhere and I feel like that's what people want to challenge at festivals in the past I've seen someone in a Native American headdress and just said to them can you name me a tribe and they can't not one it's very frustrating and I think that's the thing is that I think what I would say to those people is just to listen like and understand that people can have different viewpoints from you and they're not necessarily come there from a place of attacking you they're coming it
from a place of this is my voice and my voice isn't necessarily always heard as much as an individual you're going to be attracted to whatever aesthetics appeal to you whatever stories appeal to you whatever you find through travels through relationships even the Internet and it might it might not necessarily be something you were raised with but what we will raise with doesn't necessarily echo who they are when people say they are trying to promote diversity and acceptance I think it's very important to remember that not everybody wants white validation the point isn't that white
people need to wear things to normal things seeing people who aren't of that culture dressed in that way embracing it and understanding it from the food to the language to the music that for me is a truer expression then putting a bindi on and that festival because you think it looks cool I think when it comes to saying that cultural appropriation is a problem and then saying that only white people are capable of it that's also up for debate because anyone can appropriate another culture we also have to identify when it happens and white people
aren't necessarily part of it because I think there's always look just like demonization I was like white people have done this again or what don't get it I think it's beyond white privilege and I think you can look at other examples like Nicki Minaj or chun-li like I think if you're going to be do it you have to be consistent with it it takes a lot of time when you become an adult to unlearn all the small racist things people have said to you as a child and all the feeling ashamed of your own culture
because it feels so weird to white people how can you embrace and feel like you're embracing a culture if the people of that culture aren't happy with you embracing it so if you are happy to do that and aligned with that are you truly and very singer culture in the first place you
