Q. I am getting a Chinese goddess on my back, the goddess is based on the book beautiful women, and the imagery is stunning as will my tattoo be, what do most people think about white people (females) getting chinese or Japanese inspired goddess/geisha tattoos? you never see a chinese girl with a Celtic arm band. do you all thin it is sexy, dishonorable, art lover
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no I am not trying to be a harajuku girl or anything like that lol I just happen to love the art in this book and the goddess has great meaning to me
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no I am not trying to be a harajuku girl or anything like that lol I just happen to love the art in this book and the goddess has great meaning to me
A. I can't answer for what Chinese people would think - but if easterners were getting tattoos inspired by my culture I think I would find it flattering if anything, if it was a good piece of work! I wouldn't think anything less of you for having it, particularly if you have an appreciation for the culture and the art. It's much better than all the teenagers getting (usually incorrect) Kanji symbols just for the hell of it when they have no understanding or particular affinity to the culture their tattoo comes from. I know those kind of tattoos are often the butt of many oriental's jokes, moreso because they almost always have the wrong meaning! At the end of the day, most tattoo styles have their roots in one culture or another, even if we don't realise it. Pin up girl tattoos are traditionally American but I know a lot of British people with them, for example! I go on a tattoo forum and recently there was a guy on there ranting on about how it was so disrespectful and pathetic how non-maori's often had maori tattoos (he was from new zealand) and that how his tattoo was better because it had no meaning it was just a 'popular pattern', until I pointed out that his tattoo was celtic and had it's roots in scotland, wales and ireland, at which point he shut up! Anyway, as long as you're happy with the design and the meaning it holds for you then the opinions of others are totally irrelevant!
What do you think of white people who wear cultural clothes?
Q. Does anyone get offended if someone outside your own culture wears your cultures traditional clothes/costumes?
For example, if you are Japanese, do you get upset when you see a white person wearing a kimono or obi?
Or if you're black, do you get upset when you see non blacks wearing African beads or inspired outfits?
Or if your Native American, do you get offended by people wearing your cultures clothes, leathers, or jewelry?
For example, if you are Japanese, do you get upset when you see a white person wearing a kimono or obi?
Or if you're black, do you get upset when you see non blacks wearing African beads or inspired outfits?
Or if your Native American, do you get offended by people wearing your cultures clothes, leathers, or jewelry?
A. It depends.....is it something we share willingly? Did we make the jewellery to sell? Did we make the clothing to sell? Or is it made-in-China garbage sold at Hottopic?
That is the big question....Did WE make it, for your enjoyment, or have you co-opted something we weren't sharing?
No one gets offended at people wearing silly dreamcatcher shirts/earrings, or pleather moccasins with plastic beads. We LAUGH at those that do. No one cares about people getting dreamcatcher tattoos....its another occasion to laugh at their ignorance, for its obvious they have NO idea what it actually is.
The part that we get offended at, is when people wear headdresses, or regalia, as regular clothing, claiming its "fashion". A headdress is akin to a military vet's medals. Each feather in one has been awarded for a deed or honour. No one would ever dare wear a vet's medals as if they were their own....so why do they presume to wear a headdress, which is the same thing? Or worse yet, stick a skanky, half-naked woman in it, and take horribly amateur pictures, calling it "art".
Notice that you don't find books or websites written by legit Natives, detailing our beliefs. Nor do you ever see an Indian handing out flyers, or going to door to door, inviting nons to our ceremonies. That is because the sacred isn't for sale, and it isn't for sharing. We don't seek out converts, or take on recruits, because our beliefs aren't for you. And considering how many of our sacred items....like eagle feathers and headdresses....are for sacred purporse...NO, we don't want to share them, and it is offensive that people just take what they want, for their own selfish reasons.
The little tiny bits we have shared in the past, have all been corrupted. Look at how many people make dreamcatchers now....and somehow attribute them to all Native cultures, or as a symbol of Indian-ness, when they are only part of ONE Native culture. Or new-agers and their co-opting of the word 'totem'. They've twisted it to mean some nonsense animal spirit guide fluff. It means Clan. Nothing more, nothing less. But now everyone demands that Natives have these animal spirit guide things, because of their thievery of one word.
I go out of my way, to make damn sure I don't co-opt from any other cultures, anything they don't share willingly. And just because its in a store, doesn't mean they had the right to put it there.
*jeans and t-shirts are not cultural items. A kilt, leiderhosen, etc are.
That is the big question....Did WE make it, for your enjoyment, or have you co-opted something we weren't sharing?
No one gets offended at people wearing silly dreamcatcher shirts/earrings, or pleather moccasins with plastic beads. We LAUGH at those that do. No one cares about people getting dreamcatcher tattoos....its another occasion to laugh at their ignorance, for its obvious they have NO idea what it actually is.
The part that we get offended at, is when people wear headdresses, or regalia, as regular clothing, claiming its "fashion". A headdress is akin to a military vet's medals. Each feather in one has been awarded for a deed or honour. No one would ever dare wear a vet's medals as if they were their own....so why do they presume to wear a headdress, which is the same thing? Or worse yet, stick a skanky, half-naked woman in it, and take horribly amateur pictures, calling it "art".
Notice that you don't find books or websites written by legit Natives, detailing our beliefs. Nor do you ever see an Indian handing out flyers, or going to door to door, inviting nons to our ceremonies. That is because the sacred isn't for sale, and it isn't for sharing. We don't seek out converts, or take on recruits, because our beliefs aren't for you. And considering how many of our sacred items....like eagle feathers and headdresses....are for sacred purporse...NO, we don't want to share them, and it is offensive that people just take what they want, for their own selfish reasons.
The little tiny bits we have shared in the past, have all been corrupted. Look at how many people make dreamcatchers now....and somehow attribute them to all Native cultures, or as a symbol of Indian-ness, when they are only part of ONE Native culture. Or new-agers and their co-opting of the word 'totem'. They've twisted it to mean some nonsense animal spirit guide fluff. It means Clan. Nothing more, nothing less. But now everyone demands that Natives have these animal spirit guide things, because of their thievery of one word.
I go out of my way, to make damn sure I don't co-opt from any other cultures, anything they don't share willingly. And just because its in a store, doesn't mean they had the right to put it there.
*jeans and t-shirts are not cultural items. A kilt, leiderhosen, etc are.
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