My culture is not your prom dress: US teen's qipao sparks 'cultural appropriation' row on Twitter

[Nan Yang]

technically, the earliest artistic demonstration of pants is Nomadic people across Siberia continent between 50,000 to 10,000 BC, and generally speaking, it refer to Mongol and Russian according to Mal'ta–Buret' culture. Which make sense because I don't think people can survive ice age in Siberia wearing the type of gown like garment wore in the same period.

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The first ever actual and the oldest pants found was from Xinjian in 13BC

Mongols wear pants because they ride horses.
They also introduce violin to the west. Or rather drawing a bow to create sound instead of plucking.

 

[jhungary]

Mongols wear pants because they ride horses.
They also introduce violin to the west. Or rather drawing a bow to create sound instead of plucking.

Well, that does not mean anything and no, I am not talking about that period, the period I refer to is pre-historic (10000 to 50000 BC) and not because they need to ride horse. I am not even sure if there are horses during that period of time. Have to get back to you on that.

UPDATE :: Horses only have been domesticated since 3000-4000 BC, so no, Mongol would not be needing to ride horse to have pants. Because in that period of time, Horse existed but was not domesticated.

Dragon was talking about the first pants in the world is from China, that is from 13BC, I am just saying there are evidence that pants (at least a concept of pants) exists around 50000 years before that. I doubt pant from that long ago could have survived if there had been one.

 

[KAL-EL]

Hyper political correctness garbage

 

[faithfulguy]

the general dress code for men hasn't evolved that much and suit&tie are now considered universal, but for women things are a bit more complex and trickier, my point is,some girls can pull off certain types of dresses, some can not. as in this case, I do share with Lam that she seems "off" in that dress. differences is, Lam calls it "cultural appropriation", I call it bad taste

I disagree. She look hot in that dress. It shows her curves very well.

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

I disagree. She look hot in that dress. It shows her curves very well.

Glad it works for you, I am all for showing curves as well but when it comes to qipao I personally think it should be done in a subtle and elegant manner -- not the usual words people associate with typical American teenagers

Maybe it has something to do with culture after all.. just not the way Mr Lam implied -- one's cultural background should never be the point or to be mixed with fashion sense,to be fair some western women can still wear qipao perfectly

 

[Mista]

Glad it works for you, I am all for showing curves as well but when it comes to qipao I personally think it should be done in a subtle and elegant manner -- not the usual words people associate with typical American teenagers

Agreed. Qipao and Aodai are more suitable for slender/petite figures which display subtlety and grace, features of traditional Asian culture.

 

[siegecrossbow]

I love how SJWs instead of real Chinese people are protesting this.

 

[Jlaw]

Have saw the news this morning ,Beautiful girl and dress.
I think most chinese will see it as culture appreciation instead of cultural appropriation.

That Jeremy Lam (Lin) is what they call a liberal fucked up Asian American Chinese. This is how fucked up these Chinese wussies are in America.

 

[Hack-Hook]

This is just stupid...…..It's like a western guy point to a Chinese bride wearing tradition white wedding dress and say "This is my culture not your...wedding dress when you don't wear something old, something new, something borrow, something blue and a six pence under your shoes"

How many bride, Chinese or otherwise know the culture behind traditional white wedding gown and wear them when they got married? If you need to talk about culture appropriation. People wear white to wedding not because of it represent virginity and purity (it was blue not white, hence something blue) So, if you don't know about this, then wearing wedding dress, regardless of your race is not culturally appropriate...….

LOL, what a stupid guy

I thought in china for wedding they use red dress ?

 

[jhungary]

I thought in china for wedding they use red dress ?

Many modern Chinese wedding wear both, Bride will wear white during the day and red during the dinner with family and relative. They usually have 3 or 4 changes of dresses during the whole wedding.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

That Jeremy Lam (Lin) is what they call a liberal fucked up Asian American Chinese. This is how fucked up these Chinese wussies are in America.

I love how SJWs instead of real Chinese people are protesting this.

I wonder what is more ironic, an American of Chinese descent being an SJW, or being an Alt-Right Neo-Nazi. Jeremy Lam seems to be both at the same time, if you see his old twitter messages:

Neither one makes sense to me, but hey, it's America.

 

[Safriz]

I've never thought about this subject, to be frank.

Back when I was a teen, I used to listen to Punk Rock music. Long story short, the appropriate attire back in the day (shared by most teenagers in Greece) was German army boots, American skinny jeans, an American flight jacket and...a Palestinian keffiyeh.

I never gave much thought on whether the jacket or the scarf would be considered as cultural appropriation, although it is true that all Greek youth were very supportive of the Palestinian cause (and not so much of NATO or the US).

Not sure what to think now, in retrospect. I'd probably say that I don't view this as appropriation of a different culture.

Gaamiso malakiyya

 

[Zibago]

I dont get why it is an issue here

 

[Dalit]

Insecure Americans. This is how low these people have fallen.

Does a single Chinese poster here agree with Jeremy Lam, who is just another over-sensitive American?

Anyway, the first pair of trousers in the world were from western China. Otherwise the history of human clothing was mostly about long skirts.

Americans are a bunch of cowards. They feel threatened by a piece of cloth.

 

[siegecrossbow]

I wonder what is more ironic, an American of Chinese descent being an SJW, or being an Alt-Right Neo-Nazi. Jeremy Lam seems to be both at the same time, if you see his old twitter messages:

Neither one makes sense to me, but hey, it's America.

Some of them are dumb enough to think that they have the n-word privilege.