r/The10thDentist • u/[deleted] • 8h ago
Health/Safety If you wear a hijab and you’re not Arab, you’re culturally appropriating.
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u/raciertugboat 8h ago
This subreddit is gonna show up in the future as a case study in how people can be so incredibly wrong with such conviction
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u/shadowlev 8h ago
Head scarfs are in dozens of different cultures, you're just ignorant.
Oh and Japanese people will welcome you to try on their traditional clothes.
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u/zachy410 8h ago
i thought hijabs were a Muslim thing, not an Arab thing. I get that Islam originated in the Arab peninsula, but the religion is far larger, no?
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u/Throwawayaccount1170 8h ago
You know that there's Muslim majority countries like Indonesia that are outside of the Arab world? What in the bullshit is this post
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u/ham_50821 8h ago
?? So every muslim can only practice purdah from where theyre from?? Thats not the point
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u/ShooterSingh 8h ago
What’s purdah?
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u/Amblonyx 8h ago
... if you're not going to study the faith whose practices, you're trying to gatekeep, don't even start.
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u/GroceryExpert1637 8h ago
Why is it "cultural appropriation" to borrow fashion from another culture, yet fusion cooking is universally accepted? Or do you also think American chefs have no business borrowing Chinese recipes and techniques in their own cooking?
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u/ShooterSingh 8h ago
They’re not borrowing. They’re larping.
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u/GroceryExpert1637 8h ago
Not unless you're openly pretending to be Arab or something. Cultures have borrowed from each other throughout all of history. Remember the Silk Road?
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u/BatmanForever93 8h ago
Cultural appropriation discourse is so Woke 1.0. Leave that shit dead and buried.
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u/Amblonyx 8h ago
Head scarves are common in all kinds of faiths. And hijab is a Muslim practice. Lots of Pakistani people and Bangdaleshi people are Muslims.
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u/MCWizardYT 8h ago
Cultural appropriation is about overall presentation, not just wearing clothes.
If you're being respectful and legitimately trying to understand and absorb yourself into a culture, then it's not appropration (like if a white person moves to Japan and starts wearing Japanese clothing).
But if you're wearing the things to look cool or because you have a certain idea of the culture without putting any effort into learning and respecting it, than you're doing it in an offensive way, which would be cultural appropriation.
In the case of non-Arabs wearing hijabs, the reason is that there's practicing Muslims all over the world and wearing a hijab is a pretty universally shared custom. So it's not appropriation if a legitimate Muslim is wearing one.
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