Seeing Darren in that barong, standing next to my Tatay in his, showed me that he was making an effort to understand and connect with my family.At Dress Up, we are the best online and in-store clothing boutique for trendy, affordable fashion! With weekly new arrivals, we can ensure that you will always have the most up-to-date, cutest styles to shop! Whether online shopping for dresses or visiting us in-store, find the perfect outfit that can you take from day to night. The conversations I had with the researchers hit a big point home for me: What we choose to wear has real power. Find out what that clothing, design, print or jewelry symbolizes within the culture and what it might mean for an outsider to wear it, says Monroy. Let's say you've been gifted a piece of jewelry from Afghanistan or bought a traditional embroidered shirt from Mexico and are wondering whether to wear it. Don't just wear something "because it looks nice," she says. Lastly, be aware that donning a culture's dress comes with great responsibility, says Mayra Monroy, an adjunct professor at Baylor University and the author of a paper called An Analysis of Cultural Appropriation in Fashion and Popular Media. You're basically deciding on behalf of a group that you're not part of, says Nguyen. "It imposes your singular view from the outside without consulting that particular cultural group" - and it can come off as dismissive and presumptive. "Ask the most relevant representatives of the culture, in this case the family, whether they want you to participate."Īnd it's not up to outsiders to decide.
"Listen to the cultures involved," says Nguyen. If you want to wear a cultural outfit to an event, say a qipao to a party hosted by Chinese friends, or a sari to a South Asian wedding, but you are not a member of either of these groups, what should you do? "My intention was never to cause any commotion or misunderstanding," she said. The student, Keziah Daum, told ABC News that the backlash was unexpected. In a viral tweet, one person on Twitter wrote, "my culture is NOT". In May, a white high school student in Utah ignited furor for wearing a Chinese-style dress to prom because she liked its look. That's because not all groups within a culture have the same views, he says. He is the co-author of a paper titled Cultural Appropriation and the Intimacy of Groups. Thi Nguyen, an associate professor of philosophy at Utah Valley University. "If you're wearing it as part of a cultural exploration or education, you should be hesitant," Matthes says.Įach culture gets to give permission to share a cultural tradition - or not, says C. And the folks I interviewed urge caution when it comes to dressing up in the garb of another ethnic group for Halloween. It's an act of cultural solidarity," he says.īut there are times when it's not OK, says Matthes: If you are wearing the clothing of another culture to intentionally offend or make fun of the group or to assert power over them (for example, if Darren was wearing the barong to make a point that America once occupied the Philippines - yikes!). "He's been invited by you and your family. Listening to my story, he says it was OK that Darren wore a barong to my family party. Was Darren appreciating? Or appropriating? I turned to the experts for advice.Įrich Hatala Matthes, an assistant professor of philosophy at Wellesley College who studies the ethics of cultural heritage, told me that there's no clear definition of cultural appropriation: "It's a really messy thing."
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