Many music festivals are banning Native American headdresses due to cultural appropriation. Including the Glastonbury Festival in England, and one in Canada. The reason Glastonbury is banning the headdresses is because of a petition created by David Round on change.org. Round states that wearing the headdresses is "an offensive and disrespectful form of cultural appropriation", and that it makes a diverse culture similar. He also says that by wearing the headdresses, people are creating "damaging and racist stereotypes".The Canadian music festival, Bass Coast, banned the headdresses to "respect the dignity of aboriginal people". Organizers of the festival tell The Guardian that since their festival 'takes place on indigenous land' they feel that they should listen to the aborigines and not allow the headdresses, they also say that they do not want to separate culture and aesthetics.
Music festivals are not the only place were headdresses are controversial. In the 2012 Victoria's Secret fashion show, model Karlie Kloss wore a magnificent headdress tribal jewelry and fringed details on her heels. After the fashion show Victoria's Secret apologized by saying "We are sorry that the Native American headdress replica used in our recent fashion show has upset individuals. We sincerely apologize as we absolutely had no intention to offend anyone. Out of respect, we will not be including the outfit in any broadcast, marketing materials nor in any other way." The band No Doubt shot a music video for one of their singles, and in the music video Gwen Stefani dressed as a Native American which caused many people to be angry. They too had too apologize. In their apology they said that since they are a "multi-racial" band they're built on diversity, and that they had no intention in offending anyone. They took the video down immediately because "being hurtful to people is simply not who they are".
The reason I chose to research about cultural appropriation, is because I come from a culture where many things are copied as well. My friends and I often have discussions about how it annoys us when other people try to copy us and say that they're being "chic" or "trendy". I remember coming to school with henna on my hands as a kid and people always giving me weird looks and saying offensive things. Now of you go on twitter, you can see all these twitter accounts with pictures of henna with captions like "henna goals" or heat-eyed emojis. I chose to research this because I wanted to know what other cultures have traditions that they don't like being copied.
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Music festivals are not the only place were headdresses are controversial. In the 2012 Victoria's Secret fashion show, model Karlie Kloss wore a magnificent headdress tribal jewelry and fringed details on her heels. After the fashion show Victoria's Secret apologized by saying "We are sorry that the Native American headdress replica used in our recent fashion show has upset individuals. We sincerely apologize as we absolutely had no intention to offend anyone. Out of respect, we will not be including the outfit in any broadcast, marketing materials nor in any other way." The band No Doubt shot a music video for one of their singles, and in the music video Gwen Stefani dressed as a Native American which caused many people to be angry. They too had too apologize. In their apology they said that since they are a "multi-racial" band they're built on diversity, and that they had no intention in offending anyone. They took the video down immediately because "being hurtful to people is simply not who they are".
The reason I chose to research about cultural appropriation, is because I come from a culture where many things are copied as well. My friends and I often have discussions about how it annoys us when other people try to copy us and say that they're being "chic" or "trendy". I remember coming to school with henna on my hands as a kid and people always giving me weird looks and saying offensive things. Now of you go on twitter, you can see all these twitter accounts with pictures of henna with captions like "henna goals" or heat-eyed emojis. I chose to research this because I wanted to know what other cultures have traditions that they don't like being copied.
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