Cultural Appropriation
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“Off the mat, I understood and agreed with critiques of the American yoga industry, which profits from a religious tradition and culture that is not its own. But on the mat, I let...
Intention versus Impact: A 🧵 Someone steps on your foot by mistake. They didn’t mean to hurt you, but they broke your toe. These things can happen in the course of regular human i...
Casual everyday Hinduphobia. This reel by Kevin Bacon came up on IG. He and Kyra Sedgewick are doing some acrodance to “Footloose” in front of a fireplace. It seems like they’re a...
As Islamists in Maldives attack Hindus on Yoga day, Audrey goes back 700 years to find a fictional 'Muslim Yogi' to claim Yoga isn't Hindu. So nothing good can ever be indigenous t...
The reason no academic ever likes to talk about the work of Thomas Sowell was because he was the only one who dared discover that “Blaq American culture” is actually just older Mid...
1 Many Hindus think Christmas is a time of good cheer & celebrate with Christmas pudding/fruitcake made with currants, raisins, candied peels & fruits soaked in brandy and rum. But...
See this painting in the background of Rashtrapati Bhavan? It is a painting of the famous Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi who referred to Hindus as "ugly black crows". https://t.co/j9...
Got this #Hinduphobic email from @Navatman newsletter this morning, where they claim that Mahabharata is NOT HINDU. They make money thru donations and ticket sales as they present...
This became a new marketing scheme, where they sell things by mocking Hindu rituals without Knowing Anything about it. Kanyadanam is an extremely Sentimental Ritual of Hindu Mar...
There is a Western progressive outlook that only accepts indigeneity as authentic if it perceives it to be “simple and tribal.”. If it’s sophisticated, nuanced, and urban, it’s not...
Appropriation of Guru Purnima: Traditionally, Hindus celebrate Guru Purnima to mark the birth of Rishi Veda Vyasa on the full moon of Āṣāḍha month. Recently, there has been such...
Imagine - IMAGINE!!! - a white American benefiting off of Black American culture and making a career out of it and refusing to investigate systemic racism in this country. Expectin...
This is nothing but THEFT and appropriation of Indian Heritage. While this might look very trivial at the outset, this is a very major cultural appropriation. This threads explai...
Sri Aurobindo on Cultural Appropriation “The Western attack is not confined to a breaking down of the forms of Eastern culture; there is at the same time a large, subtle and sile...
😂Paying respect & worshipping by making fake Bodhisattva is two different things. If I start quoting the Dalai Lama, then you will not be able to show your face All hindu deities...
'Liberals' in India have no original thoughts but simply try to copy what they *think* makes them 'woke' in the West. They are either totally clueless or outright malicious. A brie...
Christians often say they 'civilized' the world. Who civilized Christianity? Greece and Rome. Polytheistic Pagan cultures. What did Christians do in turn? Appropriated their entire...
What is AAVE? And why should nonblack people avoid using it? A small thread.
🔥 UNBELIEVABLE CULTURAL APPROPRIATION 🔥 ********************************* Cultural appropriation is ubiquitous in India, especially in southern states with its full potential. Chri...
With growing alarm, I've watched armed white men protesting around the US. But, as a Hawai'i resident, I've wondered specifically about the reoccurring presence of aloha shirts. He...
Article says Guru Purnima was originally a Buddhist festival stolen by Hindus Some facts 1) The word "Guru Purnima" is not found in ANY Buddhist scripture 2)Nowhere in the whole...
1. Fake Website @scroll_in does it again. Releases a video intending to prove Hindus & Brahmins are of foreign "Aryan" origin. Posts an image of bearded men with helmets. Claims t...