Lemmy Lemmy:
raydan raydan:
I still don't get how dressing up in Native traditional dress or as a sheik is racist... if a Chinese family dressed up like this for Halloween, it wouldn't bother me in the least.
It's not racist. It's just in bad taste. It's insensitive to whatever culture whose cultural/traditional dress you're using as a costume. My family is Scottish. A colleague of mine wore a kilt on Halloween some years back and I told him, straight up, that it was offensive to Scottish people to see their traditional dress treated as a Halloween costume.
Oh suck it up. It's Hallowe'en ffs, the one day of the year where you're supposed to be able to dress up as something your aren't. Now, I could see it as being in bad taste if his character/costume was supposed to be a "
drunken Scotsman".
I could see a problem if a costume reinforced a negative stereotype like the above mentioned costume or say, a "sexy squaw in distress" or dressing as an Arabic person with "explosives" strapped to your chest.
What next, can't dress up in drag for Hallowe'en because it might be offensive to transsexuals and actual cross dressers?
Jesus man, I never hear this kind of pissing and moaning about Black people with dyed blonde hair. Or Natives wearing denim.
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