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#Post#: 2247--------------------------------------------------
Dress decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 16, 2020, 1:49 am
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I was meaning to start a topic about this for a while, but
delayed. Then I just came across this story:
www.cp24.com/news/watch-cut-off-turban-to-look-like-a-canadian-r
acist-man-tells-singh-1.4620893
[quote]Singh is a practising Sikh who wears a turban.
It was the turban that prompted a man to confront Singh as he
walked through Montreal's Atwater market this morning.
The man told Singh he should cut his turban off so he would
�look like a Canadian.�
Singh replied that Canadians look like all kinds of people and
that's the beauty of the country.
The older man was undaunted, telling Singh that �in Rome you do
what the Romans do.�[/quote]
If so, then the bigot should be wearing this in Canada:
https://www.museevirtuel.ca/media/edu/EN/uploads/image/L2D36416348355143567761.…
But he does not, and we all know why not.
Eurocentrism in dress codes needs to go. For example, here is
Akihito Yamato with Elizabeth Windsor (incoming humiliation
alert!):
[img]
https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/akihito_photo_22.jpg?quality=75&s…
Can you imagine Elizabeth wearing Japanese formal wear to meet
Akihito? Neither can I. And that's the point. There is no
sovereign parity here. The clothes alone tell the whole watching
world who is the colonizer and who has been colonized.
(In fact Elizabeth did visit Japan:
[img]
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/25/590x/secondary/Queen-Elizabeth-…
Not only did she obviously not wear Japanese formal wear, but
ironically you cannot even tell from the photo that she is in
Japan due to the wholly Western architecture in the background.)
In contrast, here is an example of how a decolonized head of
state dresses when meeting Western heads of state (watch and
learn!):
https://resize.indiatvnews.com/en/centered/oldbucket/715_431/maininternational/…
[img]
https://static.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20071210&t=2&i=2440097&r=2007-12…
This is what it means to have national pride. This is also why
they killed him and installed (sartorial Eurocentrist) Sarraj in
Libya instead:
https://cdn1.opensecrets.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/19131101/Donald-Tr…
The issue is not just about heads of state. All anti-Westerners
should make a point of disdaining Western dress codes at every
suitable opportunity:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_dress_codes
(Counterculture fashion is fine, of course.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W27PnUuXR_A
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What we are promoting here is a cultural shift. Indeed, to the
extent that politics is downstream from culture, political
stances will be more convincing when matched by cultural
symbolism. It would look rather absurd and self-contradictory if
an anti-Zionist wore a kippah/tallit/etc. while criticizing
Israel. Similarly, anyone wishing to present a consistent
anti-Western image must sooner or later ditch Western dress
codes.
(Moreover, wearing a Western suit (which was designed with a
cold habitat in mind) in tropical locations is just imbecilic.
Yet the fact that so many people today are willing to endure the
extreme thermal impracticality of such an outfit in their
regions just to look more like their former colonizers is a good
indication the extent of their West-worship.)
#Post#: 2248--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dress decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 16, 2020, 2:03 am
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https://www.thelily.com/cori-bush-said-shopping-for-congress-is-too-expensive-m…
[img width=1280
height=693]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/cwkBbZAHLbwL7qSrblAHY8Buh6k=/1400x0/arc-…
The question I want to ask is: why should politicians wear
business clothes? Politics is not business. Politics is statism.
Throughout the pre-colonial non-Western world, people in
government did not dress like businesspeople (and would have
been aghast at the very suggestion of doing so) because they
trivially understood the above. Only from the colonial-era
onwards (when the colonialist East/West India Company owners,
who were businesspeople, were the true overlords of the colonies
which they exploited for profit as businesspeople would) did it
become fashionable for their local puppets to dress like them
also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company_(disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_India_Company
Therefore to continue to do so is to continue to symbolically
affirm colonialism. True Leftist Gaddafi understood this (see
pictures above). Similarly, I hope to see Bush (and the rest of
the Squad, and eventually all Blue politicians) working for
America in non-business outfits in future.
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: Prite Date: November 16, 2020, 7:20 am
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I see that Assad and Erdogan still wear western suits.
The humourous thing is UAE and Bahrain leaders wear their owned.
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 16, 2020, 10:44 pm
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"I see that Assad and Erdogan still wear western suits."
They too are Eurocentrists. And that is why they are not nearly
as inspiring leaders as they could be. And I will keep
criticizing them (and Xi too) for this. We already went through
this on the old forum, you moron, so stop wasting our time.
#Post#: 3401--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dress decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 15, 2021, 11:13 pm
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgias-first-vietnamese-american-state-172614464.h…
[img]
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/p6JI2645IDyZIShuUKS3lA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRl…
OK, so what's with your Eurocentrically dyed hair?
https://smallimg.pngkey.com/png/small/129-1297667_clip-free-stock-collection-of…
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 16, 2021, 11:17 pm
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At least awareness of the issue is now going mainstream:
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/kamala-harris-sari-inauguration/index.html
[quote]the prospect of the nation's first Black and South Asian
Vice President wearing a traditional sari at any of the
inauguration events -- even if the celebrations are largely
virtual -- has offered a glimmer of positivity amid the tumult.
The question has been posed to Harris before -- during her own
presidential campaign in 2019. At an event hosted by Asian
American group, One APIA Nevada, an audience member
lightheartedly asked Harris if she would commit to wearing the
traditional Indian garment to her inauguration if she were
elected president.
...
"I wouldn't be surprised if we see her show up to the
inauguration ball in a beautifully woven Banarsi sari," fashion
designer Bibhu Mohapatra said in a phone interview from
Brunswick, Georgia. "I think she understands the power of that
image."
...
With the incoming administration facing the Herculean task of
unifying the country, Harris could use the garment as a healing
gesture, Mohapatra said.
...
The photo of a youthful, smiling Harris in a sari was, to many,
inspiring. An image of her in a sari on inauguration day could
be groundbreaking.[/quote]
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 24, 2021, 2:57 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK4DDZGeRvA
Note especially 2:40-2:52. When you superpose non-Western
clothes onto Western architecture, it creates an aesthetical
clash, which then sends the tacit message that the Western
architecture should not even be there (as indeed it should
not!). This is the propaganda power of clothing.
Hopefully one day we can demolish the current ugly House Chamber
and replace it with something that goes better with Haswood's
clothes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_pueblitos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogan
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 10, 2021, 12:00 am
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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/436073/rawiri-waititi-ejected-from-parliam…
[img]
https://www.rnz.co.nz/assets/news/255093/eight_col_Rawiri_1610.jpg?1612838358[/…
[quote]Rawiri Waititi ejected from Parliament for not wearing a
tie
...
On the first sitting day of 2021 today, Waititi arrived without
a tie. He argued that he was wearing Māori business attire
with a taonga around his neck, but Mallard said he was not
convinced by that argument.
"I am therefore going to indicate to the leader of Te Pati
Māori that I will not be calling him while he is not
wearing a tie and he is not to enter the house again not wearing
a tie," Mallard said.
...
"That is not part of my culture, ties, and it's forcing the
indigenous peoples into wearing what I describe as a colonial
noose," Waititi said.[/quote]
I like the term "colonial noose". We should use it more.
[quote]"I will not be forced to be wearing anything that I
shouldn't be wearing� Why are Pākehā making Māori
dress like they want us to dress?"
The enforced dress code is hypocritical and an example colonial
ways that suppress tangata whenua, he said.
"Parliament should be a place where we could freely practice our
democracy and represent the people that voted us in.[/quote]
But if you are able to reject ties as a Pakeha incursion, why do
you not also reject democracy as a Pakeha incursion?
(And what's with the Pakeha blazer? At least wear something
without a lapel!)
#Post#: 4140--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dress decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 11, 2021, 10:51 pm
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Victory!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-zealands-parliament-drops-tie-rule-after-maori…
Sometimes it just takes one person to take a stand.
Of course, it helps when the PM is also known for wearing local
outfits:
https://d3pbdxdl8c65wb.cloudfront.net/cloudinary/2021/Feb/01/nhLzSbi7x4JJj6pyw4…
#Post#: 4141--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dress decolonization
By: guest5 Date: February 11, 2021, 10:56 pm
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Good people really don't have any difficulty being decent and
doing the right thing do they? It's simple and easy to them.
What does this say about the rest of humanity?
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