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⌈ Secret Post #5343 ⌋

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Qipao. Are. For. Everyone.

[raspberryrain]

I will say this over and over again. It's just a dress, it's not some sacred Chinese-only thing.

Qipao are for everyone.

Re: Qipao. Are. For. Everyone.

[(Anonymous)]

Same with Kimono. I mean, the name literally means "thing to wear".
But yeah, the people complaining are rarely from the Asian country these clothes belong to anyway.

Re: Qipao. Are. For. Everyone.

[(Anonymous)]

Literally one of the first things my host family did when I was an exchange student in Japan was dress me up in a kimono and take me to a shrine for pictures, so whenever I see people trying to claim that Japanese people don't like foreigners wearing kimono, it just makes me laugh.

Re: Qipao. Are. For. Everyone.

[(Anonymous)]

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Same! And one family from the exchange even bought their exchange student a kimono as a gift to take home. 15 yo me was very jealous of that.

Re: Qipao. Are. For. Everyone.

[(Anonymous)]

Above-thread anon has a point. People in China and Japan are happy to share their clothes with foreigners because they're not marginalized for how they look or dress in their own countries. But nobody talks about how Westerners of Chinese and Japanese descent feel.

Re: Qipao. Are. For. Everyone.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean yes, sure and there absolutely are instances where those things are not okay (see: all the slutty costume versions) but it's still disproportionately non-Asian people who complain about regular clothes being worn in a regular way. (And also only when white people do it, there tends to be radio silence when other POC appropriate traditional Asian dress.)

Re: Qipao. Are. For. Everyone.

[(Anonymous)]

Not singling you out specifically, because I do think you’re coming from a good place. But there is nothing wrong with wearing non-ceremonial clothing from another culture. The very small minority of Asian Americans who have issues with it are generally working through issues over how they relate to their own ethnic heritage that are bleeding over into how other people relate to it. Anons above and below you are right that it is almost always white people who try to claim otherwise, which is not surprising considering that the argument originally came from people whose response to “quit using our sacred objects/practices as party games” was “well then I guess we can’t eat tacos or sushi anymore either or we’ll be arrested by the PC police!” It has been so frustrating to see racist counterarguments be embraced by people who mean well and don’t know any better. But think about it. If a white person can walk into Chinatown and buy a qipao from multiple clothing stores with no argument , wearing the qipao is probably not the culturally fraught issue that you think it is.