Offensive Halloween Costumes: Tokio Hotel Edition

[lazmy]

Tokio Hotel's guitarist Tom Kaulitz decided to be a Native American warrior for Halloween. Complete with a fake nose, headdress, beads and battle wounds he completes his look as Tokio Hotel's culturally insensitive douchebag.

Comments

[2wiceasnice]

Where are they from again?

Not surprised tbh.

[kittymink]

Naziland

[bemythugtonight]

fuck off. take a history class and educate you on this subject. i'm not even german but this comment is tasteless and offensive.

[minakuu]

go watch some pony show

[hadefuldtkind]

stop.

[coconutoil]

smh

[helloneworld]

Poor Germans and white people.

[chaidactict]

come on now

[tiny_winey87]

he could have easily have come from the USA too though... can't combat ignorance with more ignorance.

[patiently]

seriously? grow up.

[bangorilla]

they are right tho
I live in Germany and no one here gives zero fucks about cultural appropriation. have you ever seen the carnival parades here? little children are painted in blackface, do you expect the germans to care about native americans?

[lovelylaura23]

No offense intended, but Germany's *~Indianer~* fascination is so cringe-worthy.

[tante_trude]

I was gonna say that! I am German and Germany's obsession with native americans is nagl. Everytime I bring up how offensive it is, I get shrugged off, too.

[bangorilla]

no it really is, ita (though I don't consider myself German or anything, I was only born here)

[meranii_raushu]

It's such a weird, ultra-idealized version of the "noble savage". The concept of the "Indianer" has become that of an almost mythical creature, brave and free-spirited and blahblahblah.

I'm almost convinced that if you asked the average German person on the street "Do Indianer still exist?", half of them would say they're still roaming the prairie all nobly in their headdreses, and the other half would say they don't exist anymore.

[kitsch_deluxxe]

I think its not only Germany but Europe in general. But its always easier to pick on the Germans..