News photographers use the red and white checks more closely associated with another tribe of mass murderers -- the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia. Not cool either way, but even less so now that it has reached the mainstream i.e. movie stars :) You are right, why are they wearing loincloths up there?
i don't think there's anything wrong with wearing a scarf, even one identified with terrorists or a marginalized group (i've been looking for a traditional thai fisherman's scarf for the longest time), but people wear these things without understanding their origin or original use, just because they saw it on a big star who is equally ignorant. haha. gusto ko ng khmer rouge scarf! where to get one! when you going to china? me want pasalubong. haha.
(Miriam to Chiz: Do you not read ...?) ha ha. Somebody actually gave me an Indochinese one, still in mint condition. It's in red and black though. I'll give it to you on condition you do not enter a Vietnamese or Cambodian football stadium wearing it in case some people there are color blind. They might use it to hang you by the crossbars :)
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