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.

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[ohwutevernvm]

[carbons]

hooooly shit

[dinosaur]

arschloch

[lazmy]

he always has been and always will be

[kimoto]

I'm dutch and I see native inspired headdresses way too often. At festivals for one. I can't speak for germany but in Holland people often don't see the problem. We don't really get the history here at school. Only a tiny bit in maybe the second year of highschool. Culture appropriation just doesn't seem to be discussed that often unless it happens here.

It's sad but a lot needs to change for people to become aware.

[angelic_white]

Fellow Dutchie here. I've tried to explain that too often that here people see nothing wrong with wearing a headdress because we were never taught it is seen as offensive to Native Americans. But right now the country makes me sick anyway with the Zwarte Piet discussion :/ People seem so convinced they have the right to discriminate because they don't find it hurtful to those affected.

[kimoto]

The zwarte piet discussion is so embarrassing. I can't believe how angry people get about it. It's something to easy to change and something so obviously racist that I just don't get all the response.

[comava]

People seem so convinced they have the right to discriminate because they don't find it hurtful to those affected.

WORD

[foryoursake08]

to be fair, it's not like Americans are educated on cultural appropriation either. It's outside of the education system that people learn, cause God knows we just gloss over the genocide of the Native population and how they're still treated terribly in the present day.

[kimoto]

I had to be a NA for the peter pan musical and throw around flower leafs and do some dance. At least there was no problematic makeup.

[pon_pon_pink]

someone said it before in another post. i don't think sugar skull/la catrina makeup is offensive, the offensive part is that people who mock mexicans nonstop suddenly take that because it's edgy and cute and wear it for the night while not knowing anything about it AND still making fun of mexicans. I'm mexican myself and the amount of friends and acquaintances doing the Catrina makeup this year had me shaking my head so friggin much because I know those people and know they give NO FUCKS about Mexico.