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

[hotbritishguys]

cultural appropriation isn't real, it's offensive because it's a stereotype not because it's ~stealing from another culture~ tbh

[fantaesticbaby]

smh tokio hotel i was routing for you

[arielazul_22]

i think the fake nose is even more offensive than the headdress tbh. like native americans can't have slim noses or some shit...ugh.

[kimoto]

I agree.

[lazmy]

that, and the slit neck, are what got to me the most :|

[ty]

It's more like he just threw some costume and prosthetics together that do not make any sense

[asa_chan]

I dread carnival (like Mexican costumes) every year and Europe as a whole doesn't educate enough on cultural appropriation and blackface.

It's super sad to hear more and more about Neonazi stuff on the news.

But ppl here really like to use it as the opportunity to label Europe as super racist on the whole while seemingly ignoring that Americans often do it to.

[kajsa87]

There's a serious lack of awareness regarding issues such as cultural appropriation and racism in Germany. It's not like the average German would actually act in a racist way, attacking somebody in the streets because they're black or something like that, but they don't understand that certain thought patterns are racist, too, and that using blackface isn't okay because they don't know the meaning of it all. In cases such as this one can be sure that they don't mean any harm and don't want to offend anyone. People dress up as native Americans, cowboys, stuff like that all the time and don't consider it problematic in any way. I think a lot of this is due to the fact that there are not a lot of non-white (or non-white-looking) people in Germany so noone really ever felt the need to adress these things. Xenophobia (towards people coming to Germany mainly from Eastern European countries) and, more recently, islamophobia (which is at the rise at the moment which is extremely sad, stupid and depressing especially considering our history)

[ty]

Thank you for taking the time to write that, it is very informative

[lazmy]

I wish your comment was on the first page because it's really enlightening for those who don't know much about Germany.
Comments like the one calling Germany "Naziland" make me really sad
some people think that one ignorant/racist statement will cancel out another but all it does is push everything back and make things worse.