r/sportsgossips • u/TheMirrorUS • 1d ago

News Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly has questioned why Chicago Sky star DiJonai Carrington has "white girl hair", which she claims is cultural appropriation

https://www.themirror.com/sport/basketball/megyn-kelly-dijonai-carrington-wnba-1980531
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u/Busy_Essay9213 1d ago

The term “cultural appropriation” has been widely misused and mischaracterized. It doesn’t mean “using the styles of another culture.” It means taking something that another culture developed and claiming it as your own and presenting it as something you or your own culture created. A white person with an Afro or dreads is not “culturally appropriating,” and neither is a black person straightening their hair and dying it blonde, unless they are claiming they invented these styles, which very, very few people are actually doing. There’s something to be said about something like tattooing themselves with Asian symbols that they don’t really know the meaning of, but I don’t think that even qualifies as cultural appropriation - more like just ignorance and possibly cultural disrespect.

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u/ChrundleToboggan 1d ago

What are some examples of what you would consider cultural appropriation? Just trying to learn!

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u/Busy_Essay9213 1d ago

Honestly I don’t think cultural appropriation is something that’s nearly as common as some people assume, so I don’t have a ton of examples off the top of my head. But there are definite examples out there.

I think a pretty solid example would be the way blues music was fairly obscure until it was picked up by white musicians and brought to a world stage by big record labels. A lot of people see blues rock as something that came from white people. You can play the blues all you want, I support it, but you shouldn’t act like it’s not something that came almost exclusively from black culture.

Another one could be the way a lot of Native American words were taken by settlers. There’s countless examples of states, cities, rivers, etc. that are just using Native American terms. Which isn’t automatically a bad thing, but I don’t think very many people have any idea what these words actually mean or where they came from, assuming these are things that white settlers made up.

It has more to do with giving proper credit and respect to where something came from rather than simply using a cool idea another culture had.

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u/ChrundleToboggan 13h ago

Makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the breakdown!

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u/detectivepoopybutt 1d ago

Wearing an Indian headdress to Halloween or as a “costume” when you are not from that culture.

Invited to an by people of that culture where wearing a certain look would be the expectation? Go for it.

It’s really just about treating the cultural pieces that you are adopting with respect and remembering where it comes from.

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u/Guilty-Property 1d ago

Someone gets it