People wanna complain about anything and everything these days, made easy by the access to internet. And it’s getting kinda boring tbh.
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It had good intentions and was supposed to deter use of cultural attire as means of mockery i.e. don’t dress as a monk or an African tribe person during Halloween.
or take something from a different culture & repackage it as something new. Like the whole Scandinavian Scarf <> Dupatta saga.
People just don’t know when not to use it. Wearing an attire of a different culture to celebrate & experience it is not cultural appropriation.
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I think they do it just to give you something to complain about.
Who’s complaining?
I was asking a reasonable question.
What’s this about?
Some fashion retail outlet took a regular accessory from Indian subcontinent fashion and named it Scandanavian Scarf. (The flowy piece of garment on the girl on the right in the screenshot)
Here’s the thing: no one’s saying white women can’t wear dupattas. I don’t believe that culture must be gated or kept rigid. But there’s a difference between cross-cultural admiration and commercial appropriation. Wear it, love it, even make it your own, but don’t pretend it was born in a Swedish design studio. Don’t erase the hands that passed it down.
A lot of Asian/African fashion elements gets renamed & given a Western origin.
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I agree with what you say but cultural appropriation works both ways, in all different cultures and surely that is a good thing.
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Genuinely why is that generation so soft. We all felt like this before and everyone else just gets on with it. Why can’t they 
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I’d bet that two in five young workers have always taken time off 
You’re far too young to be in your “old man yells at younger generation” era 
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I’m in the middle of a 26 month period of sickness due to stress and burnout.
It’s no joke, no matter when it hits you, stress and exhaustion leads to further health problems, I wish I’d gone off earlier before the Anxiety became stress, then panic, then colitis, then hypertension. That’s why this old man won’t be yelling at the younger generation and certainly only if there’s a nearby toilet what with my dodgy bowels.
I would imagine leaving school, college or university in debt and looking at living for 10 years with your parents while you save up for a deposit on a house in a gig ecomony that favours short-term and zero hours contracts in a world and climate that’s going to shit? Yeah that’s a pretty stressful start to your adult life.
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On the flip side, I am also impressed with this generation. Their attitude towards life, professionalism and willingness to learn is quite high compared to me when I was their age.
They understand technology so quickly.
because they went to work in a pandemic armed with bin bags for protection and saw our colleagues die terrible deaths.
And now they get abused by the alcoholic they have to see in a corridor with another 40 to see.
The nhs is the worst it has ever been and nobody seems to want to do anything about it. That is why so many are burnt out.
I am burnt out
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That isn’t based on just NHS workers it was an NHS survey.
I don’t see how they can deal with technology any better than me tbh.
Maybe not better but definitely for a longer time on any given work day.
100% agree.
Never heard about this but sounds like typical marketing bullshit, throw in whatever with ‘rolls dice’ Swedish or Scandinavian but oopsey in something Indian this one time who cares because the point is it’s conceptually exotic and we’re selling a feeling.
Genuinely interested what do you mean by longer?
Your work hour restrictions of course!