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CMV: Cultural Appropriation as in Wearing clothes/accessories of minority cultures outside of their intended purpose is not bad enough to limit the freedom to wear what you want

This is coming from a member of the most privileged group of people in the world: a straight white cisgender male, 21 years old.

After having read a lot about cultural appropriation I understand that e.g. wearing a native american headdress as a festival accessory is considered a bad and offensive thing to do. This is because you use an object that is very important and has significant cultural meaning in a completely different way than originally intended.

And plainly, I agree. However, and this is my hot take, as long as you are not actively mocking the affected culture by e.g. performing/saying/acting stereotypical things, I think that is not bad enough to justify the restriction towards your freedom to wear what you want.

I am german. If someone would go around wearing leather pants and a checkered shirt, holding a jug of beer in one hand and a bratwurst in a bun in the other, and being overly drunk and annoying, i couldn't care less. In my opinion people can wear whatever they want (with restrictions on racism, fascism etc., which already exist in society).

Now maybe that is just because german culture isn't very important to me. A Person originating from the orient may hold their culture in high regards, and therefore see someone wearing the stereotypical disney belly dancer outfit as very much offensive. I am aware that it alienates minorities from their own culture, which is of course a bad thing. Maybe, it's just the perspective I am missing.

Staying with the example of the disney belly dancer outfit, this is a very good example for the mixing of cultures. Disney picks up on the works of Orientalism and creates their own view of this outfit. Now I only speak of the outfit, not the movie and the actions performed in that movie associated with it.  
I love mixing of cultures. It creates interesting new things to see, explore and talk about. It gives people more artistic freedom. It's like adding a whole new palette of colors to a painters disposal. And it's the same with pieces of clothing and accessories. Because of this reason alone, offending a minority is justified. of course, the same goes the other way around, from minorities including majorities culture outside of it's originally intended purpose.

Now please try your best to rid me of that opinion, I sometimes have the feeling this whole viewpoint is very egotistic, and even racist.

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TL;DR: My point being, for the sake of creativity and progression of human culture, wearing clothes/accessories of minority cultures outside of their intended purpose is justified. Not good, in fact a bad thing, but not bad enough to be a reason to infringe your creativity.
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It just really depends on what the garment is, and what it does or does not represent.

Something like a Japanese *kimono* or *yukata*, does not have a particular sacred or special cultural status. They are pretty, formal clothing worn for special occasions. For this reason, tourists visiting Japan will find rental companies offering the chance for visitors to dress up and take photos while wearing these. (This is very popular with visitors from other Asian nations like China or Vietnam)

Now take Thailand as another example. You might find a few shops offering rental of traditional Thai clothing. You will not however find orange monks robes offered for tourist pictures. Likewise, you will not find these items for sale in souvenir markets etc. This mode of dress does have a sacred connotation, and thus is only appropriate for a monk to wear.

When discussing this whole thing, it would help if we didn't just lump every type of cultural garb into one category. Wearing a Scots kilt, or a German lederhosen, or a Vietnamese Ao Dai is fine. It's just fashion. Wearing a police or army uniform, a priest or monks robes, or certain crowns, head gear or tattoos etc which represent particular statuses or achievements might not be.

>wearing clothes/accessories of minority cultures

What the hell is a minority culture? China? India? Arabic? There's a hell of a lot more of those guys than Germans.