What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

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muskratlove asked: trying to double check that this is okay, but my mom was an exchange student to sri lanka and is still in touch with the host family and they made me my own sari. is it cultural appropriation for me to wear it?

Bearing in mind that I’m neither Sri Lankan nor from a sari-wearing culture, my instinctive answer is this: you can’t appropriate what’s freely given. That’s the point. Though there’s clearly a wider context to wearing something from another culture, if you’re not wearing it as a costume, but just as a piece of clothing, out of respect and affection for the people who gave it to you, then no: I don’t think there’s a problem.  

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