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.
I would like to add here (having South Asian blood and aunts who do wear sari), that you should probably run this by youarenotdesi to hammer out the fine points of wearing it.
Basically, you shouldn’t wear it and try to pass as someone from that culture, or speak over anyone from that culture in the “proper ways” of wearing it. Also, I think they note that you should wear it to the appropriate occasions?
In my personal opinion, though, I’d have to thank you for your politeness in asking, and not adding your own judgment already or being belligerent. :)
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