Anonymous asked: What's the difference between a Japanese person enjoying Oktoberfest in Lederhosen/Dirndl and a white girl in Japan enjoying a Japanese festival in a kimono?

thisisnotjapan:

I don’t know if I should just keep trying to educate and honestly respond to this question for the 1000th time or just say fuck off

this question is SO irritating, either you honestly don’t believe in white privilege or think history has no bearing on current events/are clueless to how powerful and celebrated white european cultures are or you are purposely playing dumb because you think this stupid question will stump me, either way it’s not worth my time.

Please write a research paper on how non-white cultures across the globe have been persecuted under colonialism and white supremacy, what white privilege is, write a summery of bell hooks Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance, how Japanese women are affected by orientalist stereotypes surrounding our traditional clothing, and then get back to me