sophisticatedfangirling:

ourqueenfelinefatale:

sophisticatedfangirling: ourqueenfelinefatale: I swear with all this whitewashing going on, white people are soon gonna give their kids Japanese names just of the *aesthetic* of it all. oh the evil! what a horrible idea!

Yeah it is. Naming your child something that you don’t have full understanding of just because you like the way it sounds or because it’s the new trend, is a terrible thing to do. Not only are you disrespecting someone’s culture, you’re acting as if your child is some sort of accessory. They’ll have that name for life, or at least until they have the right to change it. Before they even know what it means, you’re using them as a living example of cultural appropriation. Tho I doubt you’ll get this. One look at your blog and I can tell you’re not the type to want to respect anyone if it gets in the way of getting what you want.

it is impossible to “disrespect a culture” - respect is for people, ideas are free for ridicule and reinterpretation. giving someone a pretty name is not acting like your child is an accessory. cultural appropriation is a concept entirely based on emotional appeal and a misunderstanding of what culture is.

if this is really what you think about me after looking at my blog, it looks like a bunch of projections. i actually come from a place of giving people the benefit of the doubt and constantly doubting myself. i have another opinion than you on this subject, precisely because i am not gullable enough to believe authoritarian collectivist shit - because i care about people. no matter how you frame it, your attempts to undermine everything valuable about our civilizations evolution is not gonna get through the cracks on the basis of emotional manipulation.

