rootX said:
It would be nice if they teach more about heritage in schools. Else, one day our heritage and culture will only be on bikinis or underwears.
Are you aware, in even the slightest sense, that different Native American tribes have different cultures? That they have occupied North America for, at the very least, 12,000 years? Do you know how many cultures would be woefully excluded from any kind of curriculum in schools, were they to take heed of your words and choose to act in your pity?
When was the last time that you gave the slightest damn about the Aleuts? The Alutiiq? The Yup'ik? How about the Inuits?
They all live in, and lived in, what we now currently call the United States of America. In what way should we implement all of their varied cultures into our education? Their thousands of years of different cultures, traditions, ideologies, religious practices, means of survival, social heriarchy; their history, their confrontations, their wars; their advancements, their inventions, their languages; their divisions, their migrations into North America, their expansion throughout the land; and finally, and apparently of the utmost importance to all whom it may concern; their thoughts of sexuality and how they feel when other people choose, in complete innocence of thought and action with regards to cultural sensitivity, to wear their head-gear?
You feign compassion, yet I see empty words. Are all scientifically literate and skeptical people entirely ignorant and dismissive of the cultures which other people have become fond of? Absolutely, undoubtedly, and undeniably no. To say otherwise is not only a blatant, injustifiable generalization, but appears to be based merely on someone's profession of choice, and their personal preference as to not believing in any sort of God or entity.
Whether or not it is culturally taboo for another Native American to steal another's headdress, and whether or not it is culturally taboo for a Native American woman to trounce around in a bikini is utterly and completely besides any point that has been made here; they are their own system, their own culture, their own beings, their own people, and they have their own ways. We are our own people, we have our own system, we have our own ways, and those ways include not only intolerance
of unjustified intolerance, but also complacency and understanding for those who choose to dress up occasionally.
This occurrence is nothing more than the opinion of people who cannot appear to handle having their feelings hurt, and who apparently are void of any comprehensive analysis skills which allow for them to determine whether or not something was meant to be offensive.
This is not an attack to those who haven chosen to defend their cause (had it not been brought to the attention of the world that some Native Americans found the model's attire offensive, then not a single one of you would have chosen to speak out against it), but against those who implanted the ideals of cultural insensitivity behind an offenseless and playful idea that an underwear and bra company thought up.
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