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Utah Student Accused Of Cultural Appropriation After Posting Prom Pictures In Chinese Dress

View image on TwitterUtah senior Keziah Daum, 18, thought that she was sharing a pictures from a wonderful prom from Woods Cross High School.  The pictures show Daum in a beautiful Chinese Choengsam (also known as a qipao) dress, a creative and striking choice for this important event.  The posting however unleashed a torrent of criticism of Daum for “cultural appropriation” because she is not Chinese.  I have been a long critic of the “cultural appropriation” protests on campuses, but this case is particularly maddening and absurd.We have seen an ever-widening array of “microaggressions”  and cultural appropriations.  We discussed a basketball game where a player was attacked due to wearing braids that 20-year-old Hispanic student, Carmen Figueroa, claimed to be cultural misappropriation.  Then there was the controversy at Pitzer College where white female students were warned to take off big hoop earrings as cultural appropriation.  Then there were the students at Oberlin declared the serving of sushi as cultural appropriation while  a white student was assaulted at San Francisco State University for wearing dreadlocks by an African American student.

Daum’s prom pictures were posted on April 22 with the simple caption, “PROM.” It is telling that people seeing these lovely pictures of young people enjoying a special event would instead see a cultural or racist slight.

70 thoughts on “Utah Student Accused Of Cultural Appropriation After Posting Prom Pictures In Chinese Dress”

  1. This nonsense regarding cultural appropriation is of the same flavor that is found with religious fanatics that cause so much pain and suffering. People who have little else going for them, looking for flaws, when they should be reveling in the rich tapestry of the cultures that make up this world, can only be seen as superficial distractions. Hopefully they will not endure.

    On another note, that dress works best on a long, slim, mysterious looking woman. This girl, while gorgeous and full of life, has a bu** that’s too voluptuous. Did I cross a line there?

    1. Isaac, what are the young men doing with those hand signs they’re making in the group picture? I swear. My own culture is completely and totally lost on me, these days. What’s it mean? What’s it mean?

      1. Annie – are you actually asking issac to tell you what gang signs those boys are flashing?

        1. Gang [noun] from Old English gang “a going, journey, way, passage,” and Old Norse gangr “a group of men, a set,” both from Proto-Germanic *gangaz (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Danish, Dutch, Old High German, German gang, Old Norse gangr, Gothic gagg “act of going”), from PIE root *ghengh- “to step” (source also of Sanskrit jangha “shank,” Avestan zanga- “ankle,” Lithuanian žengiu “I stride”).

          Just look at how many cultures have appropriated the signs for gang.

    2. issac – I think we know what your fantasy life is. 😉

  2. Haute couture-al appropriation

    I too am a cultural appropriator. My most recent acquisition was a 4,000 year old Nal Culture terra cotta bowl from the Indus Valley and an even more insidious appropriation of a fertility idol of that time period, the latter certainly being exploitative of women and promoting the patriarchy. I adorned the desk in my office with the idol along with a painted bull which exploits animals. I also appropriated a tribal Yahyali rug that I brought back from Turkey in the 1990s which I most shamefully display in my living room.

    Prior to meeting my wife, I engaged in cultural appropriation by dating a woman from Indonesia and another from South Korea. Worse, I ate their cuisine and liked it.

    When I was three years old I appropriated a pair of cowboy boots and a hat. I also had a cap gun, which surprisingly didn’t command me to go on a killing spree.

  3. You would think wearing something conservative, like a Mormon prairie dress could work.

    Nope. Not according to these Mormon polygamist wives. They all wear prairie dresses.

    1. Seven of them, one for every day of the week? Maybe they have M T W Th Fr S S tattooed on them, in some appropriate spot.

  4. IMO, we should pass a law against this Cultural Appropriation. Close all of the Chinese, Indian, and Italian restaurants. Kick Black and Asian players off of our American Football Teams .. forbid Black women from dying their hair blond. After that we should change the First Amendment to make Frivolous Claims by Idiotic Left Wing members of the Victimization and Discrimination Industry a Felony offense with the punishment being they must forever wear only the clothing and eat only the foods their forefathers wore and ate. 😉

  6. So tell me, is it cultural appropriation when I eat pasta or Chinese food or fried chicken? Is it cultural appropriation when none white wear jeans? Why do they sell qipao to anybody if it is to call it cultural appropriation, then?
    Cultural appropriation is Israel army committing genocide in Gaza and making Palestinian food their own.

    1. D, if the Israeli army is committing “genocide,” then they have failed miserably as the population of Arabs living in Israel has continued to grow rapidly. As for certain foods that you assume were created by Arabs, there’s no support that they invented felafel or hummus, though they did eat a lot of those foods and made it part of their eating traditions. The felafel sandwich, however, was invented by Israelis, and they were responsible for marketing felafel and hummus worldwide, while the Arabs have only succeeded in marketing petroleum and terrorism. Furthermore, to test the quality of Arab vs. Israeli felafel, I decided to personally test who makes the better product by going to the best Arab and Israeli felafel joints. The best Arab felafel hands down was Mamoun’s in Greenwich Village. And the best Israeli felafel hands down was Taim, also in Greenwich Village, though a good walk away from Mamoun’s. And in a head-to-head contest, Taim wins hands down for the best felafel sandwich in New York, though Mamoun’s does make a very tasty hot tea beverage.

  7. Alex Delarge: “Sheep thought I…”
    ~+~
    SJW automatons at their worst. They can never simply leave people alone. A young woman adorns a lovely dress and they have to virtue signal and berate her. (probably because their purple-dyed, braided armpit hair and size 37 dress size doesn’t exactly compact into a slender cheongsam–hence the jealousy and outrage.)

    Our host often voices “The answer to offensive speech is more speech.” I generally agree but I add that the answer to idiocy is to ignore what they say and go on to an enjoyable life and virtuous pursuits.

    1. Darren, your body shaming of individuals that you argue are criticizing this young lady’s heinous cultural misappropriation is unacceptable.

  9. I have a simple solution to this silly problem of cultural misappropriation. We must have a federal law enacted which specifies what kind of clothing people may wear, what kind of foods they can eat, what kinds of homes they can live in, what kinds of furniture, cars, and other property they may possess, what kind of music they may listen to, and any other such criteria based on the racial and national origin of each individual and as decided by a specially created Ministry of Culture Enforement. Problem solved.

    1. Don de Drain – you would have never survived high school if they got rid of clothes. 🙂 I know you are thinking about it now. 😉

    2. Don de Drain said, “Stop cultural appropriation by stop wearing clothes!”

      Don, that’s not supposed to happen until “The Rapture.” All nudist colonies appropriate the culture of “Left Behind” readers.

  11. What is wrong with her wearing this dress. She looks amazing. The ones who criticized her are insane.

  13. Maybe “Jeremy” needs to change his given name. And chastise his parents…

    All these little fits and petty weeping episodes are so boring

  14. You know like when there is a mass shooting event, there is always the same crowd of idiots who start posting like crazy that it was a false flag operation, and the victims are all actors? Well, you have the same thing here, where the same group of idiots look for something “cultural appropriation-y” to complain about.

    It is just a form of dumb entertainment for both groups, and a chance for the members of the group to communicate with each other.

    Because what does cultural appropriation even mean??? And why is it a “bad” thing???

    Squeeky Fromm
    Girl Reporter.

  15. Did anyone else notice that in the photo on the stairs, that over the girl’s right shoulder we can see the chiseled inscription for the Supreme Court? I hope they weren’t there to answer charges for being culturally insensitive. The Khmer Rouge judges will sentence them to a re-education camp.

  16. The girl is beautiful, and since she appears to be Hispanic, which is classified as the Mongoloid race, I suppose she can wear any Asian clothes she wants to, hahaha.

    1. TIN – who cares what her race is, she looks great in that dress. Every Saturday my wife and I go to the library and then eat out where we culturally appropriate the culture of another society. Last Saturday it was the culture of China that we appropriated. Last night our HOA had our monthly food trucks and I culturally appropriated pulled pork while my wife appropriated a burrito.

      There are some things I will not culturally appropriate. I draw the line at pickled pig’s feet, sushi and beef jerky. 😉 A person has to have standards, you know.

    1. enigma – the boys are flashing gang signs and the girls are trying to have a good time. 😉

    2. To me they don’t “represent” anything other than kids goofing around; the boys playing tough guys and the girls playing angels. Try not to read too much into it….

      1. TIN – I didn’t read anything into it. I asked what it meant? If those are “gang signs” like Paul suggests, what could possibly go wrong?

        1. Enigma – It’s in Utah. They’re probably all Mormons. Nothing is going to go wrong.

          1. TIN – haven’t you heard of the Mountain Meadows Massacre? If not, check it out. Those Mormons are not squeaky clean. 😉

            1. Scary stuff, EIB. But it didn’t show any hand signs.

              1. TIN – I just wanted to point out that Utah has plenty of gangs, one of which might take umbrage about those fellas having a little fun fronting, if those indeed were gang signs, I don’t know.

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