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Celebrating Indonesian Festival 2023 🇮🇩
ENJOY COMPLIMENTARY NASI CAMPUR (1 meat 1 vegetable) when you wear batik/Indonesian costume and spend over $20 on Sunday, 8 October 2023 🤗
🏠 644A Swanston St, Carlton
⏳ 11.30am-7.30pm
[VIC] Wear a Batik/Indonesian Costume and Spend $20, Get a Bonus Nasi Campur (1 Meat/1 Vegetable) @ Pondok Laguna (Carlton)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batik
https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/03/19/batik-and-fis…
Good old Malcolm also got that meal for free as well… :D
He put the ingredients on his expenses you reckon?
Nah Indonesia paid for it lol…
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The freebie is about $14 according to their menu.
Is this a test of some kind? I was told by my Caucasian moral superiors that this would be an act of cultural appropriation
nah man, batik ain't that deep, also we Indonesian aren't "woke". I always use it as a beach top but people never knew that it was batik cos it looks like Hawaiian shirt.
Lol, cultural appropriation is literally a term to divide us.
Don't let themHere's an example to prove that cultural appropriation is real.
Miss Saigon - a musical set around the last days of the Vietnam War and the fall of Saigon. While other countries like the USA and Australia also lost people in this war, ultimate, this story should belong to the Vietnamese people because the war was fought on their lands and the majority of casualties were Vietnamese.
The musical was written by two French men and an American, telling the story from the perspective of an American soldier and a Vietnamese girl he met at a brothel before the American forces were evacuated out of Vietnam.
The show had been frequently criticised for racist, sexist, misogynistic undertone and negative stereotyping of Asian women as whores and Asian men as money grubbers.
The final slap on the face from this musical can only be experienced by a Vietnamese speaker. Dju Vui Vay is a song featured prominently in the show during the wedding scene. The chorus lyrics are as below.
Dju vui vay
Yu doi my
Dju vui vay
Vao nyay moyThose lyrics are not Vietnamese. Dju, nyay, and Moy are not words that exist in the Vietnamese language. That chorus is gibberish. The writers admitted that they made up the words to convey a feeling.
We are talking about a major multimillion dollar production and they could not pay some native Vietnamese speakers to write or adapt a few lines? This gibberish lyrics were performed in Miss Saigon production all over the world for 28 years until 2017 when they finally corrected it.
Okay fair if that's what the term is supposed to mean. Next time you hear it when someone appreciates a culture something like wearing dreadlocks as cultural appropriation. Remind them like this too.
@thangcuoi: That's kinda the problem, People are using this term too causally.
So casually that wearing another cultures clothing might be considered this, then yeah I know I won't engage with your culture.@fadeinthemix: Sorry, I missed the most important word in my reply.
It's NOT a problem most of the time to wear another culture clothing.
Some clothing such as those only worn during significant religious or cultural practices, eg: baptism attire should never be worn by anyone who is not participate in the ceremony.
@fadeinthemix: Accidentally unpublished my comment. Original comment below with one important change.
Wearing another culture traditional clothing is NOT an issue most of the time as long as you do it with respect.
My original reply to your comment was to point out that cultural appropriation does exist.
@thangcuoi: I think we can agree just basic respect is what is needed
My original comment on how it's used online nowadays is to divide us.
https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/apfj5f/invitation_to…@fadeinthemix: Thanks for sharing the Reddit link.
I don't think I get that meme. I cannot think of any culture that would deny outsiders the chance to join in their festivities. I cannot imagine any foreigners living in Vietnam or China being told that they are not allowed to decorate their home or dress like the local (if they want) during Lunar New Year.
It helps if you have a personal connection to that culture, but even when you don't have the connection and you want to do it anyway out of curiosity, do some research and carry out the celebration with pure intentions and the utmost respect and no one can tell you not to do it.
Edit: That original post came from Twitter. The dumpster fire of social media. I would not use it as a good example of anything.
@thangcuoi: Unfortunately I've heard these statements in real life and not just Twitter.
And no I don't celebrate other people's cultures and traditions.
Was just saying it's a slippery slope if the term is used nowadays.
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Wear batik?