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A museum in California, as part of Asian American Heritage Month, puts on display a set of kimonos and invites museum attendees to try them on. Asian-American activists protest the event as a form of cultural appropriation, and point to the runway event, above. Most of the activists were born in America, and come from a variety of Asian ethnicities. There is, however, a counterprotest, by Japanese-born immigrants, who point out that kimonos are, in Japanese culture, a gift object, intentionally created to be worn by outsiders. What should the museum do? | A museum in California, as part of Asian American Heritage Month, puts on display a set of kimonos and invites museum attendees to try them on. Asian-American activists protest the event as a form of cultural appropriation, and point to the runway event, above. Most of the activists were born in America, and come from a variety of Asian ethnicities. There is, however, a counterprotest, by Japanese-born immigrants, who point out that kimonos are, in Japanese culture, a gift object, intentionally created to be worn by outsiders. What should the museum do? | ||
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Part of [[Prompt 07: CC4r case studies]] (C. Thi Nguyen) | |||
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A museum in California, as part of Asian American Heritage Month, puts on display a set of kimonos and invites museum attendees to try them on. Asian-American activists protest the event as a form of cultural appropriation, and point to the runway event, above. Most of the activists were born in America, and come from a variety of Asian ethnicities. There is, however, a counterprotest, by Japanese-born immigrants, who point out that kimonos are, in Japanese culture, a gift object, intentionally created to be worn by outsiders. What should the museum do?
Part of Prompt 07: CC4r case studies (C. Thi Nguyen)
