Randa Jarrar is a hypocritical cunt

[Fidel_Castronaut]

To understand my frustration, you have to read through these piles of shit, I'm sorry for that.

Why I can't stand white belly dancers

I still can’t stand white belly dancers

She takes the hypocrisy award for the beginning of the year, what a vile woman! Since when did it become impossible for women, who aren't caucasian, to be racist? Jarrar claims that she isn't, when her writings prove the opposite. Imagine if a white woman (Loki forbid, man!) would have written these pieces about something "exclusively meant for white people". Yeah, the shitstorm would have been massive. I find this both amusing and infuriating.

Honey I don't think that's what she meant. As a brown woman I can I say it's not cultrual melting that most people have a problem with. It's the light fingered privileged way it's done. Like when white teenagers lock their hair, wear sag their pants, and listen to too much rap.

I don't see any problem whatsoever. Culture is not something that can be 'protected'. It's an invented description of something that people find hard to conceptualise. I can prove that, too. Define 'culture'. The issue is when people begin trying to erect barriers against one another using culture as the excuse. It creates otherism to such an extent that we begin to see the exact thing we want to avoid; ghettoisation, segregation, racism, xenophobia, etc.

Culture, imho, is a nonsense term. Humans have evolved by copying the behaviours and trends of others not within their social/family circle. Belly dancing may have originated somewhere in the Middle East (VERY debatable, I've seen no evidence of this), just as bungee jumping originated in the Pentecost Islands, Skiing from Austria (or wherever). It doesn't matter. IF people have attached too much 'cultural' significance to a behaviour/act/past time, and have then gotten the impression that they then 'own' it because of the lottery of heredity birth (I was born in Yemen and have brown skin so only I can do this) then it's them whose wrong, not the people emulating it.