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Using Your Own Culture for Mermaid Costume Inspiration

2/7/2016

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​In today’s blog I want to talk to you about the role that our cultural histories can play in our mermaid persona.
 
With so much buzz about “cultural appropriation” in the media, I have been working hard to understand it and know what I should be changing about myself. It is tricky, because some things are fairly obvious, for instances… I am not an aboriginal or native person. Thus, I don’t have the right to wear a war bonnet. Wearing an “indian” costume at Halloween? Blarg!
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Other things are trickier. If I put rhinestones all over my face, am I appropriating bindis? At what point does cultural exchange cross the line to appropriation?

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