RFPD 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Police Car, Acculturation, Cultural Appropriation
Document Summary
At times, commoditization of fashion meets with resistance. Some people find co-opting of sacred and important markers of ethnic identity by the fashion industry to be disingenuous. People argue that it degrades ethnicity into a mere costume party. Cultural appropriation is the adoption or rather theft of icons, rituals, aesthetic standards, and behavior from one culture or subculture by another. Power dynamic in which members of a dominant culture take elements from a culture of people who are a subculture or have been systematically oppressed by that dominant group e. g: South asian particularly (particularly india, pakistan, bangladesh, nepal, sri. It is reserved for the most powerful and influential members among the tribe. Majority choose a store based on quality vs. price of product. Households spend 22% more on general apparel items than the general population. Beauty standards includes a more rounded silhouettte for women. The average family size is 3. 8 compared to 3. 1 for non-hispanics.