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Originally posted by AggieSigmaNu361
says who?
I have ALWAYS heard it referred to as a do-rag, and i grew up with white people. We would laugh at the white trash folks and their do-rags. When my hair was longer in HS i would wear one around the house and my grandmother would tell me to take my do-rag off. So, i'm sorry if some other culture in America has taken the phrase 'do-rag' and made it "THEIRS". I will heretofore ask permission of all cultures before i use any phrases that they may also use.
traditional cultural dress does NOT equal hip hop dress. I'm sorry, but it doesn't. thousands of years of tradition do NOT equal 10 years of exposed boxers.
Why is hip hop fashion soley a racial issue? i posit that you see just as many white or hispanic or indian kids wearing this clothing as black kids. The majority of the young people on the rez up here wear that crap, so by saying i think it's stupid i am NOT saying that one race's culture is stupid.
Kitso
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I'm glad your family was so equal opportunity, but honestly? If you take a survey of the average American, the connotation the majority of them would have with the word "do rag" would either be of a black person, or of a person of another race imitating what they consider to be black culture. The term "do rag" originated with African-Americans (originally it was used by African women in slavery; it was the thing they put over their hair while they conditioned it to straighten it) . . . thus no, blacks are not taking an aspect of American culture and making it "theirs," the rest of Americans are taking an aspect of black culture and making it THEIRS. Let's not get started on cultural appropriation.