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I was meaning to start a topic about this for a while, but delayed. Then I just came across this story:
www.cp24.com/news/watch-cut-off-turban-to-look-like-a-canadian-racist-man-tells-singh-1.4620893Singh is a practising Sikh who wears a turban.
It was the turban that prompted a man to confront Singh as he walked through Montreal's Atwater market this morning.
The man told Singh he should cut his turban off so he would “look like a Canadian.”
Singh replied that Canadians look like all kinds of people and that's the beauty of the country.
The older man was undaunted, telling Singh that “in Rome you do what the Romans do.”
If so, then the bigot should be wearing this in Canada:
But he does not, and we all know why not.
Eurocentrism in dress codes needs to go. For example, here is Akihito Yamato with Elizabeth Windsor (incoming humiliation alert!):
Can you imagine Elizabeth wearing Japanese formal wear to meet Akihito? Neither can I. And that's the point. There is no sovereign parity here. The clothes alone tell the whole watching world who is the colonizer and who has been colonized.
(In fact Elizabeth did visit Japan:
Not only did she obviously not wear Japanese formal wear, but ironically you cannot even tell from the photo that she is in Japan due to the wholly Western architecture in the background.)
In contrast, here is an example of how a decolonized head of state dresses when meeting Western heads of state (watch and learn!):
This is what it means to have national pride. This is also why they killed him and installed (sartorial Eurocentrist) Sarraj in Libya instead:
The issue is not just about heads of state. All anti-Westerners should make a point of disdaining Western dress codes at every suitable opportunity:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_dress_codes
(Counterculture fashion is fine, of course.)
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What we are promoting here is a cultural shift. Indeed, to the extent that politics is downstream from culture, political stances will be more convincing when matched by cultural symbolism. It would look rather absurd and self-contradictory if an anti-Zionist wore a kippah/tallit/etc. while criticizing Israel. Similarly, anyone wishing to present a consistent anti-Western image must sooner or later ditch Western dress codes.
(Moreover, wearing a Western suit (which was designed with a cold habitat in mind) in tropical locations is just imbecilic. Yet the fact that so many people today are willing to endure the extreme thermal impracticality of such an outfit in their regions just to look more like their former colonizers is a good indication the extent of their West-worship.)
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