miseengarde:

my mama used to wear her hair in a loooong braid, colourful shiny langas, have dangly gold bindis falling onto her forehead, a nose ring with a chain but she would get treated awfully by whites, talked down to, stared at and have rude comments thrown at her so she stopped. 

but white people can do this and not have any of the flack given to my mom.

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    It’s sad seeing how...has become so ”trendy”...”hip” on...
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    i don’t wear indian clothes when i’m out and about in suburbia for this same reason.
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    and then white girls get angry when I treat their obsession with South Asian culture as an obsession with something...
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  11. ldskfj said: my grandmother and mother have to uncomfortably wear american clothing when they’re at the airport to avoid trouble.. fuck society and its double standards
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