A YouTuber from South Korea filmed herself removing braids after commenters accused her of culturally appropriating the hairstyle, a concept she’d never heard of.
a korean youtuber (xoxosophia) educated herself about dreads, box braids, and cornrows after receiving criticism on her previous video where she got box braids. she then made an apology/informational video about cultural appropriation while removing her braids. pic.twitter.com/s8zYSW1iL7
— ً (@yongtual) April 22, 2019
In a video uploaded last week titled, “Why do Koreans call box braids reggae hair?” vlogger xoxosophia apologized to black people as she cut her hair, explaining the Western concept of cultural appropriation, which has been promoted by leftist social justice warriors, was not familiar to Koreans.
“I don’t think many of us living in Korea are not aware of the concept yet,” reads a rough English translation of the video.
“The word ‘cultural appropriation’ appears a lot in the comments,” xoxosophia said. “Think of it as abuse of other cultures. This hairstyle has been around for very long time, and historically meaningful to the black culture.”
— ً (@yongtual) April 22, 2019
Elsewhere in the video xoxosophia says she learned black people “get kicked out from work” for wearing their hair in braids, while people of other races wear the hairstyle to look cool.
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