evilelitest:whoobin:I am so over people thinking that Leis look like this: A lei takes hard time and
evilelitest:whoobin:I am so over people thinking that Leis look like this: A lei takes hard time and vigorous work. We (Hawaiians) wake up at the crack of dawn to gather whats needed to make the lei that we want. It can take hours or days to make the leis and Hawaiian’s make leis with only good intentions and love because they believe that if you make a lei with malicious intent it will come out into the lei. There is many different ways to make leis and we also make leis from shells and feathers. It isn’t only Hawai’i that makes leis but throughout Polynesia fellow Polynesians make leis in their own style. To call the above image a lei is disrespectful to my culture and I want that shit to stop. That isn’t a lei, the images in the photoset are leis. Ok, see SJW this is the stuff you should be talking about when you mention “Cultural Appropriation” its not people wearing an outfit, its wearing a cheap dumbed down version of it. The problem is cultural trivialization, reducing something really complicated and beautiful into something cheap and mass produced. -- source link