If you're not actually playing mariachi then it simply is silly. Get a better costume. Just me 0.02 
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Offensive Halloween Costume
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I was seriously planning on finding a white shirt w/black horizontal stripes, a beret and a baguette and show up to my halloween gig as a frenchman. Too offensive?
I can't help but laugh at all this whining about cultural appropriation. Am I still allowed to eat Chinese food? What if I use chop sticks? Is that going too far? How many people does that disparage? Is it just the wait staff or everyone of Asian descent?
Benefits to dressing up in stereotypical mariachi garb: A few yucks.
Pitfalls of dressing up in stereotypical mariachi garb: pissing off a potential customer and possibly loosing gigs.
Which would you choose?
Pitfalls of dressing up in stereotypical mariachi garb: pissing off a potential customer and possibly loosing gigs.
Which would you choose?
the way things going on ... playing Mariachi music will also be offensive ...
That all falls under the umbrella of cultural exchange.
This is what happens when you say ignorant and hateful things like feminists are selfish. Take responsibility for your speech. You've upset people. Including me (obviously).
I'm not even sure to whom your are speaking. You sound very angry for such a young person.
If you want to talk about power structures, how about we talk about the vicarious ressentiment of your post? You assign to Mexicans the status of downtrodden victims in order to white-knight on their behalf. I rather doubt most Mexicans feel quite as victimized as you consider them, and would be less than thrilled to have you as their champion.
And some people think that because they are offended- or think others might be- that *everyone should* be offended. And that is just ignorant of others' feelings and opinions. Iam offended by nothing. Absolutely. Nothing. If you can tell me why I should be, I'd love to learn. Because the way I see it, being offended by something someone says or does gives that person power over you. One chooses to be offended, just as much as one chooses to offend (i.e., intentionally disparage). Quite frankly, I have neither the time, nor the energy, to be offended by anything.
We should start a thing called "The price is right - thread shut down edition" where we try to guess how many more posts before the mods kill a thread.
Oh so indigenous populations benefitted as much from the Columbian exchange as Europeans did?
NAFTA did as much for the Mexican economy as it did for the US?
I'll make sure to let them know when I send in my resignation as their official champion.
*knucks*
I'm handy with a soldering iron and a multi-meter too
Could I send you about twenty basses in various states of disrepair? I could pay you in vacuum tubes.
Here's how this works:
Band dressed in actual Mariachi outfits, playing Mariachi music, with no fake mustaches and no pinata = respect
Band dressed in ponchos, sombreros, and fake mustaches, with a pinata while playing Mariachi music = cultural ignorance and racism.
Sorry, that's what it is.
This concept has everything to do with cultural knowledge and respect.
Not political correctness.
Band dressed in actual Mariachi outfits, playing Mariachi music, with no fake mustaches and no pinata = respect
Band dressed in ponchos, sombreros, and fake mustaches, with a pinata while playing Mariachi music = cultural ignorance and racism.
Sorry, that's what it is.
This concept has everything to do with cultural knowledge and respect.
Not political correctness.
I'm Scandanavian. When Flavor Flav was wearing a Viking helmet on that MTV show back in the 90s, I didn't have a meltdown. I figured he was digging that aspect of the Scandanavian culture.
When non-Scandanavians wish to dress as Vikings when they go to Minnesota Viking games, that doesn't bother me me, either.
White guys dressing as Mariachis? Afrian Americans dressing as Vikings? Who cares? Get over it.
When non-Scandanavians wish to dress as Vikings when they go to Minnesota Viking games, that doesn't bother me me, either.
White guys dressing as Mariachis? Afrian Americans dressing as Vikings? Who cares? Get over it.
Here's how this works:
Band dressed in actual Mariachi outfits, playing Mariachi music, with no fake mustaches and no pinata = respect
Band dressed in ponchos, sombreros, and fake mustaches, with a pinata while playing Mariachi music = cultural ignorance and racism.
Sorry, that's what it is.
This concept has everything to do with cultural knowledge and respect.
Not political correctness.
Since you are cherry-picking your images (caricature), sorry; no it isn't. And if a pinata filled with candy and other treats isn't appropriate at a Halloween party, then when is it appropriate?
Why doesn't the OP and his mates call themselves a Mariuchi band and attend the party dresses as football coaches?
For the photos, I chose a mostly white band dressed in Mariachi outfits and white people dressed as "mexicans".
Google "Mexican costume", tell me what you find.
Second, the pinata... no, pinata's are cool, especially at a party.
Pinata plus white people dressed as "mexicans" ...not cool.
Mariachi bands exist. If Hispanic bands play Classic American Rock complete with leather and denim. Do we care? What if a Mariachi Band dressed in Lederhosen? What then?
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Could I send you about twenty basses in various states of disrepair? I could pay you in vacuum tubes.
Is it wrong that I just thought "Y'know, I could do with another project bass or two"? I swear I'm a masochist with them.
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