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Nice article. We have to cut Saloni some slack. She tried several caricatures characters before Nazma Aapi went viral. She has created several more since. It’s all in good fun especially as they are fictional characters. I think the only person who has a right to be hurt or offended should be Kangna Run Out as these are jokes being cracked on behalf of or at the expense of a public figure without her consent. And yet, here we are, offended on behalf of someone who doesnt exist!
Sorry, this article makes very little sense.
You compare her to Hasan and Lilly Singh and why this comparison is wrong is explained itself in the next sentence itself. They are making fun of their own community.
I don’t understand why we Indians still think cultural appropriation is normal. It is dangerous especially when a dominant culture appropriates from a disadvantaged culture in a society. .
Lily Singh made an entire career out of stereotyping brown parents. Hasan Minhaj, too, makes fun of NRI families. The entire appeal of Subtle Curry Traits, the immensely popular Facebook page, lies in the jokes it makes on its own community — and its various idiosyncrasies.
Lily Singh – Brown girl with Brown parents.
Hassan Minhaj – NRI
OWN community. Not some other community that you don’t belong to. See the problem now?
While videos of Zeenat and Nazma Aapi might make you laugh, you cannot overlook the gross cultural appropriation.
In short: Cultural appropriation is when somebody adopts aspects of a culture that’s not their own.
A deeper understanding of cultural appropriation also refers to a particular power dynamic in which members of a dominant culture take elements from a culture of people who have been systematically oppressed by that dominant group.
Kjerstin Johnson has written that, when this is done, the imitator, “who does not experience that oppression is able to ‘play’, temporarily, an ‘exotic’ other, without experiencing any of the daily discriminations faced by other cultures.”
While Saloni and Dolly can change their clothes and get back to their own lives, there are Muslim women who are at the receiving end of a lot of political and social situations that they comment on and make jokes about.
In times like these, when people already have a lot of misconceptions about Muslims, the portrayal of Muslim women as this uneducated, vulgar, and savage lot goes a long way into ruining the image of the community further.
Last year’s protests have helped clear up the image of Muslim women and has lifted them from the earlier helpless and oppressed perception that people had of them.
Muslim women led the protests all across the country and they won people over with their words, their confidence, and their resilience.
Characters such as Nazma Aapi and Zeenat is exactly the sort of image that Muslim women have been trying to change and this is misrepresentation at best and islamophobia at worst.
What’s more worrying is how people are rallying to support these characters.
When a person from a minority community tells you that what you’re doing is cultural appropriation and that it is offensive, if you honestly have their best interests at heart, the best thing to do would be to apologise and to take a step back and reflect.
The constant arguments show that you don’t have to like a person or respect their identity to feel entitled to take from them.
When Muslim women have to fight for acceptance with the same style of behaviour that a these women can be admired for, what message does that send to Muslim women and girls?
When you apply that make up, wear those clothes, you might feel like you’re telling their stories, but you’re not. By taking over the stories of these marginalised women, you take away the space which was meant for them. We don’t hear their actual stories, instead, we get twisted versions made funny to cater to a special sort of an audience.
You are pretending to belong to a culture that you don’t, and are drawing upon stereotypes to do so.
The stereotypes that a lot of us have spent years fighting against.
So, thank you very much.
It’s certainly not harmful or disrespectful to misrepresent people’s culture and spread the toxic myths that harm them. 🙂
I do not see the character of Najma Appi as “uneducated, vulgar, and savage”. I see her as innately intelligent housewife who understands Indian/ World politics in her own way and comments wittingly. For what it counts, she demolishes the sterotypes about poor. uneducated muslim women rather than perpetuating them.
Can you post a translated transcript of the controversial video of Gaur that the oped is for defense
Artist make caricatures of eminent personalities,no body object rather enjoyed the creativity of the artist,poet made satire in their poems nobody object, similarly we should appreciate the creativity of Saloni,she is gifted with so much of talent,let’s enjoy without thinking negative ,there is no need to be serious always ,we must take it easy and appreciate the creativity ,she intelligently portrait the serious issues in a lighter way and we should also take it lightly
Nice article. We have to cut Saloni some slack. She tried several caricatures characters before Nazma Aapi went viral. She has created several more since. It’s all in good fun especially as they are fictional characters. I think the only person who has a right to be hurt or offended should be Kangna Run Out as these are jokes being cracked on behalf of or at the expense of a public figure without her consent. And yet, here we are, offended on behalf of someone who doesnt exist!
Take a chill pill folks.
Sorry, this article makes very little sense.
You compare her to Hasan and Lilly Singh and why this comparison is wrong is explained itself in the next sentence itself. They are making fun of their own community.
I don’t understand why we Indians still think cultural appropriation is normal. It is dangerous especially when a dominant culture appropriates from a disadvantaged culture in a society. .
Lily Singh made an entire career out of stereotyping brown parents. Hasan Minhaj, too, makes fun of NRI families. The entire appeal of Subtle Curry Traits, the immensely popular Facebook page, lies in the jokes it makes on its own community — and its various idiosyncrasies.
Lily Singh – Brown girl with Brown parents.
Hassan Minhaj – NRI
OWN community. Not some other community that you don’t belong to. See the problem now?
While videos of Zeenat and Nazma Aapi might make you laugh, you cannot overlook the gross cultural appropriation.
In short: Cultural appropriation is when somebody adopts aspects of a culture that’s not their own.
A deeper understanding of cultural appropriation also refers to a particular power dynamic in which members of a dominant culture take elements from a culture of people who have been systematically oppressed by that dominant group.
Kjerstin Johnson has written that, when this is done, the imitator, “who does not experience that oppression is able to ‘play’, temporarily, an ‘exotic’ other, without experiencing any of the daily discriminations faced by other cultures.”
While Saloni and Dolly can change their clothes and get back to their own lives, there are Muslim women who are at the receiving end of a lot of political and social situations that they comment on and make jokes about.
In times like these, when people already have a lot of misconceptions about Muslims, the portrayal of Muslim women as this uneducated, vulgar, and savage lot goes a long way into ruining the image of the community further.
Last year’s protests have helped clear up the image of Muslim women and has lifted them from the earlier helpless and oppressed perception that people had of them.
Muslim women led the protests all across the country and they won people over with their words, their confidence, and their resilience.
Characters such as Nazma Aapi and Zeenat is exactly the sort of image that Muslim women have been trying to change and this is misrepresentation at best and islamophobia at worst.
What’s more worrying is how people are rallying to support these characters.
When a person from a minority community tells you that what you’re doing is cultural appropriation and that it is offensive, if you honestly have their best interests at heart, the best thing to do would be to apologise and to take a step back and reflect.
The constant arguments show that you don’t have to like a person or respect their identity to feel entitled to take from them.
When Muslim women have to fight for acceptance with the same style of behaviour that a these women can be admired for, what message does that send to Muslim women and girls?
When you apply that make up, wear those clothes, you might feel like you’re telling their stories, but you’re not. By taking over the stories of these marginalised women, you take away the space which was meant for them. We don’t hear their actual stories, instead, we get twisted versions made funny to cater to a special sort of an audience.
You are pretending to belong to a culture that you don’t, and are drawing upon stereotypes to do so.
The stereotypes that a lot of us have spent years fighting against.
So, thank you very much.
It’s certainly not harmful or disrespectful to misrepresent people’s culture and spread the toxic myths that harm them. 🙂
I do not see the character of Najma Appi as “uneducated, vulgar, and savage”. I see her as innately intelligent housewife who understands Indian/ World politics in her own way and comments wittingly. For what it counts, she demolishes the sterotypes about poor. uneducated muslim women rather than perpetuating them.
Can you post a translated transcript of the controversial video of Gaur that the oped is for defense
Another meaningless article meant to whitewash the illegal occupation of Shaheen Baug.
Take it easy, dear!
Artist make caricatures of eminent personalities,no body object rather enjoyed the creativity of the artist,poet made satire in their poems nobody object, similarly we should appreciate the creativity of Saloni,she is gifted with so much of talent,let’s enjoy without thinking negative ,there is no need to be serious always ,we must take it easy and appreciate the creativity ,she intelligently portrait the serious issues in a lighter way and we should also take it lightly