#culture appreciation

[wawe-z]

Hi, I saw your reblog in the notes on that sharing cultures post, I’d love to hear about how you celebrate Ramsan (is that another way to say Ramadan, or something different?) vs. how other people celebrate, if you still wanna talk about it :)

Hey, thanks for the ask! I’m always willing to share abt my culture so I’m definitely willing to keep sharing! <3

So, to answer your first question, Ramsan is another way of saying Ramadan. What I think is that the meaning of both differs on context. Ramsan is the fasting and the practicing of the holiday and Ramadan is just the name. Both can be used, I’m more familiar with Ramsan though.

Celebration is the most exciting part! Ramsan is a time to be grateful for what you have and appreciate everything that you’ve been given. I like to think that for every family, there is a slightly different way of celebrating.

Personally, we pray before Sehri (wake up) then we eat as much as we can as a family (usually whatever we have in the house because there is REALLY bad desi food where I live) and head to bed. It’s required by the Quran to have literally nothing enter your body (e.i; sex, eating, water, possibly injections, and etc). For more serious Muslims, like my mom, they pray five times a day (which should be everyday normally) but I, regrettably, only pray twice; before and after I wake up. For Ifthar (opening fast) we pray before out meal and eat until we sleep. I usually keep snacking for a few hours after we eat. Honestly, my family is really lenient on tradition.

Eid is really fun! This is where me and other families have the most differences. Most people head of the Mosque to celebrate w the community but my family is a lot more private haha. We usually stay at home and have a big dinner w traditional foods OR we go visit our family in Karachi! I love celebrating with my grandma, she knows the real way to celebrate *wink wink*. When we go to Karachi we get the best desi traditional foods and we get to dress REALLY fancy! It’s when we get to take out our kurta shalwars (fancy traditional middle eastern clothes).

Anything I do for Ramsan doesn’t represent all of my family as well, my immediate family celebrates like this ^ but my extended family also tends to lean more traditional haha. This also definitely doesn’t represent the whole community, everyones got a different value that is brought forth during Ramsan, it’s just an all around celebration for life and people we care for, it’s very sweet people to ask about it!

#ramadan #muslim #pakistan #eid al fitr #muslim education #sharing culture #culture appreciation #my favourite things about ramsan #super glad for my first ever ask! #and about my culture no less #i am not the most educated but i’m always willing to share what I know!

[luxshine]

Going back to #cultureappropiation vs. #cultureappreciation📷 and why it's important to know the difference as the main one is respect. The second one is of course if the culture in question is an open one (like most of Mexican culture is) or closed. And how to know? Very easy: ASK a native of that culture. And don't forget the #chavelachocolateycthulhu #kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/.../chavela-chocolate-y-cthulhu

#culture appropiation #culture appreciation #mexican culture #Chavela Vargas #Chavela Chocolate y Cthulhu #Sapphic love #LGBT+ characters #YA novel #Luxshine Art #building blocks

[skellydun]

I don't think I'm meant to be employed. It really cuts into my goofy silly haha time. and it makes it nearly impossible to have any wow life is beautiful let me take it in time.

#guess what our employee appreciation gift was. a chair. 100+ dollars on a camping chair for each HQ employee? why not just... #i was just like gee. glad u appreciate me. u ever heard of how companies can shower u with free swag but it doesnt distract from the #horrible culture??? #like yes dont give us that 100 dollars but give me an ugly chair with our company logo that i had to lug up a hill. #im just tired of this aspect of HR i think. need me some new scenery

[ashleyloob]

every time I see non Asians go by Asian names online I get whiplash bc I'm like o shit another one of me!! then I find out they are a white weeb from Arkansas going by Haru that can't name more than 3 countries in Asia

#ppl used to make fun of me for my ethnic name so now i go by a western one.... #but now i guess ethnic names are cool again as long as ur not that ethnicity? we have come full circle #huge difference between cultural appreciation and surface level fetishization btw #this is specifically talking about those that dont actually respect asian culture & use it as an aesthetic or accessory

[aliengirlx]

#beauty #fashion #fashion photography #glitter #soft black girls #black girl beauty #black woman beauty #black women #aliengirlx #black culture #black beauty #black girl magic #black girls of tumblr #black girl aesthetic #black woman aesthetic #black woman appreciation #shine

[angelst4t]

ough save me bear transmasc……

bear transmasc……..

bear transmasc save me……..

#there’s such a huge lack of love and appreciation for fatness n hairiness #BUT THATS WHY IM HEREEE HEHEHEHEHDJ #OUGDJJSJDJDFJ #mlm #nblm #t4t #t4t mlm #achillean #mlm yearning #nblm post #nblm yearning #bear culture #mlm bear #bear subculture #trans bear

[jedi-enthusiast]

Jedi culture is a padawan smacking one of their friends, poking them, playing a prank on them, etc. and then, when they try to retaliate, running away shouting- "REVENGE IS NOT THE JEDI WAY!!!"

#star wars #pro jedi #jedi culture #jedi appreciation

[xuasii]

#black woman appreciation #black women #blackgirlmagic #black girl beauty #blackgirlbeauty #fine blackwomen #black girl magic #black women are beautiful #black girl tumblr #black culture #black beauty #black tumblr #beautiful black women #black is beautiful #black femininity #xuasii #black model #black queen #quotes

[bbygirl-obi]

"the jedi don't have therapists-"

jedi philosophy, and in particular the practices and teachings that jedi were expected to implement in their everyday lives, was therapy. dialectical behavior therapy (dbt), to be exact. anyone who's familiar with dbt knows where i'm already going with this, but like genuinely look up the basic tenets of dbt and it's identical with what the jedi were doing.

dbt, to put it simply, is a specific therapy technique that was designed for ptsd and past trauma. it's pretty different from traditional talk therapy. it combines a few different environments (individual, group, etc.), recognizing that no single format of treatment can stand alone.

the key focuses of dbt include:

emotional regulation- understanding, being more aware of, and having more control over your emotions

mindfulness- regulating attention and avoiding anxious fixation on the past or future

interpersonal effectiveness- navigating interpersonal situations

distress tolerance- tolerating distress and crises without spiraling and catastrophizing

i'm sure it's already clear from that list alone how much the jedi teachings correspond with the goals of dbt. the jedi value, teach, and practice the following:

identifying and understanding emotions

mindfulness and living in the present

compassion, diplomacy, and conflict resolution (on interpersonal scales, not just planetary or galactic)

accepting and tolerating certain levels of distress or discomfort (particularly mental, such as discomfort at the thought of losing a loved one to death)

idk man seems almost as if jedi mental health practices and dbt are two sides of a completely identical coin. (fun fact: both star wars and dbt are products of the 70s.)

and guess what? dbt was specifically designed as a treatment for borderline personality disorder. remember that one? or, if you don't, maybe you remember a specific character, the one who was literally used as an example by my professor in my undergrad psych class when she was teaching us about bpd?

tldr: simply existing within the jedi community, practicing jedi teachings, surrounded by a support network of other jedi of all life stages, was the therapy for anakin. even when viewed through a modern lens. it was even, more specifically, the precise type of therapy that has developed in modern times to treat the exact types of mental issues he was struggling with.

#dbt #dbt therapy #dbt skills #dialectical behavior therapy #bpd #borderline personality disorder #anakin skywalker #anakin #star wars #sw #prequel trilogy #prequels #jedi #jedi culture #jedi philosophy #pro jedi #jedi appreciation #jedi order #attachment #non attachment #mindfulness #in defense of the jedi

[serglesinner]

recently I've been infected by her and it's bad

#like it's BAD it's severe #the part that upsets me is that her brain works the exact same way mine does. i just don't speak #also the Donald Trump impression clips.... #i had her podcast running while i was working on art and kept having to stop bc my hand #was so unsteady bc i kept cracking. #and she's really making me appreciate straight woman culture btw. ally #video #tiktok

[jesncin]

HRGHHH as an indonesian I LOVE SEEING UR INDO LOIS ART AHH IT MAKES ME SO HAPPYYY

I was wondering what would jon hypothetically look like in your art???

Aaw makasih banyak that melts my heart :') and thank you also for asking because that gives me the opportunity to do this:

meet Jonathan Yunus Kent! Otherwise known as Superboy.

I think it would be so neat of Jon's superhero outfit to blend his Indonesian and Kryptonian heritage together! I like to think Jon and J'onn are close too.

#askjesncin #superboy #jon kent #lois lane #martian manhunter #j'onn j'onzz #any pluto appreciators out there!! atom & gesicht's relationship are how I see Jon & J'onn..powerful boy and powerful detective #being super indulgent and making Jon's outfit culturally detailed give him that pavitr treatment!! #jl remix

[vampirictranssexual]

Okay, serious discussion about s5e7 of wwdits. I have a lot of mixed feelings about it. The creatures fell into the uncanny valley, why did they choose the donut lady as a plot for nadja when it could've been with the guide, etc. HOWEVER, what I do appreciate about this episode is the meta commentary on how Nandor's culture is simultaneously erased in history classes and then mocked by museums. His culture, his writings, his garments.. almost everything about his history is completely misrepresented by the museum and all of his artifacts were stolen. He literally sees a pair of his underwear on display! He is looked at as an object, a relic of the past. The museum portays him as being unintelligent and frowns upon his writings. And that's based on their narrow understanding of him, Al Q, and his culture. The historians do not know Nandor of course, but they view him through a lense that chooses to only see him and his culture as unintelligent, subhuman even- because why else would someone write something like this? Or wear something like this? Or use weapons like this? It reminds me of those TV shows that theorize the pyramids were made by aliens. Because how else could the Egyptians have been capable of creating the pyramids? Surely they can't be intelligent enough! *eye roll*

Idk someone could probably use better words to communicate what I'm trying to say here, but I wanted to bring it to the table anyway. Oh, also Colin becomes the center of attention by acting like the stereotypical white professor who is more focused on feeding their ego than actually educating his pupils. And this ends up in Nandor being pushed out of the conversation. A literal metaphor for how whiteness obscures and diminishes other cultures and immigrant communities. Of course Colin did that just to feed off of the students. Because then he ends up replacing the museum display with a more accurate representation of Nandor (albeit for comedic effect). And then by taking back his horsie necklace. But.. everyone listened to Colin! And ignored Nandor! Lots to think about in terms of erasure, white washing, forced assimilation, how museums profit off of stolen artifacts and skewing history, etc.

Nandor is an immigrant to Staten island and he was forced to assimilate. Imagine how he must feel when he sees all these stolen artifacts in the museum, and plaques that inaccurately portray his culture and history. And people gawking at the clothes and weapons he proudly wore/still wears. This is a reality for many native and immigrant communities here in America and abroad. Being forced to view your culture, your way of life through the lense of the oppressor.

#maybe im being too meta but i appreciate the writers for pointing out how museums/professors/institutions profit off stolen artifacts #and profit off of minimizing/erasing other cultures in a way that benefits whiteness #ultimately colin was an ally to nandor by fixing the museum so that it accurately portrayed Nandor #and by taking back his stolen horsie necklace. big win for the colin/nandor arc #wwdits #wwdits spoilers #what we do in the shadows #its a funny show! i know. just. let me sit with my thoughts lol

[odinsblog]

Tracy Chapman has herself said that she didn’t mind the remake because she is the sole writer of the song, and as such, she appreciates the royalties.

Luke’s version is getting a lot of airtime, but so is Tracy’s original version.

And Luke’s sincere and obvious appreciation of Chapman’s song is just icing on the cake:

When Luke Combs set out to cover Tracy Chapman's 1988 hit “Fast Car”, he did it out of complete admiration for the song

Although not every lyric makes sense being covered by a male vocalist, he decided not to deviate from the original lyrics out of respect for its original songwriter.

“You want to just be mega respectful of the original song,” Combs tells Kelleigh Bannen on Today's Country Radio. “That's why in that song ... it’s, ‘Work in the market as a checkout girl.’ I didn’t change that in my version — I really wanted to just do the original version of the song.”

Combs really wanted to bring the song as it was intended to be in presenting it to a new generation of fans who may have only been vaguely familiar with the original.

“It’s weird because you’re doing a cover of it, and you say, ‘I don’t want to make it my own, because I really just want to shine a light on the original version and bring that.’”

“Because I think there’s so many people that maybe know that song, or it would be familiar to them, but they really don’t know anything about it,” he explains. “They’ve never really listened to it.”

“When I recorded this, literally the engineer in there asked me who I wrote that song with,” Combs adds.

(continue reading)

#tracy chapman #luke combs #fast car #music #grammys #cultural appropriation #cultural appreciation #cultural appreciation vs. cultural appropriation

[imagining-in-the-margins]

Reasons to Reblog Fan-Created Content

It will make the creator very, very happy

You can tag the work and save it on a side blog for easy navigation if you want to find it again in the future

It will encourage the creator to create more

You will spread the work to allow others to enjoy it

Creators will love you a lot

It helps creators identify what works are popular and they might create more content specific to your tastes

Seriously, it will make us so, so happy

You will get the chance to engage further with fandom and attract people with similar interests

We’ll be more grateful than you can imagine

You will help usher new fans into the fandom, prolonging the life of the fandom

Did I mention it will make us happy?

It is a small token of appreciation for the people who produce work for free in their free time, without any cost to yourself

Please thank creators ❤️ Please ❤️

#fandom culture #fandom #fanfic #fanart #criminal minds fanfiction #spencer reid fanfic #creator appreciation

[hussyknee]

“You will not kill the hope in us. Freedom for Palestine”

Baladicenter, a continuation of Baladi Dance Group, was established in 1991 in Beit Jala, Palestine. Founded by a group of promising young people, with a mission to preserve and pass down their rich Palestinian heritage through generations, consolidating and strengthening the Palestinian identity. The group emerged in response to the occupation authorities' attempts to deny and erase the ancient roots and heritage of the Palestinian people.

Please consider buying a Keffiyeh* to support expanding local productions and keep the traditions of Palestine alive. They're currently restocking and hope to get orders out soon.

*Either spelling appears acceptable.

The dance is interspersed with footage of the Great March of Return where young men danced a Dabke circle under gunfire and tear gas from the Occupation Forces, and the civilian defiance of First Intifada, whose 36th anniversary was commemorated on December 8th.

Glory to the Martyrs! 🇵🇸

Glory to the Resistance! 🇵🇸

From River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

#i'd appreciate it if someone could do a video description #pro palestinian protests #pro palestine protest #palestinian culture #palestinian art #palestinian resistance #palestinian dance #palestinian music #dabke #free palestine #protest art #protest songs #protest music #decolonization #resistance #power to the people #save west bank #save gaza #kufiya #kuffiyeh #middle east #arab culture #from river to sea palestine will be free #knee of huss

[faeriekit]

Snow Day

SO IT TURNS OUT @tourettesdog also had a far-frozen based Phic Phight prompt so here's a sister fic of Snowdrift Sanctuary from yesterday okay please and thank you

Tundra peeked around the pillar of ice. Again.

The human was still there.

…Tundra peeked left. Tundra peeked right. No one else had seen them yet.

The human, in a big coat and big boots was squatting in the snow, drawing shapes Tundra couldn’t make out with their finger.

Tundra’s tail wagged. Well. He didn’t have a very long tail, so he mostly butt-wiggled. There’d never been a human at the Far Frozen before!! Tundra had heard of humans — he’d seen depictions and heard stories, sure. But now a human was here. And they lived here.

That was so cool.

So, maybe Tundra wanted to say hi! So what? Mama had said that he should be nice to the human, since they needed help and shelter that the Chief would provide, but they were also new and interesting and they hardly ever had anyone stay with them who wasn’t a yeti ever!! Maybe they’d let Tundra play with them while they were here?

So Tundra got down on his haunches. He crawled over the snowbank, wriggling as he went, taking advantage of his coat that blended into the terrain.

The human didn’t see him at all.

Tundra bared his teeth in a play grin, eyes squinting, tongue caught between his teeth. The human was so close. He crouched down as far as he could. He waited until the human wasn’t looking.

Tundra pounced.

And then there was a flash of green burning through the air, hot and bright and loud. Tundra startled.

He landed in the snow, dazed and off-balance. He could feel a hot spot in his fur—putting his paw to it, Tundra could feel where his fur was burnt to singed ends, the tips of each hair bulbous with char.

There was a steaming hole in the snow behind him.

…Oh.

“HOLY SH—are you okay?? Did I hurt you?? I’m sorry!!” someone shouted. Someone gently turned Tundra’s head, careful not to move him too harshly or too quickly. “Is your head okay? Are you bleeding? Is—“

“…Cool.” Tundra muttered, eyes still stuck to the hole in the snow. That was so strong. Even Avalanche wasn’t that strong, and she beat everyone in the tournament last season. No wonder the chief was in charge of the human ghost, even if there were lots of adults willing to help.  

“Sorry, I’m so sorry,” the human apologized again, hands on their flat, pink face. Huh. Their hair was white now. When did that happen? “Usually when ghosts sneak up on me, they’re, uh… they’re not usually playing.”

Tundra looked at the human’s flat face and frowned. They got attacked? For real, and not for playing? “That’s mean. I hope you got them.”

The human made a strangled noise. Super weird! “Yeah…yeah. I did.”

“Good,” Tundra decided, back straightening straight up. The human was about as tall as he was, but humans were smaller in general. They were probably older. “If anyone attacks you now, you should get the Chief to eat them, and then they won’t attack you anymore.”

The human made another choked noise. Tundra assumed it was a laugh. He grinned back, pleased with the response, and wriggled back upright. “I’m Tundra! Mama says that you’re older than me even though we’re just as tall as each other! Are you a boy human, or a girl human? Or neither? Or both?!”

“…I’m a boy,” the human said, voice weak. Tundra peered in close at him, trying to see if he’d been injured too, but no; he looked fine, and he got his black hair back too.

“Cool,” said Tunda. “So am I. Arctic is too, but he’s big already, so he doesn’t want to play all the time. Do you like hunting?”

“I’ve…never hunted before.”

Not ever? Tundra gasped. “We can play chase, then, and then the chief can teach you how to hunt! And then we can hunt together!” Tundra scrambled to his feet, excited. “Do you want to stalk Avalanche with me?! She always throws me off, and then we can wrestle!”

The human hesitated.

“Or,” Tundra amended, because the human was still kind of small, “You can watch me stalk Avalanche, and watch us wrestle, and then I can teach you to stalk the chief so that you can wrestle with someone you know is safe.”

The human snorted, the fur cuff from his sleeve hiding his face. “I don’t know…isn’t he busy? You know, being the chief and all…””

“You’re supposed to wrestle your parents,” Tundra assured him, chest fur puffing up with pride. “I used to chew on Mama’s ears all the time when I was a cub. Now Avalanche and Arctic and everyone else can wrestle with me because they’re big enough to know how to stop playing before they squash me flat.”

The human laughed, openly and brightly, and it sounded nice.

Tundra stood so that could he could launch himself back towards the settled part of their little patch of the Infinite Realms. “Come on!!” he shouted, more than eager to play. “Last one there doesn’t get any fish eyes!”

There was a moment of silence—and then they were both rolling in the snow, the human having decided to launch into him!! This was great!! Tundra whooped, feigning bites and wriggling while the human pushed him further into the depths of the snow. The human’s grin was kind of wide and weird without a muzzle, but that wasn’t his fault, and he was having fun!! And so was Tundra!!

And the human-ghost could fly, and Tundra couldn’t, so chasing after him was super fun. They made it all the way back to the settlement in no time flat, dodging other kith and kin—

And running into Mama and Chief Advisor Pritla on accident was worth how much trouble he got into later.

Whoops!

#phic phight 2024 #phic phight #faer fic #danny phantom #far frozen #I needed a yeti to look down at Danny and be like 'this is a best friend' and I needed Danny to look up and go 'this is...legit a baby' #no frostbite this time though check the previous instead #whoah did you know danny phantom was trending today you guys no way /j #no I am still not over the greenland shark nor fish eyes together we can COME TOGETHER AND APPRECIATE CULTURE SPECIFIC DELICACIES #HOLD MY HAND. WE WILL FIND WORLD PEACE. TOGETHER