Many Vietnamese Americans criticize Kacey Musgraves for wearing just top part of traditional 2-piece Vietnamese garment at show in Dallas last week, saying she was not only culturally appropriating the clothing, but also sexualizing it. - kimmythepooh
“The sexualization of it was disgusting,” Thuy Pham, executive director of the New York City-based nonprofit Vietnam Heritage Center, told NBC News. “It was for shock value, it was annoying, and it was a misappropriation of Vietnamese culture.”
Prominent beauty blogger Michelle Phan wrote on Instagram that the Asian community was particularly alarmed by Musgraves’ sexualization of the garb as “people are just tired of narratives that perpetuate the fetishism of Asian women.” And though most Chinese women resisted early Chinese immigration to the U.S. during the construction of the transcontinental railroad, for fear of racial violence, the few women who did immigrate to the states were from poor families who made a living as prostitutes to earn money for their loved ones, according to scholarSeveral on social media also called Musgraves out for wearing jewelry on her forehead that closely resembled maang tikka, a traditional Indian wedding headpiece.
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