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I can speak about this.
It's mostly an east Asian growing in Western countries thing.
The anger is because East Asians don't get to wear traditional clothing in public without getting considerable scrutiny.
Unless it's a an event like Halloween or some costume party.
Outside of that, you will get people looking weirdly at you.
It's like wearing a Muslim veil in public, but at least that has gotten some acceptance.
Maybe in time things can change for east Asians too.
"But isn't this just an effect of modernization?"
yeah well.. "modernization" brought with it cultural hegemony
English is the lingua franca and we all use Hindu Arabic numbers
..but that's another topic
Some east Asians don't care about this. I'd say a lot of Asian don't care about this.
But some really do. So, when they see someone who is obviously not East Asian wearing traditional east Asian garb, you can probably guess why they're upset.
and the feeling is even worse in this era where neo nazis are coming out of the woods.
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