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Hello, Your first draft looks very polished. I particularly like the use of the table of contents in your wiki, as well as your use of pictures as examples.

One criticism that I have is that you refer to those who are morally "allowed" to wear Indian attire as Indians, and those who are "not allowed" as Caucasians or non-Indians. The faulty logic behind this is that it assumes that one is not allowed to wear the bindi because they are white, when the criteria for cultural appropriation should be determined by culture not skin color. Take, for example, the instance of a European-born (white) Hindu wearing traditional Indian dress on her way home from praying at the temple. I would not classify this as cultural appropriation because she is observing her (Hindu) culture.

Another suggestion is that you could also potentially discuss the conflict of the right to freedom of expression vs. the inappropriateness of cultural appropriation. On one hand people do have the right to express themselves however they choose, but on the other, there exist negative repercussions to cultural appropriation.

EricMann (talk)19:51, 13 November 2017

Thanks for your response. I ended up adding a "cultural appreciation" vs "appropriation" to create a difference between the two. Your comment was helpful!

GagandeepCheema (talk)18:48, 16 November 2017