USA Culture Halloween Costumes

Discussion in 'Art & Culture' started by RainbowSingularity, Oct 26, 2018.

  1. RainbowSingularity Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    7,447
    i have never had an anthropologist or psychologist explain the culture of theUSA haloween costumes and how they relate to social culture.
    it confuses me because on 1 level(polar extremes of divisive behaviour modelling) it appears to be the christian conservatives rebranding a pagan ritual by removing all the costumes for the dead & withces.
    while on the other side the customes that are worn mimmicing media personalaties, living & deceased.

    i love haloween for its occasion to decorate and the familiarisation with non standard models of thought and design and its deprogramming effect of anthropromorphic xenophobia.

    it seems there is an existing gray line where white people dress up as a black person and this is deemed racist as a haloween costume.
    i have heard vague reference to black people dressing up as a white person and the sugestion that this is also racist.
    [note i use the terms white & black person to save several pages of discusion around xenophobic skin cultures]
    dressing up to look like a celebrity, using make up to duplicate skin colour...
    is that considered racist ?
    is putting on clown face paint an act of inherant racism by proxy ?

    what are the cultural implication of society as it moves forward ?

    thoughts ?
    (editing typos as i re-read, i think thats about it)
     
  2. Google AdSense Guest Advertisement



    to hide all adverts.
  3. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    8,828
  4. Google AdSense Guest Advertisement



    to hide all adverts.
  5. RainbowSingularity Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    7,447
    are a tiny fraction of society.

    why is the usa obsessed with the a serial killer clown skin color(costume) ? is it linked subconsciousely to social shock at racism in society ?
     
  6. Google AdSense Guest Advertisement



    to hide all adverts.
  7. RainbowSingularity Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    7,447
    one might define this is blatent racism
    https://www.amazon.com/Fun-World-Womens-Hippie-Costume/dp/B00K44DF1I?keywords=halloween costumes&qid=1540555946&sr=8-52&ref=sr_1_52

    Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!



    some call it cultural appropriation, however i suggest since the ideological narative on making the essence of the exterior the sum value of the content of idiation, this is there for clearly racist..
     
    sculptor likes this.
  8. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    8,828
    Kids idolize the strangest things. I wouldn't deny them the joy of pretending for one night that they were that image.
     
  9. RainbowSingularity Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    7,447
    LoL
    who are you talking to ?
    not me thats for sure.
    are you trying to change the subject ?

    thats an adult white female costume sold as an adult female costume.
    if you mean "kid" by anyone under the age of 60 years old then sure, i get your point.

    but if you mean kid as in under 20 years old then your spouting propoganda.
     
  10. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    8,828
    So an adult can't simply because they are an adult?
     
  11. RainbowSingularity Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    7,447
    can't what ? (talk adult language)

    fyi this is more soo a philisophical discusion around the nature of culture.
    there are a great deal of americans whom i hold in very high regard.
    when you see the best potential some times the bad stuff can seem almost over whelmingly disheartening...
     
    Last edited: Oct 26, 2018
  12. billvon Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    21,635
    Which race is it mocking?
     
  13. parmalee peripatetic artisan Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    3,266
    Affluent white young people "rebelling" against their parents' generation.
     
  14. billvon Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    21,635
    Ah. An odd race, but I imagine it would be discriminatory to deny them their own race.
     
    sideshowbob likes this.
  15. gmilam Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    3,522
    She does resemble Sly Stone.
     
  16. parmalee peripatetic artisan Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    3,266
    "It's a very scary time for (rich white) young men in America."
     
    RainbowSingularity likes this.
  17. billvon Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    21,635
    I know! Next thing you know, even a little innocent pussy-grabbing will get you some draconian punishment from an uptight liberal judge.
     
  18. parmalee peripatetic artisan Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    3,266
    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...ston-flight-trump_us_5bce6bb8e4b0d38b587b52ec
     
  19. RainbowSingularity Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    7,447
    lol when you say young you mean mid 50s to late 60s who have normalised inastitutional racism and ecconomic racial segragation ?
     
  20. parmalee peripatetic artisan Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    3,266
    Them too--especially the ones who attended prep school and Ivy League institutions as legacy students <<<. Those guys just can't get a break! (Incidentally, yet another of Brett Kavanaugh's lies under oath: his grandfather attended Harvard.)

    Anyways, I think this costume <<< is more along the lines of what you intended in post #4:

    Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!



    And, yes, that is blatant racism. But considering the names and mascots of various sports teams, the U.S. military's habit of naming aircraft after victims of their own genocide, etc., I seriously doubt such costumes will be disappearing anytime soon.
     
  21. RainbowSingularity Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    7,447
    what is the base line ?

    as for the costume thing, dressing up like living(celebritys) people.
    to me it looks like someone dressing up as jesus and hitler and making a porn movie about them having sex together(while the content may have ligitimate attraction to the psyche the infered use of the nature of the characters is a direct manifestation of a subtext used as a re-modeling of narative culture norms).
    it is an attempted cultural genocide using children as human shield.

    when the power & authority model is corrupted and then normalised as corrupt, the adult claims that children are harmles(via innocence of being the victim they make them) when they dress and inspire those children to act out the adults desires.
    the adult then blames the child for inspiring the adult to inspire the child.
    i find it extremely distatseful to interact with, though it is no different to sicknes and disease and poverty related death and drug addiction.

    you cant force an addict to simply stop being an addict.
     
    Last edited: Oct 27, 2018
  22. sculptor Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    8,466
  23. Gawdzilla Sama Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    3,864
    All I need for Halloween is a pair of ears.

    Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!

     

Share This Page