OKAY so I saw this a few days ago and was likeĀ āwhateverā but then I smashed my phone in a car door, had to clean up some dead baby bunnies in my yard, and have just generally NOT had a good week. Iām fucking spooked and Iām reblogging this twice to get the universe to stop.
I ignored this too and then i got kicked out of my house. Also reblogging twice.
for those not in the know, night witches were russian lady bombers who bombed the shit out of german lines in WW2. Thing is though, they had the oldest, noisiest, crappest planes in the entire world. The engines used to conk out halfway through their missions, so they had to climb out on the wings mid flight to restart the props. the planes were also so noisy that to stop germans from hearing them combing and starting up their anti aircraft guns, theyād climb up to a certain height, coast down to german positions, drop their bombs, restart their engines in midair, and get the fuck out of dodge.
their leader flew over 200 missions and was never captured.
how the fuck is this not taught in every single history class ever
pilotsĀ (ā”āæā”āæ)Ā
girl pilotsĀ (āāæāāæ)
girl pilots killing nazisĀ ā§ļ½„ļ¾:Ā *ā§ļ½„ļ¾:* (āć®āāæ)/ *:ļ½„ļ¾ā§*:ļ½„ļ¾ā§
But, remember, women never did anything in history.
Iām reblogging this again. Always reblogging. Always
And the Nazis called them āNight Witchesā because you couldnāt fucking hear them.Ā They basically appeared out of the night as if they were flying on brooms and dropped bombs.
When I explain cultural misappropriation to children, I use the example of The Nightmare Before Christmas. Ā
Itās effective because especially for children, who donāt have enough historical context to understand much of the concept, you can still fully grasp the idea. Ā
There was nothing wrong with Jack seeing the beauty and differences in Christmas town, itās when he tried to take what is unique about Christmas town away from those it originally belonged to without understanding the full context of Christmas things is when everything went wrong.
When Jack tries to get the folk of Halloween town to make Christmas gifts for children, etc., children understand that the Halloween town folk do not have the full context for the objects they are making, and they are able to see that the direct repercussions and consequences are very harmful.
what i like about this is the implication that if jack had taken the time to understand christmas town, bringing christmas to halloween town would not have been harmful. thatās how it works, folks. cultural sharing is GOOD, itās only misappropriation when itās done in ignorance and disrespect.
So itās not just accidentally removing things form their context; he has intentionally disregard the meaning of the rituals he purports to be recreating, making them more fun for the recreaters but not like what the rituals are supposed to be and without the related significance.
This is the best way to conceptualize the wrong way to share culture I have ever seen and I think I finally get where people are coming from when they talk about ācultural appropriation.ā
This is an EXCELLENT explanation through example!
This is PERFECT. Iām using this in my classroom.
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