Elena :)’s Reviews > White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color > Status Update

"Cultural appropriation is not mere exchange or appreciation, it is the separation of certain cultural markers from their origins that are celebrated only when white people adopt them. [...] It is Israel marketing itself as the home of falafel and tahini even as it places millions of Palestinians under occupation and siege, denying them self-determination and dignity." - White Tears/Brown Scars

"Cultural appropriation is not mere exchange or appreciation, it is the separation of certain cultural markers from their origins that are celebrated only when white people adopt them. [...] It is Israel marketing itself as the home of falafel and tahini even as it places millions of Palestinians under occupation and siege, denying them self-determination and dignity."

"White people set the standard for humanity by which they, and only they, could succeed. And this standard meant a strict hierarchy that places white men at the top with white women just below them, followed by men of colour, and then women of colour occupying the lowest rung." - White Tears/Brown Scars