Row over white fashion models' cornrow wings

No - cultural appropriation is real and an issue. It deserves to be called out like this.

oh i have a high level of intellect, you just meant vocabulary - vocabulary is a choice, intellect is a way of thinking. And I think you were referring to intelligence anyway - intellect is a way of looking at abstract matters objectively and logically. this is a conversation about view-points about real life situations and in a way situational ethics so intellect isn't needed in the same way as it's not an abstract idea in the way that, I don't know, trying to analyse Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett is abstract. so basically: ok boomer.

you can't get dreads from the hairdresser. and you don't have many hairdressers who could do genuine cornrows on western style hair, and the hairdressers who specialise in coloured hair probably wouldn't give you cornrows unless you had the compatible hair. So.

Cringe

Er... The Vikings had dreadlocks and weren't exactly black.

No culture has ownership of a hairstyle.

I'm not sure if the Vikings ever had dreadlocks, most historic accounts suggest they were fond of combing their hair very straight, early Christian missionaries were surprised by how well Norse men cared for their hair and how long they spent grooming it.

The Minoan Civilisation features the earliest known dipictions of dreadlocks (they were European), and we also know several Ancient Greek cultures wore dreadlocks, so did a the Scythians.

oh i have a high level of intellect, you just meant vocabulary - vocabulary is a choice, intellect is a way of thinking. And I think you were referring to intelligence anyway - intellect is a way of looking at abstract matters objectively and logically. this is a conversation about view-points about real life situations and in a way situational ethics so intellect isn't needed in the same way as it's not an abstract idea in the way that, I don't know, trying to analyse Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett is abstract. so basically: ok boomer.

No - cultural appropriation is real and an issue. It deserves to be called out like this.

So should there be no mixing of cultures at all?

I think he was being sarcastic/facetious. Although this may be one of those cases where a political extremist and a sarcastic moderate are indistinguishable on the internet.

For those who are genuinely curious why people are offended by this keep reading, for those who aren't have a good day!
TL;DR VERS: Many black workers and school children are told their cornrow braids are inappropriate for the work place/school because they do not "reflect our values", and seeing models (some of whom not being black) suddenly having this hairstyle celebrated and walked as high fashion can feel like a slap to the face, insulting, and just generally a flagrant display of double standards.
There have been countless stories, testimonies, and policies made by educational institutions or work places stating that some forms of hairstyle, particularly those belonging traditionally to black cultures, are somehow more inappropriate than the hairstyles of their co-workers or fellow students. I will dump post a bunch of sources to stories about this if you're curious:
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Bare in mind these sources came from about 5 minutes of googling, and is just scratching the surface. And if you question is "Well, whats the problem with changing a hairstyle?", braids are a protective style. Put very simply (bare in mind I am white myself so do not have all the personal testimony on this) some hair patterns are more likely to become damaged than others. Black hair especially can be incredibly hard to moisturise, making it brittle, more likely to snap, and more likely to fall out over time. This means that there are some hairstyles which can be used to make sure that the hair is kept insulated, moisturised, and as such be less likely to become damaged.
So you have a group of people being told "this hairstyle is inappropriate because we don't like what we think it represents, and we don't care if its practical because it doesn't look nice enough to work for us", and then suddenly seeing the same style they can be expelled for, fired for, or even denied jobs for on
runways. It can be insulting!
I hope this helps contextualise the outrage a bit more for people who may be unfamiliar with this.

I get that, but that's nothing to do with cultural appropriation is it? It's just double standards.
And since when is high fashion an accurate picture of the world? It exists in a masturbatory bubble; what they 'celebrate' 99/100 times looks horrible to the outside world.

Secondly, companies and schools are entitled to have dress codes. I understand that it's mean and insensitive to just expect someone to change their hairstyle when it's taken them weeks to do it but they are well within their rights to expect it.

Cultural appropriation is one of those things coked up in Uni departments flogging tailor-made 'studies' to people who can't do anything academical, their money is as good as anybody's. Then they come out waving their 'diplomas' in everybody's faces and get the hump when nobody cares and they find out they're useless in the real world, that's when they start *****ing against the system that fails to appreciate them.

To have the thing you are mocked for and now using as protest taken by the very people who seemingly repeatedly tell you to remove them is cultural appropriation, because they don't understand the significance that it holds.