Lol. Imagine believing Yoga can be misappropriated or stolen ffs.
> She added that such experiences in white-led yoga spaces were traumatising for people of colour, and she was no longer willing to practise in them.
Hmm, I wonder if there’s a word one could use when somebody makes decisions based on another person’s ethnicity.
They sound like they’re yoghurt.
“Yoga traditions have been misappropriate and commodifided as fitness” that feels correct to me.
Doing yoga is cultural appropriation?
Some people have far too much time on their hands.
Imagine a life where yoga is a problem for you. Jesus
We’re past the point where people want to share and enrich, now it seems we want to censor and gatekeep.
Sharing culture with others is a good thing. Other cultural pieces being adopted is a good thing. It is only problematic if it is taken and profited from while suppressing the original group from doing so.
If you’re angry at one race doing something from another culture without malice then you’re the problem.
A report by the British Medical Journal in 2020 found that 87% of UK practitioners were women and 91% were white.
Isn’t the general make up of the UK population about 90% white?
I wish I could invest in Guardian articles every time i think they’ve reached peak guard they top it within a week or so…
As a gay. I am absolutely disgusted that the Guardian would dare platform someone called ‘Batty’.
Outrageous, haven’t my people suffered enough at the hands of you bigots?
Believe it or not, yoga in the modern sense that we understand it is something that the Indians are very, very happy to export.
It’s tied very neatly to the identity of modern Hindu nationalists, it’s something that they actively promote as a cultural export and are placing quite a bit of effort in spreading it as far as possible. See: world yoga day.
So arguments about ‘cultural appropriation’ and whether a yoga class can ever be traumatising aside, the entire premise of this is faulty.
“A report by the British Medical Journal in 2020 found that 87% of UK practitioners were women and 91% were white.”
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Whoa! You mean in a country that’s 87.17% white, most of the people who do yoga are white!
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Wow! Give that person a Pulitzer for that stunning revelation!
>She recalled a class where a white teacher “who’d just come back from an ashram in India was wearing Indian clothes, and all the accoutrements, in a class full of white people”. “It felt like it was almost a parody of being south Asian,” said Schut, from south-east London. She added that such experiences in white-led yoga spaces were traumatising for people of colour, and she was no longer willing to practise in them.
If someone wearing the wrong type of clothes is traumatic for you, I honestly think you need some therapy.
Anyone who believes in cultural appropriation needs to take a moment to take it to its logical conclusion.
No art. No food. No music. None. Because its all drawing influences from each other and has done for centuries.
I even saw someone claiming going to a chinese restaurant was oppression and taking away the opportunity for chinese people to eat.
Anyone see Dune with the amazing inclusion of bagpipes to make the house atreides theme? Sorry no thats gross cultural appropriation of scotlands heritage.
Chicken tikka massala, an interesting adaptation of indian cuisine for british tastes – digusting bastardisation of an ancient heritage and probably racist due to empire.
How long before a white celeb in a sari at an indian wedding gets called out for it.
And dont get me started on tex-mex.
We’re already seeing it in acting. Acting as a profession will end because you can no longer act something you arent. Tom Hanks winning an oscar for philadelphia is now a gross refusal to let a gay man play the part.
We’re marching straight into segregation in the guise of inclusivity. Be very suspicious of anyone preaching it.
Ive even seen people claiming its racist for white people to have certain hairstyles… hair… what you do with the stuff that grows out of your head can be racist.
Mixing of cultures has been amazing to learn and see and try and experience. Its over now if these morons have their way.
All I get from this article is an overwhelming sense of envy and insecurity. Sue Forde clearly needs to evaluate herself rather than seek to change the industry.
I’ve never thought of modern yoga being associated with a particular ethnic group, but I’m fairly sure in its older practice, there would have been very few yellow-haired women involved.
The yoga group I practice with is very diverse. It has people from South Asia, China, continental Europe, the US and the UK of every colour, shape and degree of ability. Yoga by definition is inclusive. The only truth in this headline is that regular practitioners eventually gain flexibility, which shouldn’t be a surprise.
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Won’t somebody think of the yocs?
> misappropriated
Lol. Imagine believing Yoga can be misappropriated or stolen ffs.
> She added that such experiences in white-led yoga spaces were traumatising for people of colour, and she was no longer willing to practise in them.
Hmm, I wonder if there’s a word one could use when somebody makes decisions based on another person’s ethnicity.
They sound like they’re yoghurt.
“Yoga traditions have been misappropriate and commodifided as fitness” that feels correct to me.
Doing yoga is cultural appropriation?
Some people have far too much time on their hands.
Imagine a life where yoga is a problem for you. Jesus
We’re past the point where people want to share and enrich, now it seems we want to censor and gatekeep.
Sharing culture with others is a good thing. Other cultural pieces being adopted is a good thing. It is only problematic if it is taken and profited from while suppressing the original group from doing so.
If you’re angry at one race doing something from another culture without malice then you’re the problem.
A report by the British Medical Journal in 2020 found that 87% of UK practitioners were women and 91% were white.
Isn’t the general make up of the UK population about 90% white?
I wish I could invest in Guardian articles every time i think they’ve reached peak guard they top it within a week or so…
As a gay. I am absolutely disgusted that the Guardian would dare platform someone called ‘Batty’.
Outrageous, haven’t my people suffered enough at the hands of you bigots?
Believe it or not, yoga in the modern sense that we understand it is something that the Indians are very, very happy to export.
It’s tied very neatly to the identity of modern Hindu nationalists, it’s something that they actively promote as a cultural export and are placing quite a bit of effort in spreading it as far as possible. See: world yoga day.
So arguments about ‘cultural appropriation’ and whether a yoga class can ever be traumatising aside, the entire premise of this is faulty.
“A report by the British Medical Journal in 2020 found that 87% of UK practitioners were women and 91% were white.”
​
Whoa! You mean in a country that’s 87.17% white, most of the people who do yoga are white!
​
Wow! Give that person a Pulitzer for that stunning revelation!
>She recalled a class where a white teacher “who’d just come back from an ashram in India was wearing Indian clothes, and all the accoutrements, in a class full of white people”. “It felt like it was almost a parody of being south Asian,” said Schut, from south-east London. She added that such experiences in white-led yoga spaces were traumatising for people of colour, and she was no longer willing to practise in them.
If someone wearing the wrong type of clothes is traumatic for you, I honestly think you need some therapy.
Anyone who believes in cultural appropriation needs to take a moment to take it to its logical conclusion.
No art. No food. No music. None. Because its all drawing influences from each other and has done for centuries.
I even saw someone claiming going to a chinese restaurant was oppression and taking away the opportunity for chinese people to eat.
Anyone see Dune with the amazing inclusion of bagpipes to make the house atreides theme? Sorry no thats gross cultural appropriation of scotlands heritage.
Chicken tikka massala, an interesting adaptation of indian cuisine for british tastes – digusting bastardisation of an ancient heritage and probably racist due to empire.
How long before a white celeb in a sari at an indian wedding gets called out for it.
And dont get me started on tex-mex.
We’re already seeing it in acting. Acting as a profession will end because you can no longer act something you arent. Tom Hanks winning an oscar for philadelphia is now a gross refusal to let a gay man play the part.
We’re marching straight into segregation in the guise of inclusivity. Be very suspicious of anyone preaching it.
Ive even seen people claiming its racist for white people to have certain hairstyles… hair… what you do with the stuff that grows out of your head can be racist.
Mixing of cultures has been amazing to learn and see and try and experience. Its over now if these morons have their way.
All I get from this article is an overwhelming sense of envy and insecurity. Sue Forde clearly needs to evaluate herself rather than seek to change the industry.
I’ve never thought of modern yoga being associated with a particular ethnic group, but I’m fairly sure in its older practice, there would have been very few yellow-haired women involved.
The yoga group I practice with is very diverse. It has people from South Asia, China, continental Europe, the US and the UK of every colour, shape and degree of ability. Yoga by definition is inclusive. The only truth in this headline is that regular practitioners eventually gain flexibility, which shouldn’t be a surprise.
>traumatising
Get a grip.