effervescentvibes:

OMG I HATE THEIR BLOG they are honestly so rude. also, how can one “appropriate” a word?! they’re honestly crazy and care way too much. its literally a word. please calm down people.

thanks so much for letting me know.

White people: stop trying to make something sacred or important to millions of people to being “just” something. Dreadlocks/Locs isn’t just hair. Bindis aren’t just dots on the forehead. And the word “Namaste” is certainly not just a “word?!” that you pasty whites have butchered and ruined.

"Though the word ‘Namaste’ has been a South Asian greeting for centuries, now every yoga student, celebrity and creepy guy trying to hit on an Indian woman thinks it’s fine to use it as a way of saying ‘hey’ or ‘I’m so in touch with what it means to be worldy and spiritual.’ … 

"After hundreds of years of British colonialism enforcing English as the dominant language in South Asian government and schools, trying to erase the many facets of culture and history that mark the region, I’m supposed to feel flattered that the dominant culture I live in now wants to start using some sort of ‘authentic’ greeting that doesn’t even have anything to do with them?

"And as a second-generation Indian-American, I’m also perturbed that people assume anything about by my relationship to ‘Indianness’ in the first place: I’ve used ‘Namaste’ only a handful of times, with South Asian elders who I’ve never met before.When majority culture wants to start adopting the exotic, everyone is supposed to just come along for the ride. My mom and I wince a little when we get asked to be the voice of Indian authenticity — it may be a well-intentioned attempt to appear culturally sensitive, but to me, hearing ‘Namaste’ from complete strangers will always be appropriating and a little racist." (x)

"Namaste" is more than a word. It’s more than what you bird feces make it seem, as it is with everything else y’all hypocritically steal. Stop using it. You have no idea what you’re saying and shaming your ancestors that committed ethnocide to the same culture.

- Jess

PS: You know you only hate the blog because we don’t allow you to be racist and aren’t nice to people who purposely dehumanize, glorify, fetishize, exploit POCs.