Disney Pulls Moana Costumes For Children Amid Cultural Appropriation Uproar Los Angeles Times
The film's depiction of Maui aside, the official Disney "Moana" costumes, pajamas and wigs are, by definition, a form of cultural appropriation, according to Tēvita O Kaʻili, an Oceanian sociocultural anthropologist at Brigham Young University Hawaii "Cultural appropriation," Kaʻili told The Huffington Post, "is when a dominant group takes on the symbols, rituals andOr putting on a kimono and a bun to become a geisha) The second, more obvious one, is to remember that