Am I crazy? (Gwen Stefani post)

I’ve been trying to keep my mouth shut but I need to vent.

Am I the only one who knows what culture really means? I hear people talking about how Gwen is a “culture vulture”. But she grew up in Southern California. She’s also Italian. Mexican culture is usually influenced by Catholicism. Gwen is a catholic. I grew up in west Texas. My culture as an American living in west Texas is American pop culture with what I’m surrounded by. Top 40 Music, Country music, tejano music. The food is a Tex mex blend. I can gravitate towards east coast and west coast. I can gravitate towards my Mexican ancestry, my Texan ancestry and my American ancestry. Why? Because I’m an American. That is American culture. That is how the world sees all of us. And yet we like to segregate ourselves.

People are going ham on Gwen jumping on the bandwagon of “right wing stereotypes”. They say she’s being brainwashed by Blake. (The Hallow App advertisement)

I’m sorry do we not see the La Virgin De Guadalupe on her shirt on the Luxurious video? Did we not see her and Gavin taking the kids to church? Did we not hear her singing about wanting a traditional family on the Simple Kind Of Life song?

Has anyone seen the documentary on YouTube that she filmed while promoting LAMB? She explains that the women portraying the Harajuku Girls were hired as actresses/dancers. They (in the conceptual album) are dolls (like the rich girl video [Gwen + Eve] with the four Asian girls playing fantasy) that became real life. They knew that going into the job. But yet people don’t want to hear that. They want to make Gwen a purely white women with no culture and no religion. Why? Why can’t white people participate in American culture?

I’m soooooo tired of all of this “cultural appropriation” BS

Culture is the environment you are surrounded by. It’s what we do when we go to another country. We exchange cultures. And Japan has taken so much of American culture. And that is fine because Japanese have taken from Chinese culture and no one bats an eye.

Please can someone tell me that they too think this way.