That is not even a fucking kimono! It's a qipao! /indignation

Rasta cat wig: http://bit.ly/4i9A8d+ (Can't link to anything but a pic because Petco decided Halloween was two or three weeks ago and took their stuff down)

Also, I assume the Jewish dog stuff is supposed to be for Jewish families. I spotted all sorts of Chanukah dog stuff at Target, which was weird given I could find very few Chanukah things for people. Searching "Chanukah" on the web site turns up very little, "Hanukkah" turns up pages and pages of luggage. Uh...OK.

While checking the Target web site, I ran into a "Jewish Rabbi Costume" for kids: http://bit.ly/2XfvRu Um...OK.

I agree. Again, people, STOP MAKING FUN OF MINORITIES AND STOP MOCKING OUR CULTURES.

I swear, I will physically attack anyone tonight if I see them wearing an Indian outfit and making a mockery of my culture and heritage.

Racist, yes but don't forget stupid and cruel.

the only way they would see what you mean is if you dress a dog like the pope.

also, have you seen this one?
it's beyond offensive.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/80463467/

Can someone explain to me why "wearing traditional clothes" equates to "reinforcing stereotypes"?

If one dressed one's dog in a polo shirt and faux jeans, and claimed he was a Mexican, the costume would require explanation.

OK, so maybe an inference at all to national identities is inherently offensive to some. Why? If a dog/child/grownup dresses in a lab coat with spiky hair, it's a generic Mad Scientist costume - is that inherently disrespectful of scientists? If they dress in OD green with a weapon, are they encouraging discrimination against the military?

Long time reader, first time commenter. Hahah.

I am absolutely appalled with your continuous over-analysis of traditional ethnic Halloween costumes.

A costume is a costume. Of course they are shoddy representations of the authentic traditional outfits, but so is every other pre-made Halloween costume. If people were willing to spend a couple hundred dollars on a costume, then perhaps it can be argued that the manufacturer of those cheaply made Chinese wigs should step away from the crummy-looking synthetic hair and push for a better quality representation of the traditional pony-tailed Chinese wigs. But given the current costs of generic Halloween costumes, authenticity is inversely traded for quality.

As for the pseudo-ization of the hundreds of North American Indian tribes into just a small selection of Halloween outfits, once again it is an economic issue. Are we to expect the manufacturers to research the vast/diverse culture of the Native Americans individually? Are they to expand their variety into 500 different outfits? Is this not an impossible task to expect from a costume manufacturer?

As well, I would be superbly impressed if even you (unless you have a degree in Native American Anthropology, in which case I apologize for my challenge, Haha), the writing staff can distinguish between the Northwest Coast Natives and the Great Plain Indians. The differences in dress, are minor. THIS IS AN EXACT PARALLEL TO THE GENERIC EUROPEAN MEDIEVAL COSTUME! Should I be offended that there are no distinction between any of the European cultures during this time? Does your psychology of feeling anger towards the pseudo-ization of the diversity of the Native American people warrant me to be upset that every European culture from the medieval ages has been reduced to a single culture?

Would it not be considered more racist to ignore the genre of traditional costumes? Should we sImply remove them from our society's single day where we 'dress up?

I can see how the Pup Shalom costume could be offensive, since it could be seen as disrespectful toward Jewish religious apparel. However, I just don't see how the costume is an anti-Semitic caricature. It makes no reference to stereotypes about Jews. I get the feeling that the costume is mainly marketed to Jews who think it's cute to dress up their dogs for Hanukkah parties or Passover seders.

I think these are ridiculous and they make me want to put stuff on my cat. Not anything relating to anyone's ethnicity or cultural heritage, just y'know, ribbons and stuff.

I'd say the mis-labelling of the costumes is the worst part of the whole 'traditional costume' part.

Just out of curiosity, would lederhosen be considered as bad as the 'Indian' outfit? Modern Germans don't wear lederhosen any more than Mexicans wear ponchos and sombreros.

Yes, these are perhaps cheap and ignorant ans not so serious portrayals of how some people in USA might feel about cultural stereotypes.

But honestly, how is a cultural stereotype in relation with race itself? Cultural does not equal racial. Or are the dogs itself supposed to represent people of different races? Would that black dog dressed up as a "jew" portray a black Jewish person, for an example?

Actually, the only one of these pictures that really bothers me is that "jew" puppy because it associates religious symbolism with dogs.

I find it kind of interesting that when it comes to the classic tacky Halloween costume, everyone reverts to "Indian" instead of "Native American." Someone mentioned above that "Indian" may in fact be preferred, but I hadn't gotten that memo, and I doubt many others have. So I'm surprised the manufacturers would "risk" it. But they seem to, every year.

To me, it makes it hard to miss the throwback nature of the costume itself.
It's a total anachronism. It's "Indian," as in "Cowboys & Indians."
As in, the Indians are the bad guys; bang bang.

I would imagine that not everyone is nostalgic for that.

See, I could see how these could fail to be racist. I'm a Jew, and if I wanted to dabble in animal cruelty and stick my cat in a skullcap, it would be funny in that kind of in-joke way. "Ha, I'm Jewish, and now my cat is too. Sweet."

But this isn't an in-joke. This isn't people dressing up their dogs so as to insinuate that they have a similar identity to their owners. This is wholesale cultural appropriation and trivialization, plain and simple. I expect someone dressing their dog as a Jew for Halloween to make cracks about it being "cheap" when it snaps at other dogs trying to take its bone.

The Jewish one is probably the least offensive of the lot, even though it's a pretty sad misappropriation of holy religious attire to the clothing of animals. The rest of the costumes feature ethnicities that have been ritually destroyed, plain annihilated, or plainly prosecuted in some point, or for all of, American history.

I mean, if I think about people who are the offspring of people who oppressed Jews, who still oppress Jews, and have carte blanche from society to oppress and villianize Jews dressing up as Jews for fun, I'd see red. Shit would hit the fan and people would be sorry. Think of a bunch of totally unrelenting Antisemites putting that shit on their dogs. Shit, think of Ahmadinejad. Now tell me that you think that is appropriate.

As someone who lives in Arizona, I'm pretty much aware that the land I live on was once owned by either a Mexican or a Navajo, and the reason they or someone like them still doesn't own it is because Americans did some genocidal or war shit. So me, dressing my dog or myself up like a Mexican or a Native American, and a totally insulting stereotype of them, is just beyond pale. It's way out of line, and totally insensitive.

Seriously, anyone who fails to see how utterly offensive this stuff is blind. Whether or not I choose to be offended by it is immaterial. Even if I cashed in on my privileged and pleaded ignorance, doesn't change the fact that this is racist and offensive. Because unlike some, I'd aware of the fact that what makes something offensive and racist doesn't begin and end with my self-centered ass.

[quote]Seriously, anyone who fails to see how utterly offensive this stuff is blind. Whether or not I choose to be offended by it is immaterial. Even if I cashed in on my privileged and pleaded ignorance, doesn’t change the fact that this is racist and offensive. Because unlike some, I’d aware of the fact that what makes something offensive and racist doesn’t begin and end with my self-centered ass.[/quote]

I would say that things like this are profoundly offensive. But when it comes to claiming that this racism I tend to disagree to some extent. The things that these costumes portray are not necessarily about actual racial qualities of people but more like cultural stereotypes. Personally I am a bit bothered by this who race thing because in order to make a deal out of it you need to classify people in "races" based on some pseudo-scientific criteria such as colour of skin or whatnot.

Jeremy: Umm, generalize much? Most Germans weren’t alive then and if they were, certainly weren’t of an age to do anything about it

Sure, I generalize all the time just like everybody else.

And I guess there was some confusion about what constitutes "modern day" Germany; as far as I know there were a whole lot of Germans alive in Germany during WWII and though many certainly did try to oppose the Third Reich the whole country still gets the blame, fairly or not. I didn't invade Iraq and I opposed the war before it even started, but as far as the rest of the world is concerned "America" invaded and I've never seen a footnote naming all of us who didn't want "America" to do that. So it goes.

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. You want to see disrespect, that's what you'll see, and I can't help what going on in someone else brain. I can tell hate when I see it and this wasn't hate - not by a long shot. Silly, funny, trival, yes. Mean, cruel, dissgusting - NO.

We're ALL minorities!!! Every single one of us. We need to get over ourselves and see the love and joy in life, not hunt and peck for possible slights. The pictures of the dogs were sweet. They didn't look disrespectful. (If you wanted to dress up your dog in a respectful manner, how would they look any different?)

Geeze, I'm a screaming, bleeding heart liberal, have been for 50 years, but this is just a bit to trival! Isn't there anything more urgent to focus our engeries on?

If you're a hammer, every thing looks like a nail.

Can we at least agree that it's terrible to dress your pet up like anything?

Actually, the term "indian" was used for the indigenous peoples of the Americas by spanish and portuguese colonizers because they thought they had arrived to India. It wasn't until much later that they realized it was a completely different continent. So "indian" was really meant for people from India, and not from America.

I wrote about this back in 2010, specifically around the idea being presented that Antoine Dodson would be one of the "top Halloween costumes" of the year. Sad that this is still relevant today: http://shamelessmag.com/blog/2010/10/why-you-or-your-dog-shouldnt-dress-up-as-antoine-/

I love that Mexican costume for my chihuahua! Could you put up a link to Amazon for that or something! So cute!

Its kind of racist to assume those dogs aren't really Rabbis because of their race.

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but these costumes are not intended to be racist, atheocentric, ethnocentric, or inflammatory (although they clearly can be all of those things) They are objects intended for sale in a capitalistic society where supposedly a "free market" is the hallmark of a "free world" (and we know whats wrong with THAT model). So dont buy them and encourage others not to buy them .. And object to them being so much extra land fill and pollution on the planet, or maybe that they just look stupid. If anything they deprive the poor dogs of their natural dignity .

But the root cause here isnt an intercultural malaise of some sort (humans have been dissing each other of 4 mllion years) its plain old simple profit motive and the consequences of thinking of the whole universe as something to SELL .

Until we abandon the pecuniary model of social organization and devote ourselves as stewards of a fragile planet. All this will go away.

Spanish Bandito

I'm kinda offended. This is what a Spanish bandolero looks like.

I think you are over analyzing costumes. The really sick part has nothing to do with racism but is that Americans will spend $330 million on pet costumes.

I'm giving out packs of crayons this year. Apparently, some kids didn't like the little exam books I gave out last year. Will see if this goes over any better. I kept trying to find baseball type cards for sociologists, but no luck.

None of those look racist to me

Reminder: 'Cultural appropriation' is a ridiculous concept meant to satisfy white people's feelings of altruism in protesting things that most people don't care about

You have to be joking?!! This is truly unbelievable. I am so sick of how everything in our country has to be PC now. I am not a racist, but there is no way anyone is able to laugh and have fun without feeling as if they are being a racist or upsetting someone. I suppose now that I have to try nd stop Octoberfests because it is an insult to my Grman Heritage, or St. Patrick's Day due to everyone implying that Irish people are all alcoholics. I'm Norwegian, also but can't think of anything to be insulted about at the moment. I can't understand why anyone can't see the ridiculousness of this!

bitch shut up

I think it's funny how obviously white some of the people in these comments are. Like no shit you don't care about the appropriation of other cultures, you don't have to live with it or the consequences.

No we can not all agree that because we are not all white ladies trying to impress other white ladies and show off how nice we are. The "Indian" one is highly offensive, the names of the others are weird, but the outfits themselves? Nah. Nice try though! Hopefully you got some self esteem from the house moms who agreed with you in the comments. Perhaps you could use some of the money you earn from the PhD your mommy and daddy bought you and put it to something beneficial instead of wasting your time writing "articles" like this to make yourself feel good.

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