Aladdin Complex
Aladdin Complex by ClayShoaf September 21, 2016
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Aladdin Complex
The obsession with appropriating elements from Arab and South Asian cultures, especially when one does not belong to said cultures, and using them for aesthetics.
Inspired by the 1992 Disney film Aladdin in which non Arab and non South Asian viewers are left confused about where Aladdin is actually set because white people think all brown people are the same ethnic breed and have no purpose of existence outside of fulfilling their exotic fantasies.
This fetishisation, however, is not exclusive to white people and many other PoC have fallen into it, namely East Asians.
The end result of however these cultures are abused is so bizarre and confusing it can only be described as bastardisation. What was meant to look exotic and spicy (whatever the hell that means) is now a hot mess of genie lamps and bindis.
Not the ideal melting pot.
Inspired by the 1992 Disney film Aladdin in which non Arab and non South Asian viewers are left confused about where Aladdin is actually set because white people think all brown people are the same ethnic breed and have no purpose of existence outside of fulfilling their exotic fantasies.
This fetishisation, however, is not exclusive to white people and many other PoC have fallen into it, namely East Asians.
The end result of however these cultures are abused is so bizarre and confusing it can only be described as bastardisation. What was meant to look exotic and spicy (whatever the hell that means) is now a hot mess of genie lamps and bindis.
Not the ideal melting pot.
“Did you see Blackpink’s new comeback teasers?”
“The one where they’re wearing maatha pattis and doing namaste hands?”
“Yeah what the hell was that?”
“Nasty shit, they have a bad case of the Aladdin Complex.”
“The one where they’re wearing maatha pattis and doing namaste hands?”
“Yeah what the hell was that?”
“Nasty shit, they have a bad case of the Aladdin Complex.”
Aladdin Complex by jackblessings July 19, 2020
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