go native go kitsch

Making native cultures cute and kitsch is just one of the tactics of modernity to domesticate the Other within while training children to perform in the spectacle of state-sponsored multiculturalism. I spent many weekends of my childhood in "traditional" Chinese costumes spinning fans and in half and full splits -- now the Chinese-American girls have moved to "native" cultures, more skin, more feathers, more "primitive."

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