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Topic 3, Cultural Appropriation in Beauty.

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After writing about the definition and my own opinion on cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation, I will spread beauty, fashion, and music into different posts to understand the differences as I felt that they are actually quite similar. In this post, I will write culture appropriation of beauty, and the history of the culture. Speaking of cultural appropriation of beauty, the first thing and the most popular cases are afro-hair which is cornrows and dreadlocks etc.  Illustration of Shannon Wright. In the history of African Civilisation, hairstyle playing a very important role in black people's life. Hairstyles represent a person's social status, tribes or even family background. People could tell a person's identity just by looking at their hair. For Example, warriors from Wolof tribe would braided their hair when they went to war and the woman who mourning would do a more subdued style or just not doing their hair. "What's more, many