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Sweet 16 dress clarification
First, a question. Was the birthday girl Hispanic? If so, it probably wasn't sweet 16 but sweet 15.
Second, turning 15 for Hispanic girls is a BIG deal. It is tradionally when they become women, so to speak. This event is marked a big party in which the birthday girl wears a big, much like a wedding dress, dress. The dress is not always white, it can be many colors but they usually are light colors.
The whole thing is very much like a debutante ball.
So, before you go and judge people's parties, dresses, etc, get your head out of your ass and stop being so ethnocentric.
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Re: Sweet 16 dress clarification
It's called a quincinera or something like that..
And rawr... I didn't see that post being ethnocentric.
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Wow... um ok, considering the cake says 16 and all the captions on FB say sweet 16 I am going with that. An no, it looks like Italian maybe...these are my NYC.
Regardless - when is it OK in ANY culture to wear a leather dress one too many sizes too small showing tattoos going up to God knows where?
It has nothing to do w/ culture - it's called tact.
Chill. I think she was more commenting on the fact that the woman in the picture was wearing a skanktastic dress and covered in tattoos. I dont care what ethnicity or how old you are - that is innapropriate and nasty.
There is but even then, it could still what I'm talking about. Here in the US families wait til the girl is 16 to fit it into the American tradition a little better.
Wow, I think that was a little over-reactive. Do you know the details of every coming of age ceremony for every culture in the world? I hardly think that someone not knowing about a sweet 15 means they have their head in their ass. (BTW, I did know about the 15 year old thing for hispanic girls, but this was a sweet SIXTEEN). I also have a lot of hispanic friends who never had any sort of over the top party for their 15th year.
Thanks for coming out.
I find this part especially funny since you just said this to a Jew in the South...
I wasn't talking about the woman in the foreground.
I thought the point was the woman in the silverish grey dress?
Even if it weren't, there is a big 16 on the cake. And sweet sixteen parties like that are ridiculous. A lot of Quincea?eras are ridiculous, too. Not liking something that a certain culture does is not ethnocentric. Accusation fail.
she was making fun of the silver "dress" in the pic - not anyone's celebrations or ethinicities.
So then what is your problem then? Since that is what we were all talking about and the reason I posted the picture.
I simply made a comment that the birthday girl's dress looked more like a wedding dress than my own wedding dress. Sorry if you think that means I have my head in my a$$.... Like I said, you're saying this to a Jewish person living in the Bible Belt, so maybe you should think about stuff like that before you accuse someone of being close minded, etc.
I wasn't saying you shouldn't speak your mind... I din't even partecipate in the post, it was just a minor clarification because I happened to see the number "16"
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No one said anything bad about her dress. There were a couple comments on how fancy it was. Big freakin deal. I've said the same thing about peoples' actual wedding dresses too, and peoples' prom dresses. Some dresses are more wedding-y than others. It's really not a big deal.
Um this one from the OP: " I think her dress looks more wedding-y than my wedding dress! " Seriously, it was on observation in that the dress was very white and wedding like - that is ALL. Chill the eff out.
Try being a little more relevant next time and you won't come across so much as being an AW. Just saying.
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MrsJuneHawk, you were looking to start drama and it didnt work. Your attempt to call someone out as racist/ignorant was a sham.
It'll be okay.
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Ugh, now I'm craving popcorn!!?
Ok then please, enlighten us, what was your goal of this post? What was so culturally or racially offensive? Should I be offended that you don't seem to know about Bar or Bat Mitzvahs in MY culture? Or be offended that you assumed I was close minded about culture when it sounds like MY culture has something just like what you're talking about? Maybe before YOU judge you should get your head out of your a$$. Sorry, but I don't appreciate being called close minded or judgemental when it comes to culture when I am the furthest thing from it and posted an innocent/fun post about a woman in a dress way too small and weird.
In any culture a few of those dresses are beyond trashy/tacky.
And in my area (a very high Latino population) quincineras are celebrated at 15. The influx of sweet 16 parties should be blamed on MTV.