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What to know about babywearing and cultural appropriation

3 points by missinfo 5y ago

hw-guy 5y ago
Reads like a parody of wokeness, complete with all the jargon: "colonized," "racialized," "BIPOC," etc. China has over a billion people; in what world is it a "minority culture"?
- PaulHoule 5y ago
  Also Japan and China culturally appropriate the West. A friend of mine was in China and saw a Santa Claus plushie being crucified in a store. My wife and I wore our baby as much as we could, we were aware it was something that makes sense and that people do in many cultures. Being white doesn't mean you have to buy a massive SUV to pack a cumbersome oversized stroller.
chuckee 5y ago
Yet another in a long line of articles that denies via omission the existence of any European culture prior to the Victorian era, and entirely ignores eastern Europe and Slavic people. It should be plainly obvious that mothers needed to carry their babies in Europe just as anywhere else, and that they probably didn't use baby strollers since the paleolithic. A quick search confirms this: Such a tradition of babywearing in Europe continued through the early and middle ages [..] In 1733, William Kent invented the first baby stroller. The stroller was initially reserved only for the highest social strata - https://love2carry.com/history-of-babywearing-in-europe-%E2%9D%A4/ https://love2carry.com/history-of-babywearing-in-europe-%E2%... But the use of carriers in Western societies fell out of style beginning in Victorian-era Europe when baby carriages became fashionable. - https://www.sapiens.org/culture/babywearing-culture-mainstream/ https://www.sapiens.org/culture/babywearing-culture-mainstre... https://thebabyhistorian.com/2015/03/27/medieval-babywearing-european-infant-carriers/ https://thebabyhistorian.com/2015/03/27/medieval-babywearing... https://web.archive.org/web/20121114155357/http://celticbabycarrying.blogspot.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20121114155357/http://celticbaby... and https://web.archive.org/web/20140531182023/http://www.nosenideti.cz/foto.php?volba=zobrazit_foto&skupina_id=3&foto_id=135&tridit=datum#obrazek https://web.archive.org/web/20140531182023/http://www.noseni... - photographic evidence of traditional babywearing in Wales and eastern Europe

3 points by missinfo 5y ago

Reads like a parody of wokeness, complete with all the jargon: "colonized," "racialized," "BIPOC," etc. China has over a billion people; in what world is it a "minority culture"?

PaulHoule 5y ago
Also Japan and China culturally appropriate the West. A friend of mine was in China and saw a Santa Claus plushie being crucified in a store. My wife and I wore our baby as much as we could, we were aware it was something that makes sense and that people do in many cultures. Being white doesn't mean you have to buy a massive SUV to pack a cumbersome oversized stroller.

chuckee 5y ago

Yet another in a long line of articles that denies via omission the existence of any European culture prior to the Victorian era, and entirely ignores eastern Europe and Slavic people. It should be plainly obvious that mothers needed to carry their babies in Europe just as anywhere else, and that they probably didn't use baby strollers since the paleolithic. A quick search confirms this: Such a tradition of babywearing in Europe continued through the early and middle ages [..] In 1733, William Kent invented the first baby stroller. The stroller was initially reserved only for the highest social strata - https://love2carry.com/history-of-babywearing-in-europe-%E2%9D%A4/ https://love2carry.com/history-of-babywearing-in-europe-%E2%... But the use of carriers in Western societies fell out of style beginning in Victorian-era Europe when baby carriages became fashionable. - https://www.sapiens.org/culture/babywearing-culture-mainstream/ https://www.sapiens.org/culture/babywearing-culture-mainstre... https://thebabyhistorian.com/2015/03/27/medieval-babywearing-european-infant-carriers/ https://thebabyhistorian.com/2015/03/27/medieval-babywearing... https://web.archive.org/web/20121114155357/http://celticbabycarrying.blogspot.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20121114155357/http://celticbaby... and https://web.archive.org/web/20140531182023/http://www.nosenideti.cz/foto.php?volba=zobrazit_foto&skupina_id=3&foto_id=135&tridit=datum#obrazek https://web.archive.org/web/20140531182023/http://www.noseni... - photographic evidence of traditional babywearing in Wales and eastern Europe