>What someone wears is a part of their self-expression. It's not just part of their "self-expression". It's a reflection on the broader community as a whole.

>What someone wears is a part of their self-expression. It's not just part of their "self-expression". It's a reflection on the broader community as a whole. To give a concrete example, I personally think highly of black Africans in Australia because they're always well-dressed, well-groomed, physically fit and clean. Back when I lived in Sunshine (area formerly inhabited by white trash, being rapidly gentrified by migrants), the gaunt, green-faced, drug-addicted beggars and whores with welts all over their skin would reflect badly on me. It was a big enough deal that I just needed to go one suburb over and suddenly would be treated well. Call people like this a bigot or shallow or whatever you want, but this is the global norm and almost everybody seems to understand it except young Westerners.