Pharrell Williams Urged To Rename His ‘Holi’ Adidas Collection For ‘Trivializing’ Hindu Religion

What a fail
Like ijdk how they could sit around the table from jump and green light this. The symbols, video concept.

I never saw that video nnn why is he acting like that

About shoes, I just got pair of On sneakers. I'm so ready to get out of my blunstone's, luv them but I need a break.

Stick to creating vintage tennis kits, Pharrell. I loved those.

Has anyone watched the video? Why is he looking like he's annoyed/weirded out? And everyone is being nice and explaining things??

The secondhand embarrassment was too strong so I skipped parts

Seriously it was damn rude, Ranveer was explaining the significance of the festival so nicely and Pharrell looked like he was bored out of his damn mind.

I was seriously confused, like maybe he thinks he looks serious and focused?? Or is it just an ~aesthetics look?

Either way I would have been tempted to stop explaining anything

He seriously looks so out of it omg especially compared to the other two who are upbeat like what the hell is going on

Edited at 2018-03-12 08:14 pm (UTC)

There was a post about him looking miserable in India a little while back.

https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/109830083.html

YES lmfao, like he looks so pisssed/disgruntled/serious with that bleached ass head and pigment on his face while everyone looks like they actually want to be there

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That ship has sailed with „Holi electro festival“ number 10000. do you have these in the US? They r all over Europe, strangely since the year I actually been to India

He’s been garbage.

it never struck this grown man that using symbols and colors from a religion you don't even follow for your own profit was a shady idea? gtfo.

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"their women" ???

hinduism is the third largest religion in the world and very diverse. as with most religions, views on gender, sexuality, class, etc., vary according to time, culture and society.

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oop lmao

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Couldn't they have just been inspired by the colors w/o incorporating Hindu symbols...also in the video he looks like Tricky in The Fifth Element. Yikes.

this is so embarrassing and doubly so because they put hindu symbols ON THE SHOE omg

it’s so disrespectful. Hindus revere those symbols and pharrel just put them in a place that gets dust and mud all over it smh

YOUR ICON

i looked at the pictures of the shoes online. there are no hindu symbols. this guy is a publicity hungry clown

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I for the life of me can't get it together enough to write a comment that makes sense so I'm gonna take the simplistic approach:

This is bad.

Edited at 2018-03-12 08:45 pm (UTC)

who thot this was a good idea. speak up, fools

I am guessing not one Hindu felt empowered enough to speak up in meetings about this -- like Pharell walked in and was like "whats this holly festival in india I see on tv, I wanna make a shoe like that" and the only Hindu in the room was prob like "I wanna keep my job"

lmao indian american hindus have skewed priorities when it comes to their faith and community. sorry to say this as a lower caste person whose parents converted to christianity because of hinduism's inherent inequality, it's amazing how liberal desi hindus in america have taken over the appropriation discourse and mostly have infantile posts about bindi and sari appropriation instead of checking and protesting the funding that nris keep sending to india to fund the worst kind of hindu fundamentalist groups. not to mention the rampant casteism, anti-blackness and islamophobia.

anyway this guy is a publicity hungry charlatan who is a self-proclaimed "priest"/"chaplain" (wtf) without any information about who has ordained him. he makes his living out of creating these circles of dumb internet outrage about every trivial thing and liberal indians here view him with suspicion. the few that know him that is, because he's a fringe joker. i can't believe he's called a "statesman". https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/american-hindu-behind-boycottamazon-rajan-zeds-crusades-save-hinduism-44433
https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/exupq/rajan_zed_is_not_a_statesman_and_is_a_fraud/

This ain’t the Oppression Olympics though. You can be offended by cultural appropriation and want Indian society to get better in the same breath.

Issues of this sort mainly come from feelings from young immigrants and especially children of immigrants in Western countries. It's like how when they interview people in Japan about whitewashing, they didn't care/see it as a problem but Asian Americans did. I know a lot of people in India are enthusiastic about sharing culture, like in the video with the celebrities. Many of the people who care about cultural appropriation of South Asian cultures don't know much of the politics in India but are more thinking back on how they have been treated for their cultural background in their Western country - how wearing a bindi as a brown person can bring about ridicule but non-brown celebrities wearing it as a fashion statement is now "cool".

Edit: I don't want to make it seem like I'm arguing with you, obviously I am using personal experience of why people may feel this way about cultural appropriation here - I was a very young kid when I went to the playground with my sister and still had a bindi on from attending temple before and was called an ethnic slur and not for that reason but just general issues about being different as a kid, I was always reluctant to wear cultural dress out and about away from weddings/relative homes/temples.

Edited at 2018-03-12 10:53 pm (UTC)

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