Washington Redskins Logo The Washington Redskins are a football team in the NFL (National Football League). Their logo and mascot is a Native American Indian. Using Native Americans names or symbols by non-native people is a form of controlling images and the three pillars of white supremacy in particular colonialism (Erickson, 2017). The Washington’s team logo/mascot could be considered harmful due to the nature of the image. For instance, the word “redskin” can be perceived derogatory. It is believed that it came from early American settlers that referenced the skin color of Native Americans thus creating “redskin”. This logo and mascot are being appropriated from the Native American Culture, and the “redskin” term should be a legitimately …show more content…
They believe that once you die everything else is gone except the tattoo it lives forever, “It tied the tribal people to nature, their individuality, and their spirituality” (Phamvk, 2017). When the Western part of the world invaded and colonialism (Erickson, 2017) the Pacific Islands, their traditions like tattooing was changed forever (Phamvk, 2017). Seeing non-native people getting traditional Polynesian tattoos could be seen as not only disrespectful, but a form of orientalism (Erickson, 2017). As the Western part of the world considerers themselves superior, it is here in the Pacific Islands that this art form comes from, and it being destroyed. As long as Westerners continue to appropriate these images through tattoos for their own use, they will destroy any meaning they once had. Image 3 – White people portraying Asian characters in film People within the Asian community have endured for years the whitewashing of their culture. So, they had the right to be upset when Scarlett Johansson who is a white woman was cast in the role, as a part of Japanese Anime character named Motoko Kusanagi, in Ghost in the