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Cultural Appropriation

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Cultural Affiliation

Gwen Stefani had four Japanese women decked out in Harajuku fashions as her backup dancers for music videos and live shows. The perfumes for the fragrance line came in these bottles that were made to look like her Harajuku backup dancers. It's just a really bad look for Gwen, who is a white woman from California, to make millions of a perfume line featuring Japanese faces,. especially in the context of California.

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