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Wearing qipao to prom is not cultural appropriation

By Berlin Fang | China Daily | Updated: 2018-05-19 07:41

Several social media sites I visited recently carried stories about the controversy over a US student wearing a Chinese qipao to prom. My initial reaction was: Oh, no. Senator Marco Rubio will testify to the US Congress that wearing a qipao is a national security risk.

It turned out that the event was less dramatic: the robe was worn as a prom dress by Keziah Daum, a student from a Utah high school, which probably does not have a Confucius Institute to make the increasingly belligerent Rubio worried.

Keziah has a creative bent of mind, as her choice of qipao for her prom was entirely different from others. Most high-school students would play it safe by shopping for a dress with a style similar to the ones their peers wear. So what's the fuss?

Wearing qipao to prom is not cultural appropriation

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