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  • Wearing a native american headdress to a Chiefs game would not be considered stolen valor unless the person is implying that they are actually a native american chief, just as wearing a purple heart previously mentioned would constitute stolen valor if the person implies that they were injured in the military but infact were not.

    If there was a football team like “New Jersey Admirals,” then I don’t think it would be unusual or stolen valor for people attending to dress in an admiral costume. They are replicating the mascot of the sport team, not implying that they themselves are actually admirals of a military.

    If you dressed as a Sikh and attended the party, intent may come into play if the party was not one where attendees would be wearing costumes or clothing not common to the culture of the surrounding area. Was the person wearing the clothing because they liked it, or were they intentionally trying to slander people of a specific culture? Is targetted slander the same as wearing something you like the look of? Even if the person is not being respectful and makes no effort to learn about the culture, is it really worth it to be mad about instead of being happy to see some elements of your culture being spread to places where it may not have otherwise?

    For example, Americans are often called fat, lazy, unintelligent, gun crazy anarchists, and are portrayed by many foreign media as such. I don’t get offended at charicatures of Americans from other countries or nations. Partially because its kinda true, but also it means that the other nation is being introduced to Americans. Some people may see that and think “That’s ridiculous, they can’t all be like that,” leading those interested to look it up and see what America is about or like. Some may choose to vacation where they otherwise may have never taken an interest in America. I mean, I wouldn’t recommend it because America kinda sucks depending on where they go, but its only an example.


  • I don’t think that’s a problem. Even if a person has no idea why a culture does something, but they like how it looks, I smile when I see them attempting to copy it. Even if they get it wrong, they thought that part of the culture was cool. And maybe them replicating incorrectly can lead to a new emergent culture.

    I think a military medal is a bit different from something like cultural specific clothing, foods, or music. That calls into it stolen valor, which is a different issue. But putting a purple colored heart shape onto something isn’t a problem.

    Additionally, costumes aren’t a problem either, so long as it is worn in an appropriate place. For example, wearing a military costume to a costume party, or other event where people are expected to wear costumes. It wouldn’t be appropriate to wear a military costume when trying to enter a military complex or parade, but that is generally pretty obvious to anyone regardless of culture.


  • This isn’t racist, but that has become a pretty popular term to call people lately.

    Different cultures are not bad. I even say they’re good. For example, people who complain about stuff like “cultural appropriation” make me laugh. They want to hoard their culture to themselves, rather than celebrate that more people are taking an interest in their culture.

    The problem, as I said, is migrants that do not integrate. Which is not all migrants. Cultures can be integrated and blended together, you see it all over the USA. But there are some migrants that hold onto their culture like a dragon hoarding gold, and you can practically see it like a wall in a city. They refuse to integrate and instead maintain a hard line between them and the original population. It’s like pockets of different countries within a culturally mixed country, rather than people of different cultures living together.


  • Isn’t it the fact that its a “percussion instrument” that makes it legal, not its antiquity?

    Its both. First, the firearm must be manufactured in or before 1898. Anything made in 1899 or newer is legally a firearm. Second, the firing mechanism can be anything (matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, even cartridge firing) so long as the ammunition it fires is not widely commercially available, and if the firearm is not modified to be able to fire modern center or rimfire ammunition. Machine guns and shotguns that have been shortened below 16 inches are always considered firearms regardless of their date of manufacture. An antique firearm can have all of its parts completely replaced and still be considered an antique as long as it uses the original receiver.

    Like I thought anyone can go online and buy a Kentucky rifle kit online legally?

    Yes, this is true. You dont need to buy these through an FFL and you don’t need to register them. The law also applies to replicas, as long as the replica is manufactured in the same design in or prior to 1898, not allowing modern ammunition to be fired as well etc, following the above qualifications. Anyone can buy Kentucky Rifle kits and other such kits, and those are considered antique firearms according to law. But the ones with black plastic bodies that look like modern firearms, despite being muzzleloaders or even black powder guns, are not considered antique because they are not replicating a firearm manufactured in or prior to 1898.


  • Immigrants aren’t always a bad thing, but sometimes immigrants fail or outright refuse to integrate into their new home and instead try to change their new home to be similar to the place they left behind. Which is kind of ironic because the reason they left was because they didn’t like it there, but then they eventually end up creating the same situation that made them leave.

    Additionally, immigrants can have negative economic impacts like if they undercut other workers. If they take jobs at lower pay than usual, then the original population workers who are already working are fired and replaced with the cheaper labor, causing unemployment in the original population. Different cultures have different common crimes which are usually carried over with immigrants that refuse to integrate into their new home. Differences between the immigrants and original population lead to new emergent crimes as well.

    Its not that immigrants or immigration is bad. This certainly doesn’t apply to every immigrant, or even every immigrant from a specific culture. The problem is when immigrants do not integrate, whether they were not educated enough or whether they intentionally refuse to. It can wreak all sorts of havoc on a nations stability, economy, etc., depending on how much of an influx of migration occurs.


  • Just another point to your first sentence:

    I have a pistol and rifle, both are so old that legally they’re not even considered firearms anymore. The pistol is from 1600s Britain and the rifle is from 1700s US. Both can be fired still thanks to either good maintenance or restoration prior to my ownership, but they require specialty ammunition and genuine black gunpowder. They’re legally considered antiques.

    If ever they were “destroyed,” if they weren’t in a museum then they’d just be stripped, with the wood probably being chipped and the metal being recycled.