I thought I'd ask about everyone's thoughts on this insane issue. Get a variety of perspectives and such.
As well as links to balanced, decent articles on the issue that don't just mindlessly say "whitey bad because they enjoy stuff from other cultures". It seems difficult to find articles or videos and whatnot that look at the subject from a neutral, balanced viewpoint. At best, I find a flood of stupid articles attacking white people and / or pushing the Neo-Liberal narrative about it.
Post on the old forum:
Erm, bandanas have been a thing in the West for a long time, but usually associated with western North America, in the days before the car. Just watch any old black and white horse opera, especially the original Lone Ranger serials, lots of bandanas there.
But masking the face had become synonymous with "bad guys/bank robbers", so the bandana kind of got demonized the same way the (equally useful, but for cold weather) balaclava and the hoodie did ... and mostly relegated to dogs, the same way out of date satire gets relegated to kids.
Yeah, it was just common sense amongst my older relatives and elderly church people I was raised around - many of whom had grown up during the Great Depression or the Dust Bowl era. Bandanas were functional, not a fashion statement.
You're missing the point here. I'm saying I'm seeing people with Shemaghs explicitly. Not Bandanas. The clothing was introduced to the west as a result of the wars.