“If we didn’t allow each other to share our cultures, what would we be? Gwen Stefani’s music catalog from 2004 onward featured a lot of appearances from the Harajuku Girls. Not when it came to the recording of her music but rather promotional events, concerts and all of the singer’s music videos. The four Japanese Harajuku Girls became a staple …

Some agree while some don’t. Rihanna debuted her Harper’s Bazaar China magazine feature last week that saw the singer dressed in ancient and modern Chinese garb, symbolizing the country’s collision of East and West. The photographers, designers and visual editors behind the shoot were all Chinese but that hasn’t stopped people from calling Rihanna out for cultural appropriation and a …