Is a Moana Halloween costume crossing cultural appropriation boundaries?

Question

http://nypost.com/2017/10/16/moms-worry-trick-or-treating-as-moana-is-cultural-appropriation/amp/
Basically a mother had a conversation with her child (who wanted to dress up as Moana for Halloween) about cultural appropriation, so the child dressed up as Elsa (from frozen) instead. What are everyone’s thoughts??
And...go.

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No👏🏽its👏🏽not👏🏽
It's a character that kids look up to.

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It’s a specific character, however the skin painting is crossing lines like that one costume
of the guy character from Moana, where it gave the kids dark skin. As long as people aren’t painting themselves dark and are dressing as a SPECIFIC character.

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I generally think specific characters are ok as long as you're not painting your skin or changing your features.

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Let the  kids wear the costume

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No. It’s character from a Disney movie.

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Nope my little indian baby is dressing as Moana... that's one of her favorite movies and she has no clue what cultural appropriation is.

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a child won't understand it in an offensive way and you shouldn't have to tell your child they can't be Moana just because of what other people might think of it being inappropriate.

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It's a specific character, so no, as long as they aren't wearing face paint to look darker.

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Kids are taught race. They don’t see color. Wish the rest of the world could see through the eyes of a child!

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Sighs. Appropriation is such an easily understood concept im always confused when grown adults get it so twisted.

Is a Moana Halloween costume crossing cultural appropriation boundaries?

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