A white Brazilian 19-year-old, bald from the chemotherapy used to fight her cancer, was slammed for wearing turbans to cover her head, accused of cultural appropriation.
After Thuaune Cordeiro posted pictures on Facebook of herself wearing a turban, for wearing a turban to conceal her baldness, she was criticized because most turban-wearers in Brazil are black. Cordeiro recounted an incident on her Facebook page in which a black woman accosted her on the street
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