Washington, Oct 26 (ANI): A group of students in America's Ohio University have launched a campaign against some Halloween costumes which would hurt and humiliate people from minority ethnic groups.
A student group at the University called 'Students Teaching Against Racism in Society', created a poster campaign to highlight the racial stereotyping in Halloween party dresses, the Daily Mail reports.
The posters highlight the crass racial and cultural stereotypes that emerge in the Halloween fancy dress event each year.
The campaign, headlined 'We're a culture, not a costume', shows images of people of different ethnic groups holding up images partygoers whose costumes they say sarcastically criticizes their cultures.
According to the report, a poster showed a young Arab-American man holding up an image of a Halloween reveller wearing an Arabic dress and a suicide bombers vest.
Another showed a Native American man holding a picture of two women with paint on their faces and feathers in their hair holding a sign reading, 'Me wantum piece... not war.'
Above each image, the posters read, 'This is not who I am, and this is not okay.'
The group has provoked an online row over whether the costumes are actually racist, or whether they are just in good fun.
The website comments were split over whether the costumes could be judged offensive.any people could see nothing wrong with dressing according to racial stereotypes.
"People need to get a sense of humour, and quit taking everything so seriously.
If I can't dress like a bandito then nobody can dress like a ghost because I don't have a tan and I find it offensive," wrote a blogger. (ANI)
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