Holi Powder Analysis

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In Tasneem Raja article,” Dear White Artist Making Music Videos in India: Step Away from The ‘Holi Powder” posted in February 2016, discusses the use of Holi powder in western artist’s music videos. She makes an argument that western musicians do not respect an Indian tradition and instead use the Holi powder as if they were playing games. The context of this article is trying to get western musicians to understand what Holi powder is used for. I personally recommend this article to PopMatters Persuasive Prize. Because she supports her ethos with her own personal experience since she is in fact Indian and knows her own traditions. She also has logos through facts and pathos through her use of words, rhetorical questions, and while getting her …show more content…

Raja uses this to make the readers think they are just playing a game with a bunch of paint. But in fact they are using the Holi powder in a very wrong way. The way the western musicians are showing the world the traditional Holi powder are not the correct. Her type of diction is colloquial since she uses some type of formal writing but also has a bit of slang in it by not having any real formal vocabulary in the paper. Since this is not a formal article she expresses her feelings towards this …show more content…

They need to figure out the real India and not the one people see on the TV. Because it seems that people think that what they see on the TV is always correct and never look at the bigger picture. People in the west do not really want to know what they use Holi powder and just make it seem as it was for nothing but a game of paintball. That needs to change because some people like Raja take that really offensive. If someone was to make a game of a tradition of the same culture as yours then you would feel the same as her. Raja than uses the rhetorical appeal logic when she,” fully get that music videos are largely about escapism, and celebrities dressing up in fabulous clothes, and dreamy landscapes…” (Raja par. 7) Raja gets that it should not be taken so serious because western artist are not doing it on purpose. Its not suppose to be totally correct but they still need to be able to understand what they are They are not educated on this type of culture and they should be given a lesson on it before they do something like use Holi Powder in their music

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