Cultural Appropriation

[SteelCurtain]

Bored over Xmas break and read the books.

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My brother has gone through the "wigger" phase for about the last 25 years. All his clothes, music, everything. It's painful to see.

I'm a firm believer that people can dress and express themselves however they like, but some of these "wiggers" are fucking idiots. Most of them are middle class to upper class kids who don't know what its actually like to live in shitty areas, etc and things that are usually associated with being "Ghetto" or whatever.

Hell even some black rappers are like that these days.

[robvalue]

Sure, I agree. People can do whatever they want. It's just weird to watch someone try to conform to a stereotype, and to try and rub it into everyone's faces at every opportunity.

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Sure, I agree. People can do whatever they want. It's just weird to watch someone try to conform to a stereotype, and to try and rub it into everyone's faces at every opportunity.

We're in agreement then.

[robvalue]

I had to listen to his fucking gangster rap music all day every day at high volume, because my parents wouldn't step in and make him turn it down.

I actually quite like a few of the tracks now, but when it was forced down my throat continually it was hard to appreciate them at the time.

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I had to listen to his fucking gangster rap music all day every day at high volume, because my parents wouldn't step in and make him turn it down.

I actually quite like a few of the tracks now, but when it was forced down my throat continually it was hard to appreciate them at the time.

Next time you see him, ask him if he's heard of Twiztid. They're actually pretty good, their old songs were definitely much better.

[bennyboy]

So I was hanging out with my cousin the other day and he shows up dressed as the worst black stereotype available. Like a total Lil' Wayne knock off. And this idiot opens his mouth and says "I'm all about that thug life." I of course look at this fool like he's lost his damn mind. We were raised in pockets of accountants and bankers, in gated communities on the shores of Lake Erie WTF does he think he knows about "thug life". But it all got me thinking, can black people appropriate black culture? For instance I love blues music but do I really have comprehension being cosseted most of my life to appreciate it in its fullness, or am I just siphoning off a cool sound?

Plenty of obnoxious white kids appropriate black culture-- little white suburban homies with their hats on sideways and their pants falling down or whatever.  So certainly if a black kid wants to do it, that's no greater an evil.

Or maybe it is.  Maybe black kids embracing black stereotypes makes them traitors to the efforts of real black people in being seen as individual humans with their own tastes and views.  But at least it's not this:

[account_inactive]

So I was hanging out with my cousin the other day and he shows up dressed as the worst black stereotype available. Like a total Lil' Wayne knock off. And this idiot opens his mouth and says "I'm all about that thug life." I of course look at this fool like he's lost his damn mind. We were raised in pockets of accountants and bankers, in gated communities on the shores of Lake Erie WTF does he think he knows about "thug life". But it all got me thinking, can black people appropriate black culture? For instance I love blues music but do I really have comprehension being cosseted most of my life to appreciate it in its fullness, or am I just siphoning off a cool sound?

Plenty of obnoxious white kids appropriate black culture-- little white suburban homies with their hats on sideways and their pants falling down or whatever.  So certainly if a black kid wants to do it, that's no greater an evil.

Or maybe it is.  Maybe black kids embracing black stereotypes makes them traitors to the efforts of real black people in being seen as individual humans with their own tastes and views.

1. What's black culture? You're making it sound like wearing side ways hats and rapping is black culture, it's not.
2. Cultural appropriation doesn't exist. But yes kids wearing sideways hats are annoying.

[Whateverist]

Scotland for the win.

*Scotland the Brave starts to play*

Crikey!  Are you a ginger then?

[Whateverist]

My brother has gone through the "wigger" phase for about the last 25 years. All his clothes, music, everything. It's painful to see.

And that puts me in mind of some awful movie in which Steve Martin is raised in a poor black family.  Talk about your stereotypes.