RE: Cultural Appropriation
January 24, 2016 at 2:15 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2016 at 2:16 pm by Fidel_Castronaut.)
It's not just 'black culture', it's culture per se. The word exists in a vacuum because one can use it to describe almost anything.
What exactly does one mean when they say 'black culture'? Is a 1st gen immigrant from the Carribean who settled in an East End London constituency going to have anything in common, culturally, socially, politically, at all with a gangbanger from LA? Or a Gambian tour guide? Or a judge from Australia? Will her children? Or their children?
I am not bothered in the slightest when people 'appropriate' (???) behaviours, attitudes, stances, from other societal demographics. Humans have been doing that for as long as humans have been around. They'll continue until people learn to actually not give two shits about a person's 'colour' and actually just see the person as a person. Fat chance of that though.
What exactly does one mean when they say 'black culture'? Is a 1st gen immigrant from the Carribean who settled in an East End London constituency going to have anything in common, culturally, socially, politically, at all with a gangbanger from LA? Or a Gambian tour guide? Or a judge from Australia? Will her children? Or their children?
I am not bothered in the slightest when people 'appropriate' (???) behaviours, attitudes, stances, from other societal demographics. Humans have been doing that for as long as humans have been around. They'll continue until people learn to actually not give two shits about a person's 'colour' and actually just see the person as a person. Fat chance of that though.
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