Cultural Appropriation

[Dystopia]

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.

When I was in highschool, my philosophy teacher said culture doesn't have a definition and it's a phenomenon in constant mutation and evolution. It makes sense. I agree with you, but I don't think this is simply people's color, it has more to do with their societal habits. For example, my black friend has more in common with me and the majority of white peers in our group than with a black person living in America with a different culture. I think it's fine to enjoy different cultures, what I think is wrong is when someone directly or indirectly tries to use a cultural habit that they don't know anything about and pretend it is their/that they know it - I.E. People who don't speak Spanish fluently and have never learned the language trying to pretend they speak Spanish just because it sounds cool. IMO it is retarded. Another problem is when people perpetuate stereotypes. Ok, I'm going to dress up as an Indian for carnival. What's that? Basically the most grossly exaggerated stereotype of an Indian. Yes it may be funny for some people, but if you were an Indian you would feel (probably) uncomfortable (at least I would).