Cultural Appropriation

[Dystopia]

I'm a white guitarist who plays blues and jazz. I really don't give a shit whether someone thinks I'm taking someone else's culture or not, because it's the musical expression that speaks to me, not the image.

I'm an American who loves eating Italian food.  I don't give a shit whether someone thinks I'm stealing their culture or not, because it's the taste I'm savoring, not the ability to fake being Italian by eating their food.

Culture is only a mass-produced phenomenon if you allow it to be so in your mind. There's nothing at all wrong with picking and choosing the different elements of different cultures that you most enjoy. If that induces butthurt in the perpetually-offended, it's all the better.

Thump, I don't disagree with you, but enjoying is different from what I described above - Using another group's culture (that you probably do not understand if you were never educated about it) as if it was yours and promoting stereotypes. 

Yes, enjoy Italian food all you want, I enjoy it too - But I don't go out pretending I'm an Italian now because I tasted Italian food, and I don't pretend I can comprehensively understand the background, subculture and origins of every Italian dish as if I was raised by Italians (unless I actually was). Every person is brought up with a cultural background. It is impossible to understand everyone else's by 100%. I don't know a lot about American culture outside hollywood and every mass corporate marketed product (globalization), so I'm not going to think all American culture is that and that all Americans are fast-food addicts, fat and ignorant.