Cultural Appropriation

[Thumpalumpacus]

Thump, I don't think quoting a wikipedia definition will prove your point - Even so, perhaps I'm just using a stricter definition of cultural appropriation, and it is my right to do so - The word appropriation itself, derives from Latin, "appropriationem", and one of the possible meanings is "take possession of", so it confirms my view that it's taking something as if it was yours, not just enjoying it.

I'm going by what seems to be the commonly-agreed usage.

I'm unimpressed by appealing to etymology for current meanings, though. A word is not its roots. This is especially clear here, where the subject matter is abstract, yet you're using a word in a particular sense because its etymology denotes "taking possession" -- as if that may be done at all with the abstract.

If you think appropriation is simply cooking Italian food or listening to Blues, then I would agree that it's fine, except I'd prefer to call it cultural exchange because I'm not appropriating anything as my own, I'm just learning about it and using it.

I'd suggest you go back and reread my post. This time, read the entire thing. I make it very clear that I do not think that "appropriation is simply cooking Italian food or listening to Blues"; I make it very clear that I see the justice of the complaints about, say, the adoption of native costumes. As for me, I am appropriating the blues -- because like everyone else, I have them some times, and the music is the perfect language for expressing them.

If you'd like to call it "cultural exchange", great, except I haven't given anything back. It's still cultural appropriation.

Well, it looks like they are misappropriating your culture then

No, what they're doing is being bigots.

Similarly, I don't like it when Portuguese people from the south make fun of my northern accent, and I do think they are insulting the culture of most northerns, but I don't stop them from doing it... I just think it is wrong and prejudiced

Such exists everywhere. Confusing bigotry with the borrowing of cultural elements (which strikes me as an effort by SJWs to clothe their snobbery in righteousness) only makes the bigotry harder to combat, while not advancing the cause of celebrating the diversity of all people.

That's what really irks me about this concept of cultural appropriation: the idea that "this is mine" replaces the idea that "this is ours". We're all people, yet this movement celebrates putting up walls rather than tearing them down.