RE: "Cultural Appropriation"
June 7, 2017 at 9:06 am
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2017 at 9:15 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You know, you might have guessed that cultural appropriation and cultural exchange weren't the same thing..what with people using distinct terms to refer to separate and disparate phenomena......where have you been getting your information?
Cultural exchange is fine (I'd even go so far as to call it inevitable and necessary). When that cultural "exchange" is one sided and usory........it ceases to be exchange, or fine. A people taking what they like from some culture, changing it to suite their purposes, claiming it in a sense, in effect, or overtly...and discarding both the culture and the people from which it originated. Cultural appropriation, cultural misappropriation, etc.
Raid and motherfucking pillage, lol. It may even be that thi raiding and pillaging, distinct from being amelting poit (as it were) is baked in to humanity...and it;s difficult to stop it from happening...just as it;s difficult to stop people from cultural exchange (and probably for the same reasons in both cases)...but it's still cultural appropriation. The relative ease of preventing it does not change what it is.
Cultural exchange is fine (I'd even go so far as to call it inevitable and necessary). When that cultural "exchange" is one sided and usory........it ceases to be exchange, or fine. A people taking what they like from some culture, changing it to suite their purposes, claiming it in a sense, in effect, or overtly...and discarding both the culture and the people from which it originated. Cultural appropriation, cultural misappropriation, etc.
Raid and motherfucking pillage, lol. It may even be that thi raiding and pillaging, distinct from being amelting poit (as it were) is baked in to humanity...and it;s difficult to stop it from happening...just as it;s difficult to stop people from cultural exchange (and probably for the same reasons in both cases)...but it's still cultural appropriation. The relative ease of preventing it does not change what it is.
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