"Cultural Appropriation"

[The Grand Nudger]

A lot to reply to there. But as a quick response. I'm not from your country, its likely that there's cultural similarities between me and you but I wouldn't say there's a thing known as our culture.

Then you would not be on the hook for those things..noit even as an artifact of culture.  Right?  Why, then, spend so much time arguing a point that doesn;t even apply to you.  

I;m guessing, though, that somewhere in your own culture you have your own cultural appropriation to reconcile...just as some culture ha probably done the same to yours.

And I forgot that the appropriated culture has to be in the minority and have had a colonial relationship with the apropriator.

It's very difficult to pull off otherwise.  Don't you think?  How would a minority population who does not have access to the levers of control so effectively assert their will that they could rape and pillage the dominant demographic culture and prevent them from doing anything about it?   I mean, I;m not discounting what a small group of empowered exploters can do if they;re at the helm....they;ve managed to appropriate as well...but that's nmot exactly relevant to -my- country and cultures history of cultural appropriation.

We like to pick on the little guys.  We raped and pillaged from a position of overwhelming force, legalism, and systemic institutional and societal oppression. None too fond of negros, but we'll take that negro rhythm..kthxbai.
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But still stand by what I said, I think if Christian rituals and emblems can be used in an untraditional sense then it has to be equal among all religions and cultural rituals.

I don't find the argument very compelling, myself.  Christian culture is dominant here...and they're the ones making christmas about malls and shit.  Similarly, I didn't find the argument earlier in thread that dreamcatchers hanging on redneck walls today were cultural appropriation very compelling.  The theives, if there ever were any, are dead.  It's -our- culture now, including the natives.  We're all americans, now.  Though..I suppose that might sound like a hollow platitude...if I we're staring down the barrel of continued inequality....and they are.