RE: Cultural Appropriation and Food
June 6, 2021 at 11:11 am
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2021 at 11:13 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Borrowing and being inspired is cultural exchange. Where it goes beyond cultural exchange and into appropriation is when the dominant portion of a society takes from the portion of society which they are actively and systematically oppressing.
Elvis borrowed. The society that shelled out for elvis but barred black artists from the venues and refused to allow those artists to seek redress for the theft of their ip appropriated. So, sure, we can sit here and talk about how musicians borrow riffs...but that's not cultural appropriation. We can talk about how absurd it would be for cultural exchange to have such a negative connotation, but, that's not cultural appropriation.
Elvis borrowed. The society that shelled out for elvis but barred black artists from the venues and refused to allow those artists to seek redress for the theft of their ip appropriated. So, sure, we can sit here and talk about how musicians borrow riffs...but that's not cultural appropriation. We can talk about how absurd it would be for cultural exchange to have such a negative connotation, but, that's not cultural appropriation.
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