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Cultural appropriation is just the outcome of cultures mixing. It's been a part of cultural intermingling for at least the last thousand years, and probably sin
by debacle 11y ago
Cultural appropriation is just the outcome of cultures mixing. It's been a part of cultural intermingling for at least the last thousand years, and probably since forever.
The problem with modern cultural appropriation is anemic cultural identities coupled with one-directional appropriation. But that's only a problem for some cultures.
- djtriptych 11y agoYeah so let's limit the discussion to "modern" appropriation. Is it fair for any culture to complain about this? Isn't it drastically easier for people of more privileged cultures to assume identities of less privileged cultures? Is that directionality ok?
- debacle 11y agoI honestly think that in the Internet age no one should claim ownership of a particular cultural phenomenon. Cultural identity in the world is the weakest it has ever been, and as we homogenize our upbringings more and more through digital means, culture and ethnicity will matter less and less.
- djtriptych 11y agoThe Internet is 20 years old. Calm down lol. Also does humanity win when cultural tradition, cultural _information_ is lost forever? Are we sure we are capturing all that is useful? Is it really inevitable or could we _choose_ to assign more value to the preservation of extant culture?