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I think what most comments in this thread (and the protesters) oversee is that "cultural appropriation" usually happens in a setting of oppression. The most com
by a_bonobo 11y ago
I think what most comments in this thread (and the protesters) oversee is that "cultural appropriation" usually happens in a setting of oppression. The most common example is white Americans taking from black or native Americans. The exchange isn't "open culture" as other comments express, it's too one-sided, like Stockholm Syndrome. The hostage can only give.
You can see how some members of the "taken from" group take this in a bad light, they've already had so much taken from them, and now to top it off there's somebody who takes and ingests what made the "taken from" group unique in the first place. It's not a far step from there to have people in the "taken by" group try to make that stop, and in some cases these people go way too far.
In OP's link this doesn't happen - Americans and the Japanese really don't have much history of oppression (except for WW2 internment), so I'd say it "doesn't count" as cultural appropriation.
Edit: I should say that there's not much history of systematic oppression between Japanese and Americans, that would exclude your day-to-day racism
- chroma 11y ago> Americans and the Japanese really don't have much history of oppression (except for WW2 internment), so I'd say it "doesn't count" as cultural appropriation. Yes, except for that time when the US forced Japan into treaties at gunpoint.[1] And that time when they put everyone of Japanese ancestry into prison camps. And the time they firebombed Japanese cities. And the time they nuked Japan twice. And the time they occupied Japan and executed civilian politicians.[2] Except for those things, there's not much history of oppression. I apologize for the snark, but your comment is completely disconnected from reality. Cries of "appropriation" are only tenuously correlated with oppression. For example: the French never oppressed the Maori, but people got angry when a French ad used their facial tattoos.[3] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Expedition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Expedition 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dki_Hirota https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dki_Hirota 3. http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/fashion/44467 http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/fashion/44467