"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness." Cultures have appropriated each other since the dawn of humanity. I underst

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness." Cultures have appropriated each other since the dawn of humanity. I understand how some can feel irritated that "their" concepts, whatever they are, have been "stolen" and stripped of their essence by others, but what's the alternative? It's not like the other cultures are forcing the originators to change theirs (or, they might, but that's not cultural appropriation) so it kind of feels like the same fallacy as claiming something was stolen from you if someone made a copy of something you own. Your culture is your own, no one else can debase that, only your own feelings can. It's the Stoic saying of "it is not outside events that affect us, but our opinions about them."