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In an increasingly globalised world, the boundaries between cultures will blur. Cultural appropriation, to me, the impression that the wider world takes someth
by zaarn 8y ago
In an increasingly globalised world, the boundaries between cultures will blur.
Cultural appropriation, to me, the impression that the wider world takes something from them, their customs, appearance or whatever else.
I think the more accurate description would be that the wider world simply mixes their own customs with others, integrating the new ones, adopting or changing them.
There are plenty of examples where a culture adopts and integrates something from a minority culture (Döner Kebap in Germany for example) and I don't think it's ultimately harmful.
Ultimately, I would also agree that it's somewhat of a familiar concept to nationalism but with race or culture (though racism and nationalism have rather different meanings so I can't reuse racism in the same context I guess, cultural-nationalism maybe?) and maybe even other human concepts (I can totally imagine at some point people will yell about cultural appropriation from Tumblr or Twitter communities :) )