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I think the concept of cultural appropriation is a good one but it needs to be limited and not just slapped on all cross-pollination of ideas. Things that seem
by ponker 6y ago
I think the concept of cultural appropriation is a good one but it needs to be limited and not just slapped on all cross-pollination of ideas. Things that seem like cultural appropriation to me: Using a culture's content to make fun of or denigrate that culture, using a culture to make money in a way that reduces the money they make from it (e.g. factory-made "dream catchers" driving the market price of them down and eliminating a Native American handicrafts business), or using a culture in a way that makes that culture seem worse (e.g. the expectation that eating Mexican food will give you gastrointestinal problems, which is caused by Americans making poor quality Mexican food with bad ingredients, which makes people skeptical of all Mexican food including that which is healthy and properly made).
- Nasrudith 6y agoThere are some caveats to using the cultures contents to denigrate it - crass as it sounds what if they actually really deserve it? Not to be applied as rationalization but highlighting very real failings and history. Impolite certainly but that doesn't make criticism less true or justified. Say for a few examples, Koreans would be more than justified in portraying Samurai as bloodthirsty hypocritical psychopaths given that well, they were that on their soil. Or less extreme portrayals of the infamous failures of the mandarins and how their misplaced emphasises brought ruin.