I've done light reading on cultural appropriation. The concept of collective intellectual property rights even came up. I'm pretty sceptical. Sounds a lot like

I've done light reading on cultural appropriation. The concept of collective intellectual property rights even came up. I'm pretty sceptical. Sounds a lot like "I've defined myself according to this unique-ish thing, but now you're making it not unique and thus invalidating my identity". I think an identity is a mutable, self-defined tool for being in society. If you say that your identity depends on something external, that is a lie, since you're implicitly saying that your self-definition is depended on something outside yourself. I think Stoics' discourse on the subject is very accessible. This is Epictetus in Enchiridion: > Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things. Death, for instance, is not terrible, else it would have appeared so to Socrates. But the terror consists in our notion of death that it is terrible. When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.