the Cambridge Dictionary defines cultural appropriation as “the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, especially without showing that you understand or respect this culture.”
Cultural appropriation, at times also phrased cultural misappropriation,[2][3][4] is the adoption of elements of one culture by members of another culture. This can be controversial when members of a dominant culture appropriate from disadvantaged minority cultures.[5][2][3]
Cultural appropriation is often considered harmful, and to be a violation of the collective intellectual property rights of the originating, minority cultures, notably indigenous cultures and those living under colonial rule.[2][6][7] Often unavoidable when multiple cultures come together, cultural appropriation can include using other cultures' cultural and religious traditions, fashion, symbols, language, and music.[8][9][10]
According to critics of the practice, cultural appropriation differs from acculturation, assimilation, or cultural exchange in that this appropriation is a form of colonialism: cultural elements are copied from a minority culture by members of a dominant culture, and these elements are used outside of their original cultural context—sometimes even against the expressly stated wishes of members of the originating culture.[3][11][12][13][14][15][16]
Often, the original meaning of these cultural elements is lost or distorted, and such displays are often viewed as disrespectful, or even as a form of desecration, by members of the originating culture.[11][17][18][1] Cultural elements which may have deep meaning to the original culture may be reduced to "exotic" fashion or toys by those from the dominant culture.[11][12][19] Kjerstin Johnson has written that, when this is done, the imitator, "who does not experience that oppression is able to 'play', temporarily, an 'exotic' other, without experiencing any of the daily discriminations faced by other cultures."[19] The African-American academic, musician and journalist Greg Tate argues that appropriation and the "fetishising" of cultures, in fact, alienates those whose culture is being appropriated.[20]
Steve James wrote:I don't appropriate anything that I don't appreciate. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
So popular, that even Black people had to wear Blackface. So influential that it's featured in the first talking American film ("The Jazz Singer"). So, I tell my students that when they see someone wearing blackface, they should smile. He's not laughing at you. It's not denigration; it's admiration.
I tell my students that when they see someone wearing blackface, they should smile. He's not laughing at you. It's not denigration; it's admiration.
black face, like cultural appropriation, is a pose used as a weapon to make whites feel guilty
It does not cut both ways, cultural appropriation does not apply to anyone except whites, and whites are the only people foolish enough to actually believe it's real.
I didn't have to hate on anyone.
If you want me to say that people who identify something or some act as cultural appropriation are wrong, I can't. I was only discussing what it was, and why people shouldn't get upset about it.
I have no clue what your point is to me, and I don't even know if you know what you think cultural appropriation is and whether it's good or not.
“Blueprint” — and its theory about the evolutionary origins of virtue — became his balm. That’s clear in the book itself, which makes unmistakable allusions to the Yale ugliness. “I have seen the effects of overidentifying with one’s group and witnessed mass delusions up close,” he writes. He rues America’s intense polarization, which perhaps makes this “an odd time for me to advance the view that there is more that unites us than divides us.” But advance that view he does.
His reasoning, oversimplified, is this: Complex societies are possible and durable only when people are emotionally invested in, and help, one another; we’d be living in smaller units and more solitary fashions if we weren’t equipped for such collaboration; and human thriving within these societies guarantees future generations suited to them.
Cultural appropriation is all about hating on white people. It only goes one way and it is harmful.
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