let's just bash a strawman, and by extension all things PC, because that's much easier and more fun than actually exploring the real damage to people and their way of life that can potentially be done by stupidly fucking with stuff that is very serious to them. — Baden
Oh dear, I hope you find a more appropriate place to put them — Baden
IMO, the whole concept that a culture "owns" some idea is rubbish. Do we Germans "own" our words? Did Americans, when they adopted German words like "kindergarten" or "zeitgeist" steal our property? Does not make sense to me. — Matias
Those are not mutually exclusive. You can be racist and economincally exploit also, without culturally appropriating. Slavery being an extreme example. A facet of the dynamic was taking cultural 'things' from a group without compensating them or acknowledging them for their creation.But in this case the problem is not cultural appropriation, but economic exploitation. The problem is not that Whites adopted the music style of the Blacks, but that Black people were considered to be an inferior race. — Matias
The central question remains: Do human groups own their culture? — Matias
Show me a clear example of cultural appropriation where someone “stole” from another culture please. — I like sushi
Show me a clear example of cultural appropriation where someone “stole” from another culture please. — I like sushi
If you steal something from me, you infringe on my possibility to use my property as I wish. — Matias
a bowl of Irish stew — Baden
Cultures subsist in a tension between the sacred and the taboo. That's the energy that holds them together. Threaten that dynamic and they can fall apart. — Baden
What most of us hear about the subject is college kids who demand that sushi be banned from campus menus, or that parties featuring Mexican sombreros are racist. — fishfry
So you both think this is about money? That is not what I understand as ‘cultural appropriation’. — I like sushi
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