Cultural appropriation is the admiration or use of indigenous cultural practices of minorities by white people. Or is it?
Indigenous activists state people need to more clearly define the line between appreciating and appropriating another culture’s heritage.
Here is an example. Appreciating another culture would be a white person buying a sweater made by a Navajo artist. Appropriating the Navajo culture would be wearing that prior mentioned sweater. You see the difference? It’s important to start being able to make that distinction as indigenous activists are on the warpath. Because these activists are not just asking the UN to disavow cultural appropriation, they want to implement international laws and measures that will take all of this PC hysteria to a completely new level.
Will it soon be illegal for kids to learn to play the 12 bar blues? Will the parents be criminally prosecuted as is now the case in the U.S. if kids get caught sexting? What if a person unknowingly knits a sweater using colors associated with a certain Native American tribe? How do these indigenous activists propose courts differentiate accidental associations with deliberate appropriation? All on the next page:
Who cares what the UN does. They do not control the USA.
Who cares what the UN says. They don’t run our country.
F**k off
Americans DONT CARE what laws the UN Considers . Our constitution rules here not the UN.
THIS IS SO STUPID ,,, I CAN’T BELEAVE SOMEONE CAN COME UP WITH THIS ,,,THE U.N. BETTER STOP DOING STUPID THINGS
We need to get out of the UN immediately. They have gotten so they think they have a right to tell every nation how to think and act. I understand it is supposed to be a watch guard and helper, that us why it was created. It was never meant to rule it control. It looks like it needs to be dissolved before it dies something really stupid.
What those idiots call cultural appropriation is what my grandma called the highest form of flattery . All people copy something they like no matter where it came from that is how we flatter another and many times take the original and make it better. Grow up UN and smell the coffee!
UN is interfered to much.
UN is criminal
Time to pull out of this good idea gone bad.