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:
Right on. Don’t be humble
How can the U.N. make anything a crime as they are not a legislative body. Obama given his speeches may think otherwise but they were intended to be only a concillitory body. The UN. must be shut or move far from our sight and shores now.
I think is pure non sense. I agree with Margaret Westphal who wrote “This organisation is one of the causes of mass invasions of countries by illegal aliens with help from the EU it is forcing countries and people to do their bidding . In my humble opinion all countries should withdraw from the UN and the EU these organisations have their own agendas. They are playing with people’s lives and futures .”
The UN seems to do very little these days. They should be asked to relocate to some other country. We, the USA, have enough on our plate without hosting it here. We as a country already pay an enormous amount of money just being members..
DEFUND THE U.N. and get it ot of the USA!’
You are exactly right. In addition, how do you know a persons nationality or cultural ties by looking at them? I am a mix of many nationalities. What percentage of my blood has to be Mexican before I can sell burritos? 20%, 50% 5 %? Also, who gets to decide?
Lenny Wilkinson … right on Lenny … it’s tyrannical insanity!
Are we in a world government already? Since when can the UN dictate to the USA? With the countries calling the shots it might be a good idea to leave such an organization. I haven’t seen any improvements in the worlds tensions since it was founded. Many UN peace keepers (?) have actually been accused of rape, murder, etc.
They must be run by nothing but liberals
The UN is a terrorist affiliation of tyrannical governments pursuing the complete takeover of all free peoples of the world. The leaderships are criminal elements doing the bidding of even greater evil elements. Dislodge the USA from this rogue group and disavow its existence.
Pull out now!!! We don’t need policing by these SJW’s