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:
Almost the entire English language is a cultural appropriation; is that going to be outlawed too?
Lol !
Just stupid
Well most people in the world have to take pants off and go back to robes or what ever. Blacks can’t straighten their hair any longer and whites can’t wear corn rows which is OK with me.
How stupid can stupid get. Just when I think we have hot stupid bottom a whole new generation of stupidness appears.
How else do cultures make profits on their products if they do not sell them to tourists, especially if they are small poor countries? It is not only White folks who take advantage of other cultures practices and products. Besides this is how we learn about others and they learn about us. The UN must be abolished NOW,
The UN is a bad joke.
F**k the UN
NOT THEIR JOB!
DEFUND THE U.N. AND GET THEM OUT OF THE USA.
So, chefs will be forbidden to create any dish, which is not within their own ethnic, or cultural background? How insane have these nut jobs become! I like some foods, and dislike others. It doesn’t make me racist, or cultually appropriating anything. It means that I have the right to choose what I like, dislike, cook, or refuse to cook. Good grief!