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:
This is truly F**E NEWS, a gross misconstruction or even LIE about WIPO does.
WIPO is essentially concerned with international PATENTS, not “cultural appropriation” unless it is about the wholesale theft of say, a herbal remedy, to produce a pharmacy patent. They aren’t going to tell you not to wear an ethnic designed sweater.
Don’t be so GULLIBLE! Look it up! Read for yourself! Consider what problem resulted in the creation of such a body, supported by nations around the world.
The UN can kiss my ass
Complete B******T!!! This is still a free country correct ? This c**p is out of control ! So sick and tired of the silly$#%&!@*liberal crybabies telling everyone what they can and cannot do ! The U.N. doesn’t decide what I can and cannot do… f*** off ! All these dumb asses sitting on their$#%&!@*contemplating the next thing they can$#%&!@*and moan about … go hide in your safe place if you can’t handle life in the real world !
UN get out of our country.
He did.
how can the United Nations make anything…. a criminal Offesnse….BS
The UN must NEVER be allowed to make laws for the US. Get them out of this country and cit funding!
Kiss our american$#%&!@*
Well look at how many people in the world would have to quit wearing blue jeans!!!!
They need to be dismantled!