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:
The UN doesn’t have the authority to do$#%&!@*!!!
Their offenses mean squat here in the U S. We have our own laws, si theycan shove it.
That is absolutely stupid. The Navajo Indians produce products of their culture to sell for a living. To ban people from wearing said products would put the Indians completly out of business because no sane person will buy something they aren’t allowed to wear.
Get out get them out or burn them out
U.N. needs to worry about those terrorist like Iran and other muslim nations in the U.N. ! But they better leave the U.S. alone we need to shut them down in U.S.A. send them packing and tell them To Dont Bother us !
Tell the U.N. to take a f*=k at a rolling donut. Quit paying them anything
If I make it, it’s my work, no matter what colors I use. If I buy it and decide to use/wear it, I paid for it They can suck eggs an p**s up a rope.
get a life
..preferably somewhere else..
US needs to leave this group of morons and kick them off our land