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:
What ever happened to the old saying ‘ imitation is the sincerest form of flattery ‘ ?
US out ofUN and UN out of the US!!!
UN say what?! They want multiculturalism but not cultural appropriation? Japan would be fucked, they appropriated everything in their culture
Eating hummus or bagels, tacos
driving Japanese cars? Stay away from all cultures and especially, Jerusalem’s Kotel (Western Wall) or Christian’s Place of the Skull (Gordon’s Calvary) .
Stop funding the UN – it’s an organization whose ‘controlled and ran’ by Islamic State Nations, Dictatorship Nations, Totalitarian Nations, Communist Nations and those who DO NOT – I repeat – DO NOT represent a remotely reasonable example of Human Rights standards, civil rights standards, religious rights standards let alone protections for citizens FREEDOMS AND LIBERTIES! #DefundtheUN
Doesn’t mean anything here,holds no water.
UN does not make laws.
The UN has no legal standing in the USA !
Ignorant and counter productive!!! Natives sell products of their talent for income like anyone else. Such an idea would be for the purpose of isolating Natives and distorting a livelihood. No one seeks something that would harm them . This is f**e or someone else, ( NOT NATIVES) is behind it to harm Natives. But out UN, AMERICA IS SOVEREIGN!!!!
Good luck with that, bitches!!