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:
Slippery slope here….we expect but should actually demand immigrants adopt our culture fully, but this could be interpreted that immigrants could be punished….for assimilation. Dangerous.
Another misguided act by the clueless
they have no authority.
C**p like this is why the UN needs to be out of the USA and the USA out of the UN
So a native American drives a car. Cultural appropriation. An African flies in a plane. Cultural appropriation. Any use of modern or civilized objects, ie toilets, tv’s, radios, firearms, busses, all cultural appropriation. Since western civilization has invented and or discovered most of the useful objects used daily it would be supposed that indigenous or non western people should not use them. Chinese excepted. They were ahead of the West in many areas.
Get the u n out
Stupid is as stupid does!
What’s that idiot in Florida gonna do with all her Cowboy Hats.
Isn’t wanting to be like someone else the highest complement to the person or culture they want to emulate? What’s wrong with that?
I BELONG TO A GUN CULTURE. AND I THINK THE GUN CULTURE NEEDS TO BLOW A U.N. PAPER TIGER WISH IS ONLY A ABSTRACT GROUP CLEAN OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH. WE ARE A REAL CULTURE AND MANY. ON THE OTHER HAND THE U.N. EXISTS ONLY BY LIVING OFF OF AMERICAN TAXPAYERS MONEY. !!!! AN ABSTRACT ENTITY ONLY EXISTS IN PEOPLE’S MINDS NO REAL POWER.!!!!!