Cultural Appropriation is basically a spectrum of how disrespectful you are acting. In the case of the prom dress, yes she was appropriating Asian culture but I personally thought it was a non-issue but I also don't speak for all people of Asian decent. If she had put chopsticks in her hair and put on stereotypical slant eye makeup then I would say she crossed the line.
I think this Jeremy Lam kid needs to stop appropriating English culture by using their language. It's just insensitive and annoying. /Thread.
Myself, personally, I don't have any appropriations of culture, other than Mexico, 'cause that ****'s great and everyone loves tacos.
I don't think you understand what cultural appropriation is and why it's annoying to some and offensive to others (which is stupid to be offended by). Think of it this way. If a Russia decides to wear American jeans and say "Yee Haw" people would think that was cute. Technically that is cultural appropriation but it's no big deal right? So why are other people so up in arms? Because people miss the entire point. It's not that people dress up in some cultural's cloths or wear it as a fashion statement that is annoying. It's the stripping away everything about it culturally and turning it into a fashion. Take the color run and holi. Holi is a fun holiday with loads of colors that people toss around. What the folks at the Color Run did was strip away all the religious and cultural elements and just take the powered colors and make this 5k run where you toss colors on people like you would during Holi. What's sad that they don't even speak to the origins or meaning - they just use it to make a quick buck off of people with a gimmick. Imagine a Muslim making money off of Christians by selling verses of the Bible on little cards. The guy might say, I don't care about Christianity, but there are some good quotes that I can use to make money off of people. There's something disrespectful about that
We're all friends here, whatever book you want to read is cool. Stop making problems where problems do not exist.
By this standard almost every major holiday/celebration in America would be somewhere in realm of cultural appropriation. Anyhow, it seems to be used by people who are always seeming to try to go out of their way to find a problem with something, as if it is some sort of activism, and then very loudly announce their offense in a morally superior fashion. https://www.bustle.com/p/7-things-you-might-not-realize-are-cultural-appropriation-that-are-60679
I think the "cultural appropriation" critique is an outgrowth of people being deeply invested in the idea that their culture is special and unique. If someone outside their group is using or adapting a thing that is distinctive to their culture, they then feel that it is no longer something that they can claim belongs to them and that somehow diminishes the uniqueness of their culture. So, how seriously we take this issue really comes down to how important we consider cultural identity to be.
Let's say that we accepted the idea that it was a wrong thing to do and shouldn't be done. It is very confusing. There are shops run by Chinese people who sell traditional Chinese apparel to folks that aren't Chinese. How does that work?
You can't wear it to a prom. You must learn about Chinese culture and wear it in the ways Chinese wear it (which I'm not sure what those are).
in two days we have cinco de cuatro coming up. How do you guys feel about whiteys wearing sombreros. and mexicans reacting like yo, I don't even know what cinco de cuatro is, we don't celebrate that!
Hey, if it wasn't for us gringos you'd all be speaking French now. Have you ever had any Sotol? A buddy of mine has opened up a distillery, I think it's delicious.
That's a very anglo view of something: take what you like from a culture and adopt it as your own, but then put down the original culture as worthless. This is what is annoying.
Which holiday in America is entirely washed of its religious or cultural context? Christmas, Easter, ThxGiving, Memorial Day - ever single national holiday still has cultural context that ties back to American history or Christianity. Tell me how that compares to the Color Run?
