Cringe - when you google “Velma”, a bunch of gay confetti and shit explodes onto the page
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What cultural appropriation actually looks like.
When they're literally celebrating taking it from you, It's beyond appropriation. It's conquest.
This cultural imperialism with a fucking victory parade.
I won't be surprised if they start building triumphal arches next.
Correct, it's not appropriation, it's conquest.
Cultural Imperialism isn't even the right word. Imperialism, frankly, doesn't really even fit. Imperialism isn't just conquest, it's about empire-building. Imperialism typically requires colonies to fuel the empire's core with growth, resources, and productivity: typically by building infrastructure where there already is none (or where infrastructure is differently oriented towards something else).
They are far more like Viking Raids. Coming into to an established system; raping, pillaging, plundering; and then if they like the haul: colonizing it and forcing it to be ruled under Dane Law. Not so that it forms a larger Danish Empire, but only such that it enriches the conquerors personally.