I thought I'd ask about everyone's thoughts on this insane issue. Get a variety of perspectives and such.
As well as links to balanced, decent articles on the issue that don't just mindlessly say "whitey bad because they enjoy stuff from other cultures". It seems difficult to find articles or videos and whatnot that look at the subject from a neutral, balanced viewpoint. At best, I find a flood of stupid articles attacking white people and / or pushing the Neo-Liberal narrative about it.
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the entire history of the human race is cultures learning and adapting things from other cultures.
Like everything else the modern left pushes, the concept of cultural appropriation s designed to put a stranglehold on western civilization, especially when they don't seem to care about when others culturally appropriate from us.
It's meaningless when everything we already have is the result of cultural appropriation. This goes for minorities as well, so it's not even a white thing.
Plus if people mix (muh diversity is our strength), culture, food, music, etc. will mix as well and you do not have to explain yourself to anyone.
I used to date a Chilean dude. I was at his place and his mother made us food. Was I supposed to ignore the meal she made to eat toast instead because I'm white? Hell, I helped her cook sometimes. Was I supposed to tell her to fuck off because I'm white? They made me feel welcome and it was a very good experience, it felt like home. (The guy's stepdad is also white, he is this blond Swedish dude lol.)
Lets say we stayed together with the guy and had kids. Are they supposed to eat my white food or his Chilean food? Half and half? Would I have to leave my own kitchen when he cooked? Would I have to tell my own kids I refuse to make the food grandma made because I have no right?
People are complicated and everything you can imagine happens. This includes people with 4 grandparents who are all from different cultures. People in interracial relationships or even people adopted/raised in different cultures. When those mixings happen you get people who look different from what you would expect.
This is the same as with the whole "own voice" trend in writing, when you are only allowed to write people like yourself (race, culture, religion, sexuality, gender, mental health state, etc.). It's retarded and evil to demand people to tell you about their private life so you decide if they are allowed to do something or not. It's private, it's their business.
It's Horseshit.
Cultural Appropriation exists for Authoritarians to balkanize groups of people into political power-blocks, and to set them against each other as needed. That is why "cultural appropriation" is so popular among racialists. It allows a group of Racialist Intellectuals to assert their definition, conditions, culture, heritage, and history of a race, and then set boundary conditions on others.
Cultural Exchange happens in all forms. It happens through interaction between peoples, it happens through trade, it happens through communication, migration, interbreeding, and especially warfare.
No one really talks about it, but I can tell you right now that after having so many middle eastern wars in the past few decades, it is obvious to me to see the influence of military culture on the domestic population, and influence of middle eastern cultural items on the west, due to the cultural exchange of war. One of the most important utilities that we have adopted from our recent wars is the Shemagh, which is just a light piece of cloth worn around the neck/face/head that can do multiple things in inclement weather.
All cultural appropriation does is allow the Racialist Intellectual Elite to claim ownership on all items that they assert racial territory on, while dividing the population into easily controllable segments.
That's why progressives love it. Racialism has always been a Progressive Intellectual pursuit.
Erm, bandanas have been a thing in the West for a long time, but usually associated with western North America, in the days before the car. Just watch any old black and white horse opera, especially the original Lone Ranger serials, lots of bandanas there.
But masking the face had become synonymous with "bad guys/bank robbers", so the bandana kind of got demonized the same way the (equally useful, but for cold weather) balaclava and the hoodie did ... and mostly relegated to dogs, the same way out of date satire gets relegated to kids.
Yeah, it was just common sense amongst my older relatives and elderly church people I was raised around - many of whom had grown up during the Great Depression or the Dust Bowl era. Bandanas were functional, not a fashion statement.
You're missing the point here. I'm saying I'm seeing people with Shemaghs explicitly. Not Bandanas. The clothing was introduced to the west as a result of the wars.
It doesn't exist as a thing, and anyone who says it does is a heretic who should be burned.
It’s idiotic. As mentioned before cultures adapting things from others is as old as time.
Cultural appropriation can happen, but is almost exclusively in the kind of colonial domination the western world has been free of for a while now.
What SocJus see as appropriation is utter bullshit.
If cultural appropriation existed. White girls doing Yoga would be the worst offenders.
The simple fact is that cultural appropriation is the resentment of mixed race people and 2nd or 3rd generation immigrants in a western country. It does not reflect on the actual experience of a person, but on the perception of what experience is correct [sic] for a person.
It's segregation. It's a proxy to overtly be racist, because of an inability to culturally assimilate or a disassociation from one's family. And it becomes more extreme as diversity increases, because the lack of a singular culture to assimilate into and larger enclaves of foreign cultures creates more intercultural conflict.
Haters. Anyone that carries on about this stuff is just a hater, no exceptions. Like if you really believed in sacred Buffalos or bird spirits and shit to the extent you’re mad some white girl has a plastic headdress on wtf are you doing at fucking Coachella in the first place
nearly all black culture is stolen from white people.
fuckers should go back to wearing animal skins and loincloths instead of appropriating european dress styles.