I think cultural appropriation is a problem
But people often mistake it for something else.
Cultural appropriation is when you present something as with a meaning different to the original cultures significance. The most obvious example is the Swastika, which was once a harmless religious symbol of divinity in various Indian religions, but now just means racism and genocide to most of the world, after being appropriated by the Nazis.
However I'm not convinced this Lily Cole incident is technically cultural appropriation. It's just bad taste, and not respecting something that's very important to someone else.
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Thu 19 Aug 2021, 15:15,
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To what extent is it a problem?
Wouldn't life be complete shit if stories, music, art, science, literature, sport, political/spiritual/philosophical ideas, technology, skills, fashions, et-fucking-cetera were never appropriated?
The politics of Cultural Appropriation seems to be about maintaining cultural purity, which you must admit does sound a little bit Hitlery.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 19 Aug 2021, 15:43,
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I think there's a line between cultural appropriation and cross-culture inspiration
but it is admittedly blurry.
Also Brits are pretty irreverent about everything, so I don't know how it would end up with us on the receiving end, unless Cornish Pasties started being used as a symbol of scientology or something.
Actually when there was a sort of attempt to co-opt the "OK" hand gesture to mean "white power" that did feel like it was taking a part of my language. Dunno how genuine it was but it did feel like something was being taken.
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Thu 19 Aug 2021, 18:49,
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As I said, if Johnny Foreigner wants to dress up in sock suspenders and a bowler hat, wear some fake wonky teeth and stick the union flag up his bumhole,
or dress up as Britannia and piss on a Spitfire, or appropriate the image of Winston Churchill and use that to sell clubbed baby seal meat, I would not feel the smallest concern for the purity or integrity of my culture.
What does Cultural Appropriation theory have to say if cultural appropriation is a legitimate and traditional aspect of ones culture?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 19 Aug 2021, 22:01,
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...do you work for the British Museum?
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Fri 20 Aug 2021, 18:16,
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...do you work for the DUP?
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 20 Aug 2021, 21:09,
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