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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