What's the rationale behind cultural appropriation?
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"Nothing in there but trouble, boy!"
--Christian Slater, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Last week I was partaking in the ancient game of "Go". I hope no Chinese reaapropiate my board because it took awhile to get my white buddy into the game.
When I play "Go" online I like to listen to lucinda williams, don't tell any Americans. Pretty please?
I think I'll disrupt the next lacrosse game I see, in the name of an Indian nation I'm not a member of.
This is a funny little country we live in. "You MUST embrace multiculturalism". Yeah, but if you embrace it a little too much, you're accused of cultural appropriation.
Ultimately, if you listen to the whiners, you are to a considerable extent responsible for your own unhappiness.
Now, if you'll pardon me, I have to go demand that the symphony fire anybody who's not of German, Austrian, French, Italian, or Russian ancestry.
But what do we do about Yo-yo Ma? He's American, his ancestry is Chinese, and he was born in Paris. Does that mean he gets to play Chinese, European, and American music and instruments, or that he can't play any of them?
While my white sheets are drying, I'd like to propose a solution.
The white folks can appropriate whatever they want, but it will be necessary to handle evidence of the, ahem, "appropriation" properly, and witnesses have to "go away". No point having a bunch of unappreciative non-whites ruining my day. And who wants to listen to their whining?
The mob were always recycling. Burying stuff in the ground or throwing things in the ocean.
Paraphrasing that famous white Georgia boy, Bubba Ferguson, speaking about jumbo bags of potato chips and cola, "I have been to the Walmart. I may not get there with you, but there's plenty to go around. Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, They're free at last!"
The white folks can appropriate whatever they want, but it will be necessary to handle evidence of the, ahem, "appropriation" properly, and witnesses have to "go away". No point having a bunch of unappreciative non-whites ruining my day. And who wants to listen to their whining?
The mob were always recycling. Burying stuff in the ground or throwing things in the ocean.
Paraphrasing that famous white Georgia boy, Bubba Ferguson, speaking about jumbo bags of potato chips and cola, "I have been to the Walmart. I may not get there with you, but there's plenty to go around. Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, They're free at last!"
No, if I listen to the whiners, all I hear are a bunch of mental midgets who have zero clue about human history.
Sounds pretty complicated to me. Maybe take yourself less serious and have a nice chef salad. with some chickin strips on the side as there are many who are critically ill hangin on for dear life.
Which begs the question: having determined this, why are you still listening to them?
You must have heard the segment on cultural appropriation on CBC RadioOne yesterday.
Paraphrasing what the Injun stated on the radio interview (Cliffy take note); "You can learn about, write about, eat foods, enjoy the music, dress, the arts or participate in the cultures of others by living within their communities but please don't speak on our behalf."
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It's part of human culture to take, steal, borrow anything they see that they like.
so if a human is culturally appropriating something from another culture, that culture better make sure they in fact invented it and didn't steal it from somewhere else.
I choose to view it as appreciation ( done respectively) and not appropriation ( done to make fun of a culture).
so if a human is culturally appropriating something from another culture, that culture better make sure they in fact invented it and didn't steal it from somewhere else.
I choose to view it as appreciation ( done respectively) and not appropriation ( done to make fun of a culture).
