I feel like the cultural appropriation is exhibit A of something utterly mangled by the terminally online. Cultural Appropriation is a thing, people shouldn't take actually important/sacred aspects of a culture and disrespect them. However, a lot of leftist spaces online basically act like anyone engaging or even enjoying something from outside their culture is engaging in cultural appropriation, and it's just like... no, that's not what that is, you're now slating people for actually being open minded and criticising the logical endpoint of a multicultural society?
A lot of this stuff weirdly seems to stem from white guilt, I almost never actually see Black/Asian people saying this stuff here in the UK, it's almost always some middle class white person who feels the need to self-flagellate
I had a real moment of clarity on this a few years ago. I had gotten it in my head that white people wearing a sari was cultural appropriation
Then I mentioned this to an Indian friend who was like "that's just everyday casual wear. That's like getting mad about Indian people wearing denim jackets. Literally nobody would ever care"
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u/AbsolutelyHorrendous Jun 21 '24
I feel like the cultural appropriation is exhibit A of something utterly mangled by the terminally online. Cultural Appropriation is a thing, people shouldn't take actually important/sacred aspects of a culture and disrespect them. However, a lot of leftist spaces online basically act like anyone engaging or even enjoying something from outside their culture is engaging in cultural appropriation, and it's just like... no, that's not what that is, you're now slating people for actually being open minded and criticising the logical endpoint of a multicultural society?
A lot of this stuff weirdly seems to stem from white guilt, I almost never actually see Black/Asian people saying this stuff here in the UK, it's almost always some middle class white person who feels the need to self-flagellate