Cultural Appropriation

bornabitch-allthedaysandnights:

surroundedbyhosts:

Maybe it’s just me but I honestly believe that the idea of “cultural appropriation” was invented by a bored social justice warrior who decided to make a big deal out of something that was the least of everyone’s worries…

Hate to break it to you honey but cultural appropriation is an anthropological concept supported by decades of research by social scientists and (because it has a big legal compontent) lawyers, not a tumblr thing.

And given that it causes “devastating and clearly wrongful harm” and “leave[s] members of a culture exposed to discrimination, poverty and lack of opportunity” (according to The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation edited by Young and Brunk), it’s not ‘the least of everyone’s worries. 

You not being offended doesn’t mean anything, it’s the effect/impact of appropriation that causes the harm, not the personal offense of the culture’s members:  It’s Not All About Feelings

You’re also completely ignoring how highly protective ACTUAL Hawaiians are fiercely protective about their indigenous culture and get VERY upset when it is appropriated. 

Nor do you understand how the basic concept of sharing works.  

When someone shares something with another person, they do so willingly, because they want to. Someone deciding on their own to use a tradition from another culture cannot accurately be described as ‘sharing’ because no one is willingly giving it to you, you are taking something that doesn’t belong to you without invitation or permission, which is called stealing. You cannot share something that is not yours to give in the first place.

What people against appropriation are advocating is that people do not use the traditions of marginalized groups unless they are invited, NOT that people from different cultural groups should never interact. 

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Not to be a contrarian prairiean but even indigenous people who didn’t have technologies/structures which surpassed european standards at contact and impress by modern day standards still deserve respect. My ancestors were impressive in that they lived with a positive impact on the land, even though they didn’t build permanent houses or anything like that. I refuse to be judged by eurocentric ideals of inventiveness and accomplishment.

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