You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: The Confusion of Cultural Appropriation
Cultural appropriation is BS. Can pizza parlors only be run by Italians? Or has part of Italian culture become our culture? Cultures are meme pools, collections of ideas. People share ideas. Ideas spread and compete with each other. I see nothing wrong with adopting new ideas from other cultures if those ideas are better.
Say that you are an artist or a musician. You will naturally imitate other artists/musicians. It's only natural. Say that a native American decided to wear a suite and tie. Is that cultural appropriation? Can we even trace the origin of the suite and tie and say to whose culture it belongs? Does it matter? I don't think it does.
Agreed. I have an artist friend who uses aspects of what would be considered traditional Native American art in her work, because that form of art speaks to her and she has a great deal of appreciation and respect for it.