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I think the biggest issue is that people don’t want others misrepresenting their culture.
I think that's almost entirely a manufactured issue. Most people don't naturally feel defensive and proprietary about their culture unless they are taught to feel that way by someone who has been exposed to post modernist, postcolonial dogma. Certainly very few people in Japan, which is mostly free of this sort of academic rot, look negatively on non-Japanese who wear kimonos or Hello Kitty gear. And while I have heard of Asian Americans and Canadians making a fuss over appropriation, I can't think of any instance where actual Asians have done so.
In every group, there are people who have ridiculous, extreme views. Yes, there are people who believe that white people eating tacos is cultural appropriation and therefore inappropriate. Those people are also quite few in number.
The problem is that people with a somewhat racist and nationalist agenda seize upon these statements like candy. That way, they can paint anybody working for social justice, and liberals in general, as extreme. Others buy it, and they move closer towards the unseemly racist and nationalist agenda that the agitators who post things like this want.
Please don't fall for it. You can call out extreme liberal positions while maintaining a heart for social justice.
In every group, there are people who have ridiculous, extreme views. Yes, there are people who believe that white people eating tacos is cultural appropriation and therefore inappropriate. Those people are also quite few in number.
The problem is that people with a somewhat racist and nationalist agenda seize upon these statements like candy. That way, they can paint anybody working for social justice, and liberals in general, as extreme. Others buy it, and they move closer towards the unseemly racist and nationalist agenda that the agitators who post things like this want.
Please don't fall for it. You can call out extreme liberal positions while maintaining a heart for social justice.
If only what you're saying were true.
Meanwhile here in America, the RACIST SJW's have managed to pass AA laws that discriminate against white people.
DO NOT TRUST THEM. They are out for themselves, not America.
Part of the problem -- we just have way too many forums or places or whatever where we can say what we want.
It makes it 'seem' like folks are more offended.
I suspect human nature hasn't changed that much over the centuries.
I suspect that folks were always upset about something silly and it just didn't go viral.
Ironically it seems that the conservatives on these boards are easily triggered, outraged by things yet accuse liberals of being outraged or triggered.
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Part of the problem -- we just have way too many forums or places or whatever where we can say what we want.
It makes it 'seem' like folks are more offended.
I suspect human nature hasn't changed that much over the centuries.
I suspect that folks were always upset about something silly and it just didn't go viral.
I have read that until the 1950s, in America at least, most people were chiefly concerned with simply staying alive. The rise of social welfare states and changes in the economy allowed for people to step back and enjoy more leisure time. It is probably no accident that seeing a shrink started to become acceptable around then and that gave way to people finding themselves via drugs, TM, Yoga, health food, gurus, Scientology, communes, Janov, cults, etc. And endless array, both good and bad, of things by which one could improve thyself. We finally had the time.
Fast forward to the 21st century with computers everywhere and here we are.
I find the whole idea of cultural appropriation idiotic and ignorant.
Cultures have borrowed influences from other cultures since the dawn of time, and no countries are 'pure'. One can even claim that agriculture and bronze working was cultural appropriation. And most times cultural influences weren't deliberately spread by any decree, they just spread.
Our alphabet, our Arabic numerals, Christianity, the idea of democracy and constitution, even the colours of the American flag are examples of cultural loans and appropriation. The English language is filled with Latin and French loan words, the months are named after Roman gods and emperors. Then music, art, literature, architecture, cuisine... pretty much everything are forms of cultural appropriation.
Those who are upset about cultural appropriation have probably never even opened a book.
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