Cultural Appropriation

[Bad Chanel 239]

Straight people having an.al sex is cultural appropriation

[John Slayne 4,154]

1 hour ago, Supersonic said:

The "backlash" some white celeb receives for doing cultural appropriation is not nearly as bad as tons of children being punished or having their future possibly ruined for being themselves and minding their own business.

I totally agree with this but how is that Katy's fault? Shouldn't we blame racist society and media who put double standards on PoC instead of some random white person who chose to dress in some way?

[Panchecco 17,717]

54 minutes ago, donutellha said:

This way of dressing is NOT only offensive to the people (as an asian american myself) but is also another way of seeing white hollywood taking our culture and SELLING IT OFF AS A PRODUCT.

wow I never actually thought about that

[Yuuri 21,636]

There's a thin line between honouring a culture and just using it for your own gain. Like in "This Is How We Do" people aren't mainly mad about her having cornrows (mainly found in African-American women) but also on top of top she's fanning herself with a watermeleon (a black people stereotype), I get how she's trying to act cool but I think she crosses the line.

[Oriane 21,187]

This "cultural appropriation" is the new thing, it really pisses me off. Like only the people who "invented" something (music, fashion...) in the culture have the right to like it. And there's such a double-standard. White guys who like hip-hop get laughed at for trying to "appropriate black culture" but then they're going to complain if black girls struggle to become ballerinas ?

And another example : recently in OITNB, one of characters cries because a white girl plays a role in a musical that was originally by a black performer, and she says that white people stole black culture etc. But then when they want to do a black Hermione or a black James Bond they're all here for it ?

[AndyDWUW 3,971]

1 hour ago, holy scheisse said:

I think ur absolutely.ignorant and probably absolutely white for posting this 

Educate yourself 

 

1 hour ago, holy scheisse said:

No. They're just putting on cultural costumes and taking them off without dear of personally ever being punished  or living with the ramifications in society for dressing in such a way. It's a costume. It's a mockery 

 

1 hour ago, holy scheisse said:

 it's 2017 I can't understand how y'all haven't grasped this as a concept by now and it's also not my duty to educate every ignorant person

You are my favorite person rn 

[Sweet Olive 422]

We're becoming oversensitive

[PunkTheFunk 124,581]

2 hours ago, Red said:

Why people keep opening threads about cultural appropriation every week? It always turns into a mess and a WP storm

I think you just answered your own question

[Melech 9,900]

47 minutes ago, Supersonic said:

First: it's shouldn't be a privilige, it should be a right to wear the clothes you wanna wear and not experience death threats (unless you're wearing a t-shirt that specifically says "please threaten to kill me")

Second: It is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to not address all of this when you're fighting for somebody's right to be themselves. You can't fight for people of color to be respected without having to address racism and white supremacy. It's like... you can't fight for gay marriage without condemning homophobia. It's a conversation that is tiring and reptitive but it kinda has to be done.

Also, i'd like to make it very clear that not only white people are capabale of stealing, ridiculing and exploiting cultures.

Part of life is learning that just because somebody is disadvantaged in life, doesn't mean that they are automatically a good person.

But all this is not black and white thinking. Is that not cultural appropriation because it affects Ashkenazi Jews, because they are mostly White?

(That's Macklemore singing Thrift Shop btw) 

I just don't like the discussion when this discussions leaves so many out and only White people can be aggressor to PoC. There are so many layers and people just simplify everything. 

Whoopi Goldberg got a fake Jewish surname and claimed to be of Jewish ancestry but it didn't got any backlash.

 

 

[holy scheisse 22,332]

I'm baffled by the amount of white gay ignorant twinks on this site. But actually I'm not cause it's typical of the LGBTQ+ community . White privilege supercedes all potential empathy to imagine and honor the experience of other minorities I see. 

[Mary Jane Wayne 1,997]

Cultural appropriation is just another term popularized by sjws 

[Lnds500 194]

/rant mode on

Culture appropriation is an ugly term only politically correct liberals in America could come up with.

Suddenly being inspired by anime or JP culture is "wrong" - why exactly? Because we can't be inspired or pay an homage to another culture? Because getting to know and appreciate something/someone who is different than us is bad? GTFO.

Democracy, civil rights movements, art, theatre, cinema, poetry, physics, mathematics etc are global because they were appropriated at some point.

You live in a nation which consists of every different ethnicity on the planet, you are using a language which is an appropriation of Latin and by extension ancient Greek and you have "appropriated" your land from Native Americans. Stop overcompensating. 

Pull yourself together America. 

[holy scheisse 22,332]

40 minutes ago, AndyDWUW said:

 

 

You are my favorite person rn 

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2 hours ago, ashae said:

I see what you're getting at but it's not really the celebrities' fault for that stuff. In fact they could use that to help the people being punished. 

But did they?

[Chr 4,217]

2 hours ago, Easy said:

I just googled and it says "Cultural appropriation is the adoption or use of the elements of one culture by members of another culture.".

so is it a type of cultural appropriation that Gaga sang DWUW which clearly contains R&B elements because she isn't an African American woman? I can't speak for African American but if Gaga made a song with Chinese instruments or chord progressions I would actually be proud instead of feeling offended. 

For example, out of the very limited Japanese people I know, they like Avril's Hello Kitty instead of feeling offended.

Gaga made Americano is that considered Cultural Appropriation