Why is cultural appropriation considered a bad thing by some?

White people are evil.

Cultural appropriation is a meaningless made up term, invented as a means to seek out victimhood where none exists.

Largely it seems to be rooted in the idea that whitey is stealing other people's cultures, sometimes even profiting by it, as part of its domination and marginalization of others. It is stupid. Not surprisingly it isn't wrong for other people the world over to appropriate Western European culture.

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Largely it seems to be rooted in the idea that whitey is stealing other people's cultures, sometimes even profiting by it, as part of its domination and marginalization of others.

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That is largely correct.

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It is stupid. Not surprisingly it isn't wrong for other people the world over to appropriate Western European cu

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Western Europe and the West as a whole has been one of the most dominant influences in the world for hundreds of years, first by colonization and then capitalism.

So if you're asking why people in Sri Lanka and Kenya are wearing jeans and eating McDonalds it's mainly due to the large American presence and influence in these countries.

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Like if you wear Indian henna tattoos for fun

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In the vein of SJWisms, henna was appropriated from Egypt and the Mediterranean cultures of the Middle East by those evil people in India.

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if you wear a kimono or a Native American headdress to Coachella.

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Yeah, these people would be clueless about what is sacred in other cultures, but the average Coachella attendee couldn't locate Japan, or name a single Plains Indian tribe.

Bottom line is, there really isn't anything new under the sun Trace something back far enough, and there's overlap with another culture somewhere down the line. That's normal. Cultures don't exist in a vacuum, only able to be virtuously expressed by members of said culture. They exist to influence each other. They will continue to do so regardless of oversensitive PC types.

Where does shite like this end? Who gets to decide how much time must elapse before someone else is able to safely adopt aspects of a different culture? I'm not one to just scream and rage against PC-ness, but the very notion of this concept is ridiculously absurd.

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Cultural appropriation is a meaningless made up term, invented as a means to seek out victimhood where none exists.

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Exactly all of this

I don't think minorities should be able to drive cars or fly in airplanes since White people invented them. They are stealing our culture.

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While some of it is overblown (like idk if you're white and you wear dreads or braids) some people have don't like the fact that people are trivializing some of the most sacred aspects of their cultures.

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They need to grow the frick up.

People will always find something to bitch about, no matter how trivial.