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What is Cultural Appropriation?
When a person takes something with cultural significance from another culture for their own, but doesn't respect or understand the cultural significance the something has. Instead they only claim to 'like' the culture because of what they can gain from it.
Eg:
White kid 1: Ugh, Indians have such stupid customs and shit.
White kid 2: Yeah OMG!
Later
White kid 1: OMG Bindis are so cool! I love Indians! I'm all for Hindu or whateverr
Indian kid: wtf cultural appropriation much.
Cultural Appropriation - video
Cultural Appropriation - what is it?
Something that white people came up with because they have nothing better to complain about even though minorities like myself literally couldnt care less
Person: (wears something related to another culture)
White social justice warrior: OMG CULTURAL APPROPRIATION
Person from that culture: Oh thatβs nice I like to see other people trying things from my culture in order to break the divide between our cultures
What does "Cultural Appropriation" mean?
Cultural Appropriation is the adaptation of customs, practices, ideas, etc. of one people or society to another's in their own view or version.
This is a one of the phrase's no popular dictionary's will give an accurate definition on anymore in fear of being canceled and will often be changed every few months depending on the trend.
This word is a combination of appropriation, which is to set aside for one's own use or adaptation, and culture.
Cultural appropriation is a way for people around the world to create new versions of things we love such as new music, movies or clothing's.
This phrase is often used in place of Cultural Appreciation when individuals wanted to cancel others or divide society for their own agendas since , without knowledge of the real definition, cultural appropriation sounds more offensive than cultural appreciation. "How dare you appreciate my culture!" does not sound offensive and most people will enjoy, encourage, and feel loved by others appreciation their culture.
This is one of the words people like to add "often to a minority by a majority" to fit the trends of modern society.
Korean's display much Cultural Appropriation by using much of western's society's culture of media, clothing, tv series into their own adaptation to create K-pop, Karama's, etc and share it with the world. In return the world is very happy.
Cultural Appropriation - what does it mean?
Cultural appropriation does NOT mean white people cannot enjoy any culture outside of their own.
It does NOT mean that people are not allowed to wear certain articles of clothing or participate in ceremonies that come from other cultures. The biggest difference between cultural appropriation and its opposite cultural APPRECIATION is whether or not there is respect and understanding of the culture you are adopting from. Cultural appropriation is when cultural symbols are watered down from their original meaning to the point where there is no longer any respect for the symbol it comes from.
This is NOT an attack on white people. It is not some "SJW" term created to punish white people. It's something that is defined by ignorance and a lack of respect. Interestingly enough, because of the existence of ignorance and a lack of respect of other cultural symbols there has been some desire to ignore the problem that cultural appropriation creates. This can all be solved with the understanding that, for example, wearing a bindi does not automatically mean cultural appropriation so long as you know what a bindi is, why it exists and Indian culture, and what it represents when you are wearing it.
There is a huge difference between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation, and rather than immediately assuming every cultural mixture is one or the other, it's best to be critical and see if the situation provides respect and honor to the culture in question.
Josefina: I'm not saying that ANY white guy wearing a shirt with Mayan weaving patterns is cultural appropriation, I'm saying that the weaving design you're wearing is traditionally worn by women during a specific ceremony.
Josh: So I'm a bad guy because I didn't know that? Now I'm just some racist white guy?
Josefina: No, I don't blame you for not knowing, and I never called you racist. I blame Urban Outfitters for copying a design without permission and selling it to you on the false pretenses that it's "authentic" without even using the right design for a young male to wear. Where's the cultural identity? Where's the respect? Urban Outfitters doesn't care about the fact Mayans who receive little money selling their handwoven works, but they will copy their designs for a T-Shirt that will give them endless profit.
Solange: Yeah, this is just like that white guy that went to India to throw a giant wedding party. What a jackass!
Josefina: Actually, he went to India because he appreciated the culture and wanted to experience one of their most sacred ceremonies. Many Indians were involved and it turned out to be a great experience for him. THAT'S not cultural appropriation. Some people take activism to the extreme and apply cultural appropriation to EVERYTHING, which isn't the point. That is just as bad as the people who don't believe that cultural appropriation exists.
Cultural Appropriation - meaning
Saying this will make your dick shrink by 16 football yards, and micheal myers will bust down your door and fucking kill you. Then your corpse will be cooked medium rare, and fed to dogs.
Jim (wears a sombrero) Fucking retard : YOU FUCKING RACIST THIS IS LITERALLY CULTURAL APPROPRIATION SKSKSKSKKSKSKK
Cultural Appropriation - definition
The ridiculous notion that being of a different culture or race (especially white) means that you are not allowed to adopt things from other cultures. This does nothing but support segregation and hinder progress in the world. All it serves to do is to promote segregation and racism.
"That plain ass white bitch is wearing a bindi! That's classic Cultural Appropriation!"
"Doesn't Osaka in Japan have a bastardized Americanized city? Isn't that Cultural Appropriation?"
"Cultural Appropriation only applies to white people, so that doesn't count."
Cultural Appropriation - slang
It is a Social Justice Warrior movement that is essentially segregation and extremely racist. SJWs claim that groups of people "own" their cultures and nobody is allowed to use it except for that race.
SJW: I am helping the world by enforcing the laws of cultural appropriation!
Normal person: *Proceeds to beat the absolute shit out of this potato*
Cultural Appropriation
Cultural Appropriation is the act of believing that wearing an Asian inspired dress and putting a lampshade on your head while saying 'Ching chong willy wong' are as racist as each other.
Idiot 1: Yo I just cancelled someone for Cultural Appropriation.
Idiot 2: Yo why.
Idiot 1: They wore a dress with an Asian pattern.
Idiot 2: Wow, so inspirational. You are saving the world from all this racism.
Cultural Appropriation
When a different culture adopts cultural traditions of another culture.
This's a very common process in diverse locations and open-minded people, in which multiple cultures accept and adopt others' traditions.
This's rarely a bad thing - examples of when "cultural appropriation" is when the Nazis adopted the Swastika (ε) from Indian religions and therefore gave it a bad name.
Barbaric philosophy of SJWs conclude that cultural appropriation is a grave sin. This SJW philosophy has very common traits with racial segregation, apartheid, racism, and likewise. Although SJWs believe that they're politically correct, this racist barbaric philosophy can easily be categorized under hate speech, discrimination, or racism, or in the support of thereof.
Cultural Appropriation is a very common result of diversity!
Cultural Appropriation
Something that both SJWs and far right white supremacists unanimously agree on.
SJW: "Oh my god, that white person is making a CURRY?! That is cultural appropriation and so wrong!"
White Supremacist: "I agree with you, white people need to stick to their own culture and shun anything created by black or brown people"