Vicariously Offended

ElectricMachman

That's the crux. He's a Mexican stereotype, but at the time, it was rare to have a good guy who looked like that.

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Next item to discover on my list: why are Americans so upset about "black face".

That's because of minstrel shows. They were American comedy acts where actors would paint their faces black and act out racist stereotypes. The premise was "look at me! I'm a black person!" and then they'd do something stupid and everyone would laugh. Note that black people were slaves at the time. When slavery was (mostly) abolished after the civil war, the shows and makeup became symbols of racism.

It's kind of like how a swastika in a Buddhist temple is fine but a swastika tattoo on a white American isn't. The swastika doesn't have to be racist symbol, but there are few places you could display one without it being interpreted as a racist symbol.

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Whats your ICQ?

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You mean I cannot wear a sombrero while having sex? That's sad. But okay.

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Don't be silly, thongs have nothing to do with Australia, they were invented in the 19th Century by Frenchman Philippe Follope.

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It's a thin line between celebrating indigenous cultures and heritage and exploiting it. The Washington Redskins being something I feel everyone can clearly see was over that line, but wearing a sombrero is clearly nowhere near it.

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Sure seems like Flax and Queen HawlSera are the same person, telling a two part story with back to back posts like that. I must be reading into things though, cause it sure would be weird to care so much about this topic to use multiple accounts to try to prove your point about it.

insert Ricky Gervais cultural appropriation joke here

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There's a big difference between participation and appropriation, and the "anti-woke" hive mind goes out of it's way to conflate the two.

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Culture is meant to be shared, as long as you're not caricaturing or mocking the culture you're trying to portray, most people from said culture would be flattered.

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IMO it's appropriation if it's done disrespectfully or in an exploitative or profiteering way. Otherwise, it would just be cultural segregation. Imagine liberalism turned full apartheid.

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please stop getting offended on behalf of others

You, and the rest of the posters on here, completely misunderstand. I, a white guy, don't get offended "on behalf of others" - the fact that white people have to constantly reference other cultures because we sterilized and sacrificed our own for the sake of white supremacism and "westernism" so long ago is offensive, period.

Queen HawlSera

Point taken, reworded it

Queen HawlSera

I want a Green Hat that says "Make The Onion Satirical Again"

stebo

i mean why would anyone other than an incel use these parts of the internet (lemmy/reddit/4chan/...)

Diplomjodler

I've never heard about "cultural appropriation" outside of jokes making fun of it. And it's one of the right's favourite strawmen. Maybe it's time to let it go?

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I mean "fetish" in the pretentious and boring way.

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That was either Super Mario Odyssey or Paper Mario: Sticker Star (Mario can wear a sombrero in both). In Odyssey it's just a themed cosmetic that can be bought with coins. In Sticker Star, it's an attack.

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i remember it started with an 8

Carighan Maconar

Yeah context and intend make all the difference. Cultural appropriation is when you try to clad yourself in something that is a facsimile of another culture, usually for marketing or influence purposes, but you neither understand nor have any intend to understand the culture itself or the meaning behind the parts you use for your (usually financial) gain.