Vicariously Offended

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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.

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If it's difficult to know, people probably should be given the benefit of the doubt

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It’s also when someone takes from other cultures and then claim it as their own without acknowledging the origin. Like how Elvis covered songs from black artists and didn’t credited the original artists and now white people think they solely invented rock n roll.

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The counterexample to Mexicans and their Sombreros is Plains Indians and their War bonnet (those feather crowns they used to sell as "Indian kids costumes"), whenever cultural appropriation is mentioned this comes up, so I'd be rather surprised if you hadn't heard of it before.

Any spicy takes on that one, or have you really just never heard of it?

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The concept of cultural appropriation seems to be pretty useless in practice.

The cases I've encountered where it makes some bit of sense fit better under the concepts of racism or exploitation. The complaints about cultural appropriation online seem to more often attack innocent behaviour or someone genuinely appreciating another culture.

Drink tea, make tacos, wear a kimono, don't be an asshole

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negative and unrealistic stereotype

which would just be racism really

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now i want a t-shirt/tote-bag with that line.

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I was just joking. Imagine me having sex.

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I know you were joking, I just wanted to avoid to imagine anybody else having sex.