Some were even going as far to call sushi with cooked fish "cultural appropriation"
Also cancel your toga party & karate class,take down that Bob Marley poster and cancel your yoga lesson. On account of the "cultural appropriation" crowd being offended
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Oh Peach you already know my answer to this.
To use another people's culture is only wrong when you are using it while making fun of them or insulting them or mocking them, or something like that, or if you take someone's culture and try to claim it's yours.
People are looking for things to be offended by and to be hypersensitive to. The funny thing is is that it's much of the time non-white people living in Western countries that are constantly claiming cultural appropriation, while in their own countries the people would be happy to see others enjoying their culture. Do you know what I mean? And the other times it's usually racist people who want to discredit and look for things to get mad at white people for.
Mark
As I've said before, the IDEA of "cultural appropriation" is valid, but as in your examples, people take it WAY WAY too far ("is it cultural appropriation if I eat sea fish but live in the middle of a continent?", "is it cultural appropriation if I use toilet paper?")
Anonymous
Generally, yes. I mean, it's only cultural appropriation if you are literally wearing traditional things that are part of their culture and literally trying to be part of them. Like a White man trying to join a Native American tribe, or any non-Black trying to join an African tribe, etc. Or a Chinese man trying to say he is a Pharaoh of Egypt or whatever. Stuff like that.
But little things like Whites getting dreads, just no. Some Blacks are butthurt over Justin Bieber having dreads.
Dreads are an unnatural hairstyle so they belong to all races. Just like Braids and cornrows, etc. Just cuz Blacks get those weird unprofessional hairstyles the most often, that doesnt mean they own them. Blacks only do that cuz their own natural Afrocentric hair is very hard to manage and just looks more distracting. It would only be stealing if Whites made their hair Afrocentric, cuz that is Blacks predominate natural hair texture. Hence why Black Africans are called Afrocentric.
Black women always wearing Blonde straight-wavy texture wigs/waves and putting chemicals in their hair, and White, Indian, or Asians don't care.
Besides, even ancient White people had dreads. Even Native Americans braided their hair sometimes. It's just a damn hair, it's not man-made invention.
& It's racist to say all Whites look ugly with dreads. Has Charlamagne seen every White person of Earth? Of course not. That's like me saying every Black girl looks ugly with straight hair.
I personally think dreads look weird on everyone, Black or White or any other race. But I would not reject a girl just cuz she has dreads. I dont hate dreads, they just aren't my 1st preference.
Cato
Alex is correct, enough said. Hey? Anonymous is Avery, LOL. He blocked me, because I knew it was him on another question. see - http://postimg.org/image/rd91gjtg1/ He always goes ANON, smh. He's NOT really anon, this is his account. - /activity/questions?show=6NIMT7A6WWE56Z77IPFEJKN5FQ&t=g
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America is a melting pot. You dont like your culture being appropriated? Move.