Gamer (ex-Cantavanda)
〜Flower Prince〜
Hello!
There's something I don't understand at all... what's wrong with "cultural appropriation"?
As I understand the defenition, it's when a dominant culture such as white people take over certain elements of another smaller culture, and people see that as oppression and get very angry at it.
For example, when Kim Kardashian or any white celebrities change their hairstyle to braids or dreadlocks, this is seen as oppression or cultural appropriation, the same with nose rings, or references to other cultures in music videos or movies. For example, the person that won the last Eurovision, while being terrible music, was also criticized for appropriating Chinese culture, as an Israeli woman, and that's what I don't understand.
What's wrong with using elements of other cultures that you like? It seems like a honour or a hommage to that culture in my point of view. Yes, dreads/braids are typically of other cultures, but if a white person wants to rock them, isn't that person saying they love the element of that culture? And if the person in other aspects isn't a discriminatory person, what the crap is wrong with it? And why do people make such a big deal about it?
Every culture appropriates other cultures in a way, since the history of humanity. It's true that white European civilisation has oppressed and colonised a lot of other cultures, which is terrible, but I don't see how that affects an European woman getting a nose ring and dreads.
Plez exploin
There's something I don't understand at all... what's wrong with "cultural appropriation"?
As I understand the defenition, it's when a dominant culture such as white people take over certain elements of another smaller culture, and people see that as oppression and get very angry at it.
For example, when Kim Kardashian or any white celebrities change their hairstyle to braids or dreadlocks, this is seen as oppression or cultural appropriation, the same with nose rings, or references to other cultures in music videos or movies. For example, the person that won the last Eurovision, while being terrible music, was also criticized for appropriating Chinese culture, as an Israeli woman, and that's what I don't understand.
What's wrong with using elements of other cultures that you like? It seems like a honour or a hommage to that culture in my point of view. Yes, dreads/braids are typically of other cultures, but if a white person wants to rock them, isn't that person saying they love the element of that culture? And if the person in other aspects isn't a discriminatory person, what the crap is wrong with it? And why do people make such a big deal about it?
Every culture appropriates other cultures in a way, since the history of humanity. It's true that white European civilisation has oppressed and colonised a lot of other cultures, which is terrible, but I don't see how that affects an European woman getting a nose ring and dreads.
Plez exploin