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phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Wtf is it with these exclusionary people always have to “YOU CANNOY HAVE DREADLOCKS THST IS RACIST EHITE PEOPLE NEVER HAD DREADS” and nice, sweet things like these…
Fuck you, I do what I want to do and if you’re butt hurt because you don’t like my food them find a therapist
I hate the term “cultural appropriation”. I love it when people take interest and want to participate in my traditions! That’s what makes being a human fun!
Sure, sometimes buttfaces will make caricatures of my people, but they will do that anyways and no amount of PC policing will ever stop people who want to be jerks.
By that logic you can’t call ppl out on anything because jerks are gonna be jerks. If ppl didnt call jerks out on their bullshit minstrel shows would still be a thing
Cultural appropriation is something like McDonald’s advertising a new Indian burger and it’s just a beefburger with some chillies in it, i.e. someone’s attempting to gain from a bastardised caracature of the culture that wouldn’t be something someone from that culture would participate in. Right wing pundits intentionally misrepresented it as things like eating a traditional dish from another culture to make it sound stupid so people would dismiss it, and then people who’d only heard the misrepresentation but wanted to do the right thing or at least appear to be doing the right thing started acting like it was immoral to participate in any culture you weren’t born into.
I would call your example fusion cuisine, which is the best kind and an absolute win. I guess if I was feeling extra cynical I would call it pandering, but I still fail to see why it’s a bad thing.
Making a pan-Indian beef burger would be complicated at best.
The more common example would be misuse of native American war bonnets at music festivals and the like.
Because its someone (usually white) bastardizing/stealing your culture while making money off of it.
And how is it fusion when traditionally Indians don’t eat beef? Thats like calling a bacon cheese burger the Arab burger.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
I have asked four black people I know about whites wearing dreadlocks. The answers ranged from my cousin‘s Nigerian wife; „Haha, nah, it’s fine.“ to my neighbor „That’s something only white women care about“.
It’s a step on the spiral of moral purity, that doesn’t actually improve the life of any black person.