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Originally Posted by Mstimc
Reminds me of the picture my wife (who was born in Mexico) forced me to take with the fake stuffed jackass in front of Olvera Street a few years ago. Besides the cultural appropriation, I felt like an idiot in a sombrero and fake rifle.
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Tim, if your wife was fine with it...? I'd also like to see that photo!
I hope the term "cultural appropriation" is a fad. When I first head that term and people talking and writing about it, my thought was, "so what if someone from a different culture likes something from another culture and delves into it? I mean, though it doesn't come from real cultures, isn't that what fans of Star Wars, Star Trek (Trekkies) and super-hero movies essentially are doing, too? No harm no foul there, though, because those things were made up?
The whole idea of the term to me seems to be that if there is cultural appropriation, someone is getting something taken away from them, or someone else is getting something they don't deserve. Or both. The whole idea of that term just makes me think that everyone nowadays is looking for some reason to be offended by or from something or someone else.
I mean, if current Americans suddenly got interested and started replicating the fashions/dress and art and customs of colonial times would that be a cultural appropriation of their own history? Because you rarely see any of that anywhere.
People want everyone to come together and yet they keep doing things to separate people coming together. If I was really into something from another culture and was told I shouldn't be, I'd be offended.
There's lots of various good articles about the subject from all sides, linked on wikipedia if people want to read them.