I am confused as to why it is good or bad or neither. Genuinely confused. Please and thank you.
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Here is such an easy example.
Hula is a sacred art form for native Hawaiians that is connected to their ancient religion and practiced alongside chants which recount their oral histories and creation myths (equivalent to the Genesis stories in the Bible). When missionaries arrived in the islands in the 1820s, they denounced hula as evil and wicked and convinced they chiefs they converted to outlaw the practice.
The in the 1920s, white people started dancing the hula in vaudeville and sideshows on the mainland to entertain each other and make money, and they did it badly and for laughs. It was evil for native peoples to practice their ancient art form as part of thousands of years of history and tradition, but okay for white people to strip all that way and make a mockery of it for entertainment and for profit.
Notice that it’s not usually the same white people who denounce something as white people who then take it and strip it if it’s cultural importance to make it trendy. It’s not something that one person does and needs to be punished for, it’s a general phenomenon caused by racism and double standards that marginalizes people of color and enriches white people at their expense. I
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