I am confused as to why it is good or bad or neither. Genuinely confused. Please and thank you.
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Cultural appropriation is something that is entirely subjective as to what it is, if it is good or bad, and who is at fault – and it is mostly ramped up to cause a storm, very few people really mind (but if you look in some articles or wherever you’d think it was a matter of life and death)
cultural appropriation has fairly negative connotations, and broadly, implies a person uses something of a culture that is not their own and that this is a bad thing (but that’s about it as far as you get before disagreements form)
There is no hard line between cultural ‘appropriation’ and mixing, what one person considers cultural appropriation another would consider harmless mixing of cultures – there is no hard rules or black/white division you can universally apply
It depends on what you define as a culture and what is ‘taken’, what counts as ‘using’ – all of this is subjective which really doesn’t help trying to define the overall term
Some comments have tried to say ‘it is this…’ but honestly it’s not that easy, because what they consider appropriation you (or other people of different cultures) may consider perfectly fine, or it doesn’t apply in all cases
Whether cultural appropriation is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ depends on how you and your audience define it, which is the problem – some comments have used examples that I wouldn’t consider cultural appropriation at all – and different people often disagree on what (if anything) from their own culture has been ‘appropriated’
It depends entirely on your audience, there really isn’t a “xyz is bad cultural appropriation, but abc is good cultural mixing” list, different people define cultures and the ‘things’ differently, what is good or bad depends on your own view and that of your audience
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