The use of the term “Cultural Appropriation” is bullshit about 95% of the time.
I don’t know why you’re sharing some obscure blogger’s shit as if it is supposed to mean anything.
As a tactic, this sort of thing is the realm of the alt-right / conservatives who love to find one obscure loon and then spread their shit with the claim that ALL LIBERALS believe whatever lunacy they’re posting.
As a “Huh, look at this, this chick is nuts”, I’m less interested in seeing this sort of thing.
There are some genuine social issues where the alt-right latch on to rare extremist nonsense in an attempt to discredit everything.
But with “cultural appropriation” the proportions are reversed, it seems to be 95% bullshit to me. So I don’t think mockery of the nonsense is inappropriate.
There is a tribe on a remote island in the Pacific whose culture revolves around mockery of nonsense. I would appreciate it if you did not callously appropriate their culture in this thread!
No worries, mate! G’day!
Australians got culture? Who knew!? Next thing you’ll be telling us is that Americans got cuisine. We just take stuff from everyone else and supersize it.
I would never argue with someone’s feelings. I might well argue whether anyone’s feelings ought to be the basis of policy or accepted practice, even though I am a white guy and the other person may not be.
I can still wear my Prince T’Challa costume with realistic dark skin overlay for Hallowe’en, though, right?
I literally tweeted Ryan Coogler and asked him this very question, but he hasn’t replied. He may be a tad busy, though.
Not just pop music, but all music, unless you go back to the first person ever to bang two rocks together.
“Me invent rock music.”
That’s not how it happened
You forgot the part that the Bruno Mars one is from 2016 and the two linked in the OP are from 2015 – so pointless AND old.
Wah? Bruno is like pineapple and pepperoni pizza. I’ve been so wrong about him. I will have try another slice.
I like the little dude, truly. He’s all kinda cool.
You and I should trick or treat together! I’m going as Stepin Fetchit. Dude alway cracked me up.
Meetcha at 11PM, corner of 125th Street and Malcolm X Blvd., Harlem!
QFT.
For real. She’s accusing Mars of appropriating while shilling an album of covers. WTF?
Unless you’re wholesale stealing an entire culture for yourself, or stealing something of deep cultural or spiritual meaning for a different meaning in your culture, there isn’t any such thing as cultural appropriation.
Humans are smart. We learn and adapt. We filled every ecological niche on the planet we grew up on. Not through evolution, through adaptation and technology.
The Horse Cultures of the American West would not have happened without lost and escaped Spanish horses. Were they “culturally appropriating” horses? No, they were adapting to something new.
New experiences and new ideas breed even more new ideas and creative impulses as more people are exposed to them. This is a good thing. We will adapt and adopt alien cultural ideas and patterns too once we’re exposed to them.
Of course, an intentional cultural appropriation that really didn’t work was One Man Gang, this 6’9" 450 pound white professional wrestler, becoming Akeem the African Dream. No, he wasn’t in blackface. He just wore African garb, claimed to be from Africa and had to live the gimmick in the era of kayfabe (read: back when they pretended it is was all real).
But the entire idea was to draw heat - boos - for OMG/Akeem as a bad guy.
And he had a black manager, a skinny, slimy guy named “Slick”.
Why yes, that actually happened, from 1988-1990.
Some would argue, and I’m inclined to be sympathetic to the argument, that this concept was, is, and has always been hooey, given how immigrants and their cultures are often treated, and how important many think “assimilation” is.
There are reasons to dislike Bruno Mars (hint: grenade), but ‘cultural appropriation’ isn’t one of them.