# Where do you draw the line as to what is or is not cultural appropriation?

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**Created:** [September 28, 2022, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-draw-the-line-as-to-what-is-or-is-not-cultural-appropriation/972360 "2022-09-28T05:24:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-draw-the-line-as-to-what-is-or-is-not-cultural-appropriation/972360/126 "2022-10-03T07:22:21Z")

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> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#):
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> They said that Italians and Jews are now culturally white

Which is true, in modern American society. It is also true that several decades or more ago in American society, that would not have been considered generally true. MandaJo was making a valid observation about a well-attested cultural phenomenon. Why are you incorrectly calling that “crude and lazy”?

[ETA: Link to [a last year’s thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-were-italians-discriminated-against-so-harshly-in-the-early-twentieth-century/938461/3) documenting the former American perception of Italians and other Europeans as “not white”.]

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