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Basically the fancy dress industry is in deep trouble.
I'm going to have to have some strong words with people at the office Christmas party.
Basically the fancy dress industry is in deep trouble.
I must admit I don't see mexican themed parties involving tequila and sombreros as particularly odious...
...but then I've got no culture of my own to appropriate so perhaps that's why?
"White pussy! Black pussy!"-type
The white privilege runs deep.
EH?!
Shriver is a pox. Writes a white American family drama...
Yes, I am fully indulging in the white privilege thing 5-6 days a week about 50 hrs to bring in the cash so In the process my taxes can be used to fuel college courses and build safe spaces and giving the brightest of the young the opportunity of being in constant alert mode regarding being triggered and being victimized by micro-aggressions.
What makes cultural appropriation a problem is the relative power balance between the people appropriating and the people who feel that their culture is being appropriated, I think that has to be mentioned first and foremost.
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What defines the “relative power” of vast and complex cultures, when people claim that the problem is power imbalances? Given that any culture contains vast internal inequality in political power, economic power, social status, etc, what is the coherent meaning of a culture’s relative power? Is it perfectly congruent with the historical military and economic power of a given country? Is it simply an artifact of historical imperialism? Japan was both the victim of imperialism and guilty of imperialism. How does that historical complexity inform our understanding of its relative power? Do rising non-Western, non-European world powers like China count as appropriators or the appropriated? If the United States continues to decline in power relative to other non-Western, non-European countries, will it in time become a culture that is the victim of appropriation?
These are not trick questions. They’re not a joke. I’m not asking them rhetorically. I’m asking for actual answers, for a simple reason: if cultural appropriation is an immoral behavior that should be stopped, then it’s the duty of people saying so to articulate a positive vision of how to avoid that bad behavior. I’ve never heard such a thing, and I’ve looked really hard.
EH?!
Fine and I agree with you and Droid that what Shriver is saying (and no doubt her fiction work too, though I haven't read it) is highly dickish. But... using 'cultural appropriation' as a critique is problematic itself and raises a lot more questions than it answers. From the Freddie deBoer blog post...
Yes, I am fully indulging in the white privilege thing 5-6 days a week about 50 hrs to bring in the cash so In the process my taxes can be used to fuel college courses and build safe spaces and giving the brightest of the young the opportunity of being in constant alert mode regarding being triggered and being victimized by micro-aggressions.