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+ | **Cultural Appropriation Vs Cultural Exchange Thread by @workingdog_ on Twitter:** | ||
+ | Cultural exchange is when two people/ | ||
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+ | What's important here is 1. We shared because we're friends 2. We are both just as able to practice our own culture as before. Neither of us is preventing the other from practicing this part of their culture. 3. Neither of us is profiting off of the other' | ||
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+ | Cultural Appropriation is not a friendly sharing of culture between groups. It's not my Puerto Rican coworker teaching me about dulce de Lechoza at lunch and me giving her an Ayin Hora charm. It's when culture is violently TAKEN and profited off of. | ||
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+ | Consider: in the US white western european culture dominates. Every other racial and ethnic group is persecuted for openly practicing their culture. You can't just wear a Sari in public and not be mistreated for it. And often, now and historically, | ||
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+ | So here we have groups where their culture is being taken away from them. They can't freely practice their culture. And then when white people, the dominant group who worked to erase that culture, who continue to stigmatize and suppres it. when THEY do it, they are celebrated? | ||
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+ | If an indigenous person smudges sage they are seen as a savage uncivilized person stuck in the past, BY white people, using it to justify stealing land And when a white woman smudges sage, she's seen as enlightened, | ||
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+ | You can see how what has effectively happened is she has TAKEN the practice. She has it now, and its original culture still cannot do it freely. She turns a profit from some sage business. The community she took it from sees none of that money. She TOOK it. It's been appropriated. | ||
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+ | To add insult to injury, cultural appropriation is often done in ways which are wrong, inaccurate, disrespectful, | ||
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+ | This is the explanation I give when other white people have trouble understanding what the problem is with cultural appropriation. How it's different from the natural healthy cultural exchange that happens all the time when two cultures comingle. It's not friendly or consensual. | ||
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+ | Now I'm hearing the phrase " | ||
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+ | Seeing the entire world as yours for the taking. You see it, you like it, you take it. Everything in the world exists just for you. That's the Colonial Mindset. The entire world is not for you. Someone else's precious things are not yours to take just because you think it's cool. | ||
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+ | One time my friend (who is Yup' | ||
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+ | I enjoy eating Puerto Rican food and that's Cultural Appreciation I do not need to open a Puerto Rican Restaurant or like, write a cook book. I can think Maōri tattoos look beautiful I don't need to get one myself. You understand the difference here, yes? | ||
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+ | Why don't you pay reparations to this culture if you're so inspired by them. Rather than pillaging their culture. Taking what you want and leaving the people themselves behind while pipelines are built through their sacred places That's their culture too, do you care about that? | ||
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+ | And is it exactly " |
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