Yeah I have a challenging relationship with cultural appropriation. I mean obviously the pic in this post looks pretty fucked up, but I don't think it's necessarily bad for people to explore cultures outside of their personal backgrounds or even adopt some of the aspects they find interesting or develop some kind of meaning with. It's good to call out when people do it in bad taste, but I think there's a lot of shaming people for genuinely absorbing parts of foreign cultures and expressing it.
Yeah that's a tough one. Especially since that path seems to be a lightening rod for people with trust funds trying to find themselves. I suppose their hearts are often in the right place but it's often very superficial and exhausting.
Yeah I have a challenging relationship with cultural appropriation. I mean obviously the pic in this post looks pretty fucked up, but I don't think it's necessarily bad for people to explore cultures outside of their personal backgrounds or even adopt some of the aspects they find interesting or develop some kind of meaning with. It's good to call out when people do it in bad taste, but I think there's a lot of shaming people for genuinely absorbing parts of foreign cultures and expressing it.
I think my biggest gripe is when white people become yogis or whatever to cash in on the popularity of an otherwise shit upon culture.
Yeah that's a tough one. Especially since that path seems to be a lightening rod for people with trust funds trying to find themselves. I suppose their hearts are often in the right place but it's often very superficial and exhausting.