• SoyViking [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I never really understood the concept of cultural appropriation. I thought it was a little far-fetched. Then I learned about "Israeli" cuisine and I immediately got it.

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I didn't get it until I learned about "Elizardbeth Warren"

    • Vampire [any]
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      1 year ago

      I didn't get it til I saw people copying my culture really badly

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          • TheCaconym [any]
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            1 year ago

            his latest authentic foreign vacation where an authentic rug merchant sold him an authentic exotic rug while authentically haggling with him while offering him authentic homemade tea in his authentic quaint foreign dwelling,

            kombucha-disgust

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              • TheCaconym [any]
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                1 year ago

                It's impressive how exactly similar the discourse you quickly sketched out in your original comment is to what I hear in france-cool from cretins coming back from airplane holidays.

                Usually combined with insane stuff like "they live so simply", "they have so little but they're so happy", "they really know how to relax", "they're so welcoming and authentic", etc.

                I guess "wine cave liberals" are universal across the empire

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                  • TheCaconym [any]
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                    1 year ago

                    Yup. "They have so little", motherfucker that's because we took it all

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        • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          I actually had this experience once, but it was pretty light shit talking, and was a miracle they happened to use words I understood. Nobody was impressed, but we all laughed.

        • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          in my experience people are happy you try and learn their language (unless they're Icelandic, Icelandic people often feel that the language is so small outside influence would destroy it)

          • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            One of the more annoying aspects of living in Japan was when people would assume I couldn't speak Japanese and would desperately try to speak English, which they very clearly hadn't used in absolute ages, and basically refuse to speak in Japanese no matter what. There were plenty of people that once I spoke Japanese to them you could see the relief and just went with it. Generally people were happy that I spoke Japanese.

            • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              learning someone's language is to my mind the ultimate mark of respect. It's a lot of work and you took it to reach out to them

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      1 year ago

      It doesn't really make sense outside the context of colonial domination. The point isn't that it's bad to adopt the customs or ways of other cultures, so much as it is to do so for the purpose of obscuring or eliminating that culture.

    • oregoncom [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      My first encounter with the concept of cultural appropriation (without knowing the word at the time) was when I saw my boomer Chinese dad get mad at the fact that there was unlicensed Walmart(a mall that decided to name itself Walmart for whatever reason) in China that had a KFC inside(inauthentic appropriation of burgerland culture) and not Mcdonald's (authentic).