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The thing that I find so hilarious about the concept of “cultural appropriation” is the fact that if you ever paid attention in high school history class you’d know about “cultural diffusion” which, as opposed to cultural appropriation, is actually real.
It’s pretty simply described as the spreading of culture throughout societies and the world. It’s a completely natural process that has been occurring for millennia, and it totally flies in the face of cultural appropriation.
“Cultural appropriation” is a racist concept that exists only to divide people. It is actively anti-progress to say that cultures are not allowed to spread out and be used by those outside that culture. By advocating for it, you are inhibiting the natural progress of human society.
The thing I find so hilarious about ignorant people is the they think education ends in high school. If you continued to study into university you’d know cultural diffusion and cultural appropriation are both anthropological/sociological concepts backed by decades of research.
They are different concepts with different definitions.
Cultural appropriation describes the use of traditions from marginalized groups by dominant groups, especially in a post colonial context, while cultural diffusion more generically describes the spread of a practices from one culture to another.
If you believe one is real, both must be as both are used without controversy in anthropology and sociologogy for different purposes to describe different situations. Cultural diffusion no more flies in the face of cultural appropriation than any other valid anthropological concept.
I imagine you’d also be shocked to learn that their are other terms that describe even OTHER kinds of cultural interaction like : cultural exchange, assimilation, and forced assimilation. And you want to get really specific, there are even many different kinds of cultural diffusion.
Cultural appropriation is a valid anthropological, sociological and even legal concept, to the point where hundreds of indigenous leaders from around the world met at the UN to discuss how to enact policies to prevent its harmful consequences from affecting their cultures.
But don’t listen to me, here are some quotes by experts on the subject :
Cultural appropriation is “taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else’s culture without permission … when the source community is a minority group that has been oppressed or exploited in other ways.” – from Who Owns Culture?: Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law by Fordham law professor Susan Scafidi
“Two ways in which cultural appropriation can be harmful are easily identified. The first sort of harm is violation of a property right … The second sort of harm is an attack on the viability or identity of the cultures or their members. Appropriation that undermines a culture in these ways would certainly cause devastating and clearly wrongful harm to members of the culture … Other acts of appropriation potentially leave members of a culture exposed to discrimination, poverty and lack of opportunity.” – from The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation (edited by Young and Brunk)
The only thing inhibiting the progress of society is OP’s classify anti-intellectualistic nonsense.
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Even by the descriptions you’ve cited from professionals, I’ve never seen anything that could be described as such in the modern era. Certainly not anything the left likes to cite as “cultural appropriation”.
I’d like to see one good example of the idea. I don’t give half a rat’s ass what someone said in a book, unless it’s something I can witness in the real world I simply will not believe it is a real thing.
Also, doesn’t answer why the idea of cultural appropriation is used almost exclusively as a racism tactic these days.
And oh boy you mentioned colonialism. Gosh heck.
Also, saying that I’m “anti-intellectualistic” doesn’t mean I am.
Well good thing no one is basing any decicion making on your limited personal experiences then.
Please feel free to go through my resources tag, more books on the subject are cited there for you to educate yourself with. There are also the cultural appropriation, cultural exchange and cultural appreciation tags on my blog for you to peruse. I don’t waste my time explaining things to people who clearly want to remain ignorant.
Again, what you do or do not personally witness is not the arbiter of truth. There are lots of things that exist in the world that I have never personally witnessed, but that doesn’t change the fact that they exist. What silly logic.
Asking people not to cause “discrimination and lack of opportunity” is not racism. Asking people not to cause “clearly devastating harm” is not racism.
Facts > your feelings.
Guys…
THEY actually tried to use “facts over feelings”.
There irony.
Yes, you’ve provided zero reliable sources or evidence to support your claims. I have. From experts on the subjects of cultural interaction and intellectual property.
Again, just because *you personally* haven’t seen the evidence (either out of laziness or willful ignorance) doesn’t change the fact that it exists.
When you have something other than your invalid, unsubstantiated opinions, I’d be happy to continue the conversation.
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Comparing the research of modern anthropologists and sociologists on cultural appropriation which happens under very stringent peer review to the unscientific aesthetics-based hierarchies used during the invention of race is its own logical fallacy known as a false equivalence.
Claiming that modern scientific research is invalid because some scientists were unethical in the past is called a genetic fallacy.
Honestly, if you’re going to cite fallacies, make sure you don’t engage in any yourself.
What makes me lol particularly hard is colonialism exists between non white groups (Japan and Korea, anyone?) and even between white groups (Britain and Ireland, anyone?), so your lack of historical knowledge and victim complex regarding white people is duly noted.
Like I said, when you have something other than your invalid unsubstantiated opinions to discuss, let me know.
@aridara and @schmaniel make excellent points in their own reblogs but what really struck me is OP has invalidated their own initial argument by trying to discredit the same experts and evidence that also created and refined the concept of cultural diffusion. Good catch schmaniel! Op can’t have it both ways.
And now OP is too scared to actually respond to anyone now that their ignorance has been seen by more people than they imagined, so they repeated their baseless unsubstantiated claim, yet again. Good thing repeating something false over and over again doesn’t make it true.
Oh and here’s a tip : resorting to ad hominem/namecalling attacks when you don’t have anything to back your claims is another logical fallacy and only shows your rabid desperation.
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