I have a question about cultural appropriation.

[Lik3]

Is all cultural appropriation based on racism, disrespect, or ignorance?

 

[Far Side Of the Moon]

I definitely feel some people are genuinely interested or just really love the culture..I think that's fine, it's fine to appreciate. It's just dangerous when you claim something as your own and don't give credit for it... That isn't right.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

Is all cultural appropriation based on racism, disrespect, or ignorance?

No.
Just from your post, the problem is all that is based on lies and deception,
from the enemy of Christ,
without any regard necessarily to culture and/or race.

 

[A_Thinker]

I definitely feel some people are genuinely interested or just really love the culture..I think that's fine, it's fine to appreciate. It's just dangerous when you claim something as your own and don't give credit for it... That isn't right.

Is all cultural appropriation based on racism, disrespect, or ignorance?

We live in a multi-cultural society.

Anything in that society is up for grabs to anyone in the society.

 

[dreadnought]

Is all cultural appropriation based on racism, disrespect, or ignorance?

I don't understand the question, but back in the old days, people only made accusations of racism when evidence supported those accusations.

 

[A_Thinker]

I don't understand the question, but back in the old days, people only made accusations of racism when evidence supported those accusations.

I don't know if that's true or not.

Perhaps there just used to be a lot more evidence ....

 

[dreadnought]

I don't know if that's true or not.

Perhaps there just used to be a lot more evidence ....

In the old days, if you constantly called people racists, people called it "using the race card."

 

[A_Thinker]

In the old days, if you constantly called people racists, people called it "using the race card."

Are you speaking of the days if slavery, Jim crow, separate facilities, back-of-the-bus, etc. ?

I.e. less than 50 years ago ...

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

I don't understand the question, but back in the old days, people only made accusations of racism when evidence supported those accusations.

What evidence can you present to prove this ?

As far as I am aware, all through history people might make any accusation they thought would help their cause, regardless of evidense....

Sadly, same as they did when they were accusing Messiah to get Him crucified.

Then comes to mind, thinking on Scripture, Daniel,
then Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego,

then Mordecai, etc in Esther,

and many many other examples in Scripture, and throughout history.

 

[dreadnought]

Are you speaking of the days if slavery, Jim crow, separate facilities, back-of-the-bus, etc. ?

I.e. less than 50 years ago ...

No, I'm talking about a short while ago. I call it the "old days" because things have changed so much in the last couple of years.

 

[dreadnought]

What evidence can you present to prove this ?

As far as I am aware, all through history people might make any accusation they thought would help their cause, regardless of evidense....

Sadly, same as they did when they were accusing Messiah to get Him crucified.

Then comes to mind, thinking on Scripture, Daniel,
then Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego,

then Mordecai, etc in Esther,

and many many other examples in Scripture, and throughout history.

I was there. A few years ago, people didn't run around calling everybody racist.

 

[AvilaSurfer]

Are we talking about the girl who wore the Chinese dress? Or the senator who lied about her heritage to get into school?

 

[A_Thinker]

No, I'm talking about a short while ago. I call it the "old days" because things have changed so much in the last couple of years.

So then, ... that was before the seeming rash of Blacks being shot or, in one case, axphisiated by police ???

 

[A_Thinker]

Are we talking about the girl who wore the Chinese dress? Or the senator who lied about her heritage to get into school?

In all honesty, you don't know that she's lying. Everybody I know has a story of Indian heritage in their family. In most case, it is even just one Native American heir somewhere down the line. Depending upon what records were kept, these stories are either provable, or not. Not being provable doesn't mean that the story is a lie.

Even ancestry sites are having difficulty proving the Native American presence that they know existed in the Americas ...

 

[JackRT]

I'm of Scots, Irish and French heritage but I love Italian and Chinese food. Me bad --- so very bad.

 

[dreadnought]

So then, ... that was before the seeming rash of Blacks being shot or, in one case, axphisiated by police ???

When did this happen?

 

[A_Thinker]

When did this happen?

Starting about (5) ago ...

Unarmed blacks killed by police ... Here's A Timeline Of Unarmed Black People Killed By Police Over Past Year

 

[Strathos]

IMO cultural appropriation is yet another one of those ideas that may have had a purpose in the beginning, but has been so overused and had the definition stretched so much that it's all but meaningless now.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

I was there. A few years ago, people didn't run around calling everybody racist.

Really? You posted otherwise in this same thread >>

I don't understand the question, but back in the old days, people only made accusations of racism when evidence supported those accusations.

In the old days, if you constantly called people racists, people called it "using the race card."

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As far as I am aware, all through history people might make any accusation they thought would help their cause, regardless of evidence....
EVEN if it would hurt their cause - just emotional not rational....

i.e. people never require evidence to make false accusations or claims,
it comes naturally to men to sin.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

IMO cultural appropriation is yet another one of those ideas that may have had a purpose in the beginning, but has been so overused and had the definition stretched so much that it's all but meaningless now.

What possible purpose could it have had at any time ?