[ SECRET POST #4934 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4934 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Bojack Horseman]


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[The Chicks, Taylor Swift]


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[The Infinite Loops]


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[Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children]


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[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

What you see on tumblr and around is usually a case of kids who mean really well, but don't understand what the problem actually is (e.g., when the white European "interpretation" of another culture's tradition is given more validation and popular acceptance than the original) skip straight to a weird "all ethnicities must only participate in cultural practices that originated with them" brand of segregation.

In non-internet life, there's also a... let's call them the "Joy Luck Club" faction, of 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants who are resentful of people outside of their ancestral culture adopting aspects of that culture's fashion, art, cuisine, whatever. Generally, this happens when your parents were big on making sure you assimilated into the dominant culture and you resent that other people are dabbling in traditions that you were semi-forcibly divorced from.

TL;DR: Cultural appropriation is a real thing. But a lot of people keep using that word and it doesn't mean what they think it means.

[(Anonymous)]

Gosh, thank you. THIS really sums it up.

This is just a personal example and I'm not Japanese but I think it's ironic how, in internet culture, it's perfectly alright to go "oMg JaPaNeSe ArE sO cRaZy xD wEiRd CoMmErCiAlS!!!" but wanting to know more about actual wafuku/kimono is absurd...?

In other words, I don't think there's any actual shift in perspective (ie. viewing/judging of things from a very ethnocentric perspective, particularly by people in a privileged culture/country/etc. and subsequently judging everything and everyone on basis of those "dominant cultures" ...) when some white person from some developed country goes "ENJOYING THINGS FROM OTHER CULTURES IS PROBLEMATIC!! DON'T DO IT" and doesn't really know why it is problematic, thus can't explain it to others; it's just a lot of, well, censoring and needless segregation in my opinion. But yeah, we keep making those dumb rules because it's 2020 and humanity is still full of bigots. (Like the one who wanted to trademark poke - I had no idea that was a thing lmaoo)