[ SECRET POST #1958 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1958 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 104 secrets from Secret Submission Post #280.
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Comments

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

I've read dozens of posts on Cultural Appropriation and I'm still not 100% clear on what it is and whether something is or isn't cultural appropriation, but the best definition I can think of is "commodification of culture," particularly in a way that is particularly disrespectful to that culture or takes something away from that culture.

Before I go on and get tl;dr on you I'll say this - I've never read enjoyment of food being called cultural appropriation, and I've at least once if not a few times seen food pointed out as specifically not cultural appropriation unless you're somehow being a big dick about it. That person who messaged you is a misogynist ass too, so I wouldn't lose too much sleep over their opinion.

For example, people wearing feathers meant to simulate the headdresses and hair decorations of Native Americans are taking cultural items - some of them sacred - and, without care for how those items are used in their original context, they are turned into kitsch and sold for a few dollars to wear because it looks cute. You've taken something cultural and turned it into a commodity.
Likewise, when a writer writes an alien society full of Japanese stereotypes, they're using a real world culture to spice things up because "ooh it's foreign."

A rule of thumb I've heard that I like is: If you met somebody you respected who comes from the culture you're wearing clothes from/writing about/wearing jewelry from/etc, would you feel embarrassed?