Considering how much stuff we (Christians) stole from errybody else, including all the Pagan holidays we borrowed, I don’t think any of us should bitch about rosaries or crucifixes being “stolen”. Besides which, they didn’t invent crucifixion for Jesus. It was an established method of punishment. We stole it to remind ourselves of Jesus! …oh fuck more cultural appropriationThis upsets me, only because people seem to think that white people deciding they want dreadlocks just cuz is wrong. That’s fucked up. There is absolutely no reason that someone can’t say “oh, I like the way this looks so I’m going to do it.” You can call that denying its cultural background and history but its like you have no sense of the WORLD right now. EVERYONE, not just white people, and not just with dreadlocks, does this all the time. People either don’t know, or don’t care anything about what the cultural background is, or quite frankly what you think.
so you can just take whatever the fuck you want from a culture just because you think its cute and chic? your turning something that has cultural relevance into a fashion trend that you will be done with by the fall. people are so stupid
Preach!
preaaaaaach
What about people who wear the rosary as a fashion statement or have Chinese/Japanese characters tattooed on themselves? Or tattoos themselves? Or mowhawks? When does something cross the line from appropriation to actually becoming trans-cultural?
as far as the rosary, idc, christianity and its many sects are the majority rule here
chinese/japanese tattooed on oneself, definitely yes, if one has no reasonable connection (like having lived there/studied there/worked there/being trained by someone there/upon approval of someone there/knowing exactly what it means/etc)
tattoos and mohawks themselves ARE appropriative, just largely accepted. just because people from that culture don’t complain doesn’t mean it’s not appropriation. it means we’ve focused our energy to other things.
if you steal something and keep it a million years, it doesn’t magically become yours. it still becomes stolen property. whether someone will complain about it years later is one thing, but IT’S STILL STOLEN
there’s another word for cultural appropriation: evolution. cultural appropriation is merely the way society blends, changes, and grows; it represents acceptance and admiration and results, eventually, in harmony where once was strife. and to dismiss someone of one race for “culturally appropriating” some visual iconography of another is profiling: none of us can tell, at a glance, what races or cultures another person’s ancestry comprises.
