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Happy Lunar New Year (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 100 points 9 months ago

These people want to show, so hard, that they care but in the end they don't realize they are practically pushing for segregation.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 51 points 9 months ago

This is what happens most of the time when people scream cultural appropriation. The problem is that people without understanding of the terms use the terms every day. This leads to scenarios like the one above, or where someone is getting offended you're enjoying a cultural food, or listening to a specific kind of music. Appreciating other cultures isn't appropriation.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago

Exactly, appropriating means to take and pretend you invented it or created it. Interacting with culture or enjoying other people's culture isn't harmful and if these people actually went to other countries they'd realize their people WANT to share their culture.

[-] neptune@dmv.social 6 points 9 months ago

Yeah I agree that there is a TAKE vs a SHARE.

Some of the reason cultural appropriation is a bad thing is due to capitalism. Taking something, even symbolically, for profit, is different than learning, experiencing and sharing.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

I remember someone giving a huge speech on...tumblr probably it sounds like something that would come from that shithole...that white people learning Spanish was cultural appropriation.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's why people who do understand the terms need to call the people who don't out at every opportunity, but they won't do that because of "solidarity."

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

これは本当すぎる

(I'm white btw 😱😱😱)

[-] Aux@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

These people are racists. That's it.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 19 points 9 months ago

Hundred. Percent. It's astounding, I am astounded at the number of messages I have received as a result of this post exactly mirroring the less desired sentiment you've described.

But it's cool, they can go f*** themselves, there's like 2 billion people wholesomely celebrating this holiday in defiance of bigotry, so it's not a real problem.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago

That's why I laugh at anyone who unironically says "Cultural Appropiation"

I wonder if they realize that if cultures didn't borrow from other cultures we wouldn't have anime or instant ramen.

[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Or colleges, paper, math, the entire judicial system, and fireworks.

[-] ergifruit@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 9 months ago

plus imagining thinking that, as a white person, you have the ability to decide who gets to celebrate what, while speaking over Asian people. like that was a bigotry 360°; you went right around to being racist again lmao

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