If you are Asian, Hispanic, or White, and you twist your hair into dreadlocks, a few critics will accuse you of racism.
If you bring watermelon or fried chicken to an ethnically mixed picnic, and are not Black, someone may label you a racist.
If you don’t serve genuine Asian food in a student cafeteria, you may be displaying your racism.
If you bring watermelon or fried chicken to an ethnically mixed picnic, and are not Black, someone may label you a racist.
If you don’t serve genuine Asian food in a student cafeteria, you may be displaying your racism.
If you support teams with names like the Atlanta Braves, the Cleveland Indians, and the Washington Redskins, you may be a racist.
If you are White, Hispanic, or Asian, and belong to a rap band, you may be a racist.
And now, two women believe you may be a racist if you practice yoga. https://pjmedia.com/trending/professor-says-white-people-yoga-contributes-white-supremacy/
By their logic—or rather, illogic—you may also be a racist if you learn karate without practicing Shintoism or Buddhism as well.
Wow. Who knew?
It’s called cultural appropriation. You see something you like in another culture, you make it your own, and suddenly you’re a card-carrying member of the Klan.
Hmmmmm….If this is the case, then “cultural appropriation” has serious ramifications.
An example: If your heritage lies outside Western culture and you like blue jeans, you are guilty of cultural appropriation. Ditto on light bulbs, computers, radios, jazz, blues, rock and roll, television, movies, radio, cell phones, opera, Christianity, democracy, communism, socialism, industrialism, bratwurst, hamburgers, football, soccer, baseball, basketball, and now I’m out of breath.
As General McAuliffe replied to the German demands for surrender at the Battle of Bastogne, “Nuts.”
America is all about cultural appropriation.
And the idea that this appropriation is racist is bogus.
I am reading Will Durant’s The Story Of Civilization, and though he probably never heard the words “cultural appropriation”, Durant writes page after page about that very subject. In fact, if you wanted to retitle these volumes, you could call it The Story Of Cultural Appropriation.
People throughout history have appropriated other cultures, exchanging ideas and inventions like kids trading marbles. In The Story of Greece, for example, Durant tells us that the Greeks gave the West “schools, gymnasiums, arithmetic, geometry, history, rhetoric, physics, biology, anatomy, hygiene, therapy, cosmetics, poetry, music, tragedy, comedy, philosophy, theology, agnosticism, skepticism, stoicism…” and many other gifts.
Did the Greeks dream up all these things on their own?
No.
They took many of these ideas from Egypt, Crete, Phoenicia, Persia, and other places, and developed them. The genius of the Greeks lay in “cultural appropriation.” They grew and refined the thoughts and technology of other civilizations As Durant points out, other cultures—the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindu—were also masters of this “cultural appropriation.”
America is all about cultural appropriation. The town where I live boosts several Chinese restaurants, a soul-food restaurant, a Thai restaurant, two Italian eateries, pizza parlors, including one extolled by movie star Robert Duvall as serving the best pizza he ever tasted, hamburger joints, and establishments featuring traditional American fare. The Happy Creek Coffee Shop roasts and brews beans from Guatemala, Mexico, and half-a-dozen other countries. Martin’s, the local grocery store, stocks foods from around the world. In this town you’ll find yoga and karate classes, Irish step dancing groups, two high schools full of international students, many of them from China, and music—blues, jazz, folk, and classical—in a variety of venues.
We’re all of us happily appropriating other cultures, and by doing so, paying homage to that culture.
Moo goo gai pan, anyone?
If you are White, Hispanic, or Asian, and belong to a rap band, you may be a racist.
And now, two women believe you may be a racist if you practice yoga. https://pjmedia.com/trending/professor-says-white-people-yoga-contributes-white-supremacy/
By their logic—or rather, illogic—you may also be a racist if you learn karate without practicing Shintoism or Buddhism as well.
Wow. Who knew?
It’s called cultural appropriation. You see something you like in another culture, you make it your own, and suddenly you’re a card-carrying member of the Klan.
Hmmmmm….If this is the case, then “cultural appropriation” has serious ramifications.
An example: If your heritage lies outside Western culture and you like blue jeans, you are guilty of cultural appropriation. Ditto on light bulbs, computers, radios, jazz, blues, rock and roll, television, movies, radio, cell phones, opera, Christianity, democracy, communism, socialism, industrialism, bratwurst, hamburgers, football, soccer, baseball, basketball, and now I’m out of breath.
As General McAuliffe replied to the German demands for surrender at the Battle of Bastogne, “Nuts.”
America is all about cultural appropriation.
And the idea that this appropriation is racist is bogus.
I am reading Will Durant’s The Story Of Civilization, and though he probably never heard the words “cultural appropriation”, Durant writes page after page about that very subject. In fact, if you wanted to retitle these volumes, you could call it The Story Of Cultural Appropriation.
People throughout history have appropriated other cultures, exchanging ideas and inventions like kids trading marbles. In The Story of Greece, for example, Durant tells us that the Greeks gave the West “schools, gymnasiums, arithmetic, geometry, history, rhetoric, physics, biology, anatomy, hygiene, therapy, cosmetics, poetry, music, tragedy, comedy, philosophy, theology, agnosticism, skepticism, stoicism…” and many other gifts.
Did the Greeks dream up all these things on their own?
No.
They took many of these ideas from Egypt, Crete, Phoenicia, Persia, and other places, and developed them. The genius of the Greeks lay in “cultural appropriation.” They grew and refined the thoughts and technology of other civilizations As Durant points out, other cultures—the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindu—were also masters of this “cultural appropriation.”
America is all about cultural appropriation. The town where I live boosts several Chinese restaurants, a soul-food restaurant, a Thai restaurant, two Italian eateries, pizza parlors, including one extolled by movie star Robert Duvall as serving the best pizza he ever tasted, hamburger joints, and establishments featuring traditional American fare. The Happy Creek Coffee Shop roasts and brews beans from Guatemala, Mexico, and half-a-dozen other countries. Martin’s, the local grocery store, stocks foods from around the world. In this town you’ll find yoga and karate classes, Irish step dancing groups, two high schools full of international students, many of them from China, and music—blues, jazz, folk, and classical—in a variety of venues.
We’re all of us happily appropriating other cultures, and by doing so, paying homage to that culture.
Moo goo gai pan, anyone?