Should Cultural Appropriation be relabelled as Cultural Appreciation?

as long as people don't make false claims to be of a certain race or ethnicity

They're two different things imo. Getting a tattoo from a culture that isn't your own where tattooing is a closed practice is appropriation. Getting a henna tattoo by a South East Asian person is appreciation.

But given how blended and inspired fashion, art and design is, it's honestly hard to define what's what sometimes, so I think being open, asking questions and using common sense and kindness go a long way.

Isn't that what it used to be called before all this Woke bullshit?

‘Cultural Appropriation’ is a silly phrase, I’ll have no truck with a fool that uses a term like that.

Taking and using bits of other cultures that we admire is normal human behavior. WTH has gotten into some people these days? It’s all gotten very stupid.

I like your term much better👍

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Well it does make a fuck of a lot more sense. I'd prefer though no label and people do whatever the fuck they want as long as it's legal.

First world problems. It's just another fabricated concept, a tool for the 21st century liberal racist. People really need to get a life. What someone else wears or does with their hair is none of your fucking business.

I have done a lot of thought on it over the years, trying to understand both sides. I think where it becomes an issue is if someone is taking something from someone's culture that isn't their's and monetising it. Like when they would sell the north american indigenous head dresses. Those have cultural and spiritual meaning. I work at living history museum that has an indigenous people's pavilion and since white people (meaning the church) pretty much tried to irradicate their culture, and really them, to then make money on their clothing seems really wrong to me.

I also think that there are a lot of people, mostly younger white people, who have some sort of guilt over situations like what I just mentioned and are screaming appropriation at anything and everything to feel better about themselves. If a culture offers to share their clothing or practices with others, it's not appropriation.

That being said, I don't think that appropriation applies to food, and I also don't think that it's unnatural. I mean isn't that how we evolved. We (humanity) traveled to other places, learned new things, and then brought what we liked, or what would benefit us home with us. So I do agree that in a lot of scenarios appreciation could 100% replace appropriation.