A serious question deserves a serious poll

[megwrites]

I know, I know. It's that Cultural Appropriation Thing^TM again, but hey. The worst thing we could do is pretend that it doesn't exist, right?

Don't worry, it won't hurt. Just take the poll.


[Poll #1352312]

Comments

[coolmajaka.livejournal.com]

In my mind, cultural appropriation is bunk in America. We're all so mixed and matched it's all a heterogeneous mess. And that's a good thing.

[summers-place.livejournal.com]

To my mind, the flip side of railing about "cultural appropriation" is a - covert, at best - call for some sort of cultural "purity" in which mixing is discouraged or even punished. And as the distance between a thing and its obverse is often quite small indeed... well. Seriously, who wants to live in a world where cultures are expected to remain unmixed, forever separate and everyone is constrained to "stick to their own kind" of whatever? And what about people who happen to be born of mixed cultural heritage - are they seriously supposed to choose only one facet and identify with that?

I really do tend to see the majority of cries about "cultural appropriation" as so much BS. Not all, mind you, but the vast majority, yes.

YMMV, as always.

[denoue-moi.livejournal.com]

I'm confused. II thought the very definition of culture was being learns something, being teaches other beings. Something that is aggregate. Something we all contribute our elements to in order to form a somewhat integrated, fluid network. If we didn't all copy each other once in a while, we'd be missing out. We'd have to create everything ourselves. We'd still be cavepeople.