[mythhouse]

picking parts of a different culture that sound cool to you and use it for your own benefit, to give you some cultural cache. You still think the people who produced this culture are not on par with you. Whites don't think native americans are on par with them so using apache for name is cultural appropriation.

corollary, picking up something from white culture like wearing jeans isn't appropriation because whites have established themselves as top dog already.

Its pretty simple, really.

[theRealMe]

As a white person, am I allowed to pick up something from another culture if I think that the culture is “on par” with me?

Or is the “on par” piece completely made up and just assumed to not be the case?

[mythhouse]

> Or is the “on par” piece completely made up and just assumed to not be the case?

You think the fact the native americans are poorest people with lowest life expectancy is made up ?

yes your fellow compatriot belonging to poorest class of people for belonging to a particular group of people should be a good hint. Like i said its really simple. People trying over complicate this or trying to find gotchas are being disingenuous.

[readthenotes1]

as a white person, your culture is defined by taking things from others (e.g., the english language is a melange of many languages).

therefore, it is cultural appropriation to adopt cultural appropriation as a perjorative

[kodyo]

As a white person of only partial English descent, that's not my definition of my culture.

[readthenotes1]

try to find purity in an american rendition of northwestern european culture. language, holy days, vakue systems--all are taken from elsewhere. lmk what you find. I'll wait until St Paddy's day to find you crying in your green beer...

[yehudalouis]

> You still think the people who produced this culture are not on par with you.

I do think they are on par with me.

[mythhouse]

sorry. I was using a generic you, comment wasn't directed at you specifically

[yehudalouis]

No worries. But I think that points out something of a hole in the argument, no? If the generic `you` is what you intended to mean, isn't that a blanket assumption?

[mythhouse]

Sure yea. I think people on receiving end can only think in aggregates and general patterns. Individual opinions are not really relevant.

Native americans are the poorest class of people in America so its obvious that the mainstream culture doesn't view them as equals.

[nathanaldensr]

No, it's not obvious at all. Economic wealth does not necessarily equate to cultural equality.

[groffee]

You need to get out into the real world more.

[mythhouse]

ditto.