Fusion

[removed9556]

 

[Hypoxia]

Drop the tacos, chips, guacamole, and tequila, gringo. Pay the appropriation tax first.

 

[bellisarius]

Look at who's yearning for a return to segregation.

 

[WoundedKnee]

lol...

 

[IrezumiKiss]

*chuckle*

 

[Rightguide]

What It Was Like Being A White Girl with Dreadlocks

Was it cultural appropriation when Obama traded the traditional Muslim garb of Indonesia for the evil white man's three piece suit?

 

[oggbashan]

Is it cultural appropriation when China copies US inventions, markets them at lower prices, and doesn't pay a licence to the patent holders?

 

[WoundedKnee]

No, that's just criminal enterprise. When you deal with the Mafia, you get what you get.

 

[Luk]

Was it cultural appropriation when Obama traded the traditional Muslim garb of Indonesia for the evil white man's three piece suit?

Was it cultural appropriation when you stole vetteman's identity?

 

[ishtat]

It's a national scandal in Australia that 90% of the profit on aboriginal art goes to the non aboriginal dealers and only 10% to the artists.

Even 10% was too much for one greedy dealer so he got a Chinese supplier to provide 'original' paintings much cheaper. But the guy outsmarted himself - he insisted that the supplier put '100% Australian' on the pictures. And they did - in Chinese characters.

 

[removed9556]

 

[WoundedKnee]

It is humorous, if true and not an urban myth.

 

[oggbashan]

The Spanish are still annoyed that Bizet's Carmen celebrates in French a 'Toreador' - a bullfighting role that didn't exist. The correct term is Matador.

Contemporary hard-working cigarette manufacturing workers in Spain were also not amused by their role in the opera.

As for what the Italians did with opera to Shakespeare, to English and Scots history - it's just as well most English and Scots don't understand Italian.

An example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_di_Liverpool

Emilia, daughter of Claudio, the "Count of Liverpool", lives in a hermitage doing good works among the people of Liverpool. Years earlier she had rejected the noble Don Romualdo to elope with Federico.

 

[richard_daily]

I was having a conversation with some friends about "cultural appropriation". Apparently that means someone from one culture using something from another culture. Personally I think it's the most ignorant thing I've ever heard of.

First off I don't see why anyone would get spun up about someone else who has discovered that a particular thing from a culture is beautiful enough or important enough to emulate. After all they should feel complimented because as the saying goes, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

America is a land of fusion. We combine, amalgamate, fuse and weld pieces of different cultures together to form something brand new. That doesn't mean we all need to like the out come. It does mean that new cultural things are being created continuously.

A great example of the is Ganstagrass a fusion of Blue Grass and Rap. You don't have to like it, ,you do have to admire the work of fusing the two totally dissimilar musical genre.

Enjoy






Or not.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG7Ujh0XVH0




Comshaw

That's not exactly what cultural appropriation is.

Cultural appropriation is using someone else's identity, dumbing it down, and repackaging it in an offensive manner. Examples are white dudes with dreadlocks, or yuppies at coachilla wearing Native American head dresses... or about the Washington Redskins being a football team name that doesn't represent Native Americans and using offensive images.

it's not about taking ideas or concepts and melding them... it's about taking something that is firmly and patently offensive to ethnic or cultural minorities.

 

[Hypoxia]

My restringing a tenor 'ukulele (evolved from the Portuguese cavaquinho) as a mandola (evolved from the Turkish 'ud) surely offends some Hawai'ians. Or not. As long as I don't wear a lei and grass skirt FTW with a Venetian mask and Turkish fez.