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Re:The Concept of “Cultural Appropriation” by bitwize on Sunday October 03, 2021 @02:19PM (#28739258)
I got soured on cultural appropriation when I read about a museum exhibit allowing guests to try on a traditional Japanese kimono being shut down by the usual suspects, those being Asian-American busybodies with nothing better to do than to ruin Westerners' fun. (Japanese in Japan tend to enjoy seeing the spread of their culture across the world.) As long as the garment wasn't ceremonial, or reserved for a specific cultural class like the imperial family, it's fine, and it helps people understand finer details of traditional Japanese clothing like all the intricate steps and multiple people it took to put on a fine kimono. Because, after all, modern Japanese society is built on a foundation of Western cultural appropriation, right down to wearing Western or Western styled clothing in certain contexts.
Re:The Concept of “Cultural Appropriation” by Tomte on Sunday October 03, 2021 @02:48PM (#28739546)
In the Swing dancing scene there was a prominent "scandal" where a dance instructor had gone to a dance workshop in Senegal (as a participant) and befriended local dancers.

Those Senegalese women braided her hair in their traditional style, which said instructor posted on social media.

After that she lost several high-profile workshop appearances in America (because of massive boycotting demands by American dancers), because obviously that's cultural appropriation.

That hair style is African-American. How dare Senegalese women use it themselves and decide who gets to wear it?

Re:The Concept of “Cultural Appropriation” by dyson_vacuum on Sunday October 03, 2021 @03:23PM (#28739804)
I'm a west African who's frequently bemused by the small but very strident minority of African-Americans who get to decide who's "black enough" or not black enough or who gets to appropriate what culture. The whole notion is ridiculous to me. Rappers name themselves after mafiosi, italian handbags and swiss luxury watches. We all wear western style clothes and speak European languages, not to mention writing in Arabic numerals, worshipping middle eastern deities and what not. On the other side I'm always annoyed when I see snarky comments from cultural snobs on youtube when some new classical musician from Asia comes up about how they can't possibly really understand the music because they're not European enough and it's not 'their' music.
Re:The Concept of “Cultural Appropriation” by w0mbat on Sunday October 03, 2021 @03:10PM (#28739719)
I don't think it was actual Japanese Americans who shut down the kimono exhibit, but woke people intervening.

The Japanese diaspora is very sharing, and I've always felt welcomed into events like the Obon summer festivals in the US by my wife's Japanese American family. They love to dress up an English guy in a happi coat and make me join in the crowd dances with my hapa daughter.

We all really missed Obon this year.

Re:The Concept of “Cultural Appropriation” by fallingknife on Sunday October 03, 2021 @02:21PM (#28739283)
Surprised it was Asians and not the usual woke whites that objected. Never actually ran into anyone that cared about their own culture being appropriated.
Re:The Concept of “Cultural Appropriation” by _lz4k on Sunday October 03, 2021 @02:29PM (#28739372)
If you go to a heavily left-wing indoctrinated area that happens to have minorities, you will find the ones that care there.
Re:The Concept of “Cultural Appropriation” by trhway on Sunday October 03, 2021 @02:48PM (#28739548)
I guess that is cultural appropriation of white wokism.
Re:The Concept of “Cultural Appropriation” by dragonwriter on Sunday October 03, 2021 @03:00PM (#28739630)
Wokism itself (at least the thing that was criticized on the Left before the Right picked it up and used the label to criticize everything they don't like indiscriminately, so that the term has lost any coherent meaning) is a white bourgeios appropriation [0] of proletarian minority solidarity politics.

[0] In exactly the sense of this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28739266

Re:The Concept of “Cultural Appropriation” by TMWNN on Sunday October 03, 2021 @05:31PM (#28740678)
No, cultural colonialism. White wokesters impose their norms on minority communities. I guess we can call non-white wokesters Uncle Toms.