Re:Caring for the only known full kākāpō feather cloak in th...
by AbrahamParangi on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @02:46PM
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Should the UK give the US the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom in perpetuity so that more people get to see them? There are more people living in America and our cultural destinations have more visitors from all over the world.
Or is it only a net good when the UK keeps the priceless cultural heritage of other nations?
Re:Caring for the only known full kākāpō feather cloak in th...
by iamacyborg on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @03:07PM
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The US have more than enough artifacts from foreign cultures already, don’t you think?
Re:Caring for the only known full kākāpō feather cloak in th...
by AbrahamParangi on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @07:26PM
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The point is: if you were from a culture that was looted, rather than the one which did the looting, would you feel the same as you do now? That it was a net good that the looting had happened so that others might enjoy your priceless heritage as a trophy of conquest?
Re:Caring for the only known full kākāpō feather cloak in th...
by iamacyborg on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @06:06AM
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I’m not sure there are many folks still around from cultures that are thousands of years old…
Another helped return works that were looted by Napoleon during his campaigns (my grandmother had one of Canova’s Ideal Heads which the ancestor received as a gift from Canova for returning those artworks).
This stuff is pretty complicated, simply returning it is not possible, for example with ISIS purposefully destroying historical artefacts.
Having artefacts in foreign countries is, in my opinion, a net good. It exposes folks to cultures that they would not otherwise get to see.