Cultural appropriation??

[NS Plover]

OK - I just changed my profile background to get ready for Lunar New Year - then it struck me - is this cultural appropriation?? Another question - if people of other cultures dress like Anne of Green Gables can we accuse them of that??

[Tony Twist's Thunderous Right]

Messaggio originale di sjohn29:

I'm going to have a race change, I want to be a person of colour!!

I am a person of color. That color happens to be white. When crayola stops making white crayons, I'll stop claiming to be a person of color.

[I deleted all my games]

Let me put my feelings in cultural appropriation like this. I prefer to buy pho from the bearded hipsters because they never gave me food poisoning unlike the authentic Vietnamese place has many many times.

[Radene]

Messaggio originale di 76561197986388730:

Let me put my feelings in cultural appropriation like this. I prefer to buy pho from the bearded hipsters because they never gave me food poisoning unlike the authentic Vietnamese place has many many times.

Why'd you go back to the same place after the second time?

[I deleted all my games]

Messaggio originale di Radene:

Messaggio originale di 76561197986388730:

Let me put my feelings in cultural appropriation like this. I prefer to buy pho from the bearded hipsters because they never gave me food poisoning unlike the authentic Vietnamese place has many many times.

Why'd you go back to the same place after the second time?

Forgiveness is my weakness

[Radene]

Messaggio originale di 76561197986388730:

Messaggio originale di Radene:

Why'd you go back to the same place after the second time?

Forgiveness is my weakness

Uh-huh. And I'm the pope.

[.: DBM :.]

celebrating a holiday, in-and-of-itself, isn't cultural appropriation.

anne of green gables didn't wear culturally-symbolic clothing, so no.

[abcd]

I think racially codifying the place that gave you food poisoning several times is weird.

I guess that makes sense if you have access to literally two pho places, but you're basing your entire cultural purview on like 8 people.

That's like saying a senator somehow manages to genuinely represent several hundred thousand people's opinion.

[Radene]

Messaggio originale di iP:

That's like saying a senator somehow manages to genuinely represent several hundred thousand people's opinion.

That's....the assumption behind the representative democracy. In theory. In practice, well. Things get dicey, don't they.

[abcd]

Messaggio originale di Radene:

Messaggio originale di iP:

That's like saying a senator somehow manages to genuinely represent several hundred thousand people's opinion.

That's....the assumption behind the representative democracy. In theory. In practice, well. Things get dicey, don't they.

Technically the model was based on the native american system where local tribes would elect a chief, and this chief would then go on to meet with other chiefs at a general pan-tribal meeting to discuss things which affected the continent as a whole. They often met in regional groups, then elected regional heads to represent their interests in the circle of national chiefs.

This is distinctly different from the house and senate system, which has the effect of codifying the electoral system into plebians and quite literal senators.

[Naedmi]

I'm sure only the Twitter brainlets care about cultural appropriation enough to tell white people they can't celebrate events that weren't made for them.

Ironically enough one woman on Twitter stated that people who weren't Asian couldn't celebrate the last Lunar New Year without getting consent from someone who was Asian, the top reply to that tweet was an Asian man giving everyone consent to celebrate Lunar New Year.

Most of the people causing the cultural appropriation drama don't match the skin pigment to properly address the problem, they're only being the victim for someone else, and that in itself is a racist concept.

[unca.alby]

Messaggio originale di iP:

Messaggio originale di unca.alby:

So do you also say "HuPerChildKind" instead of "ManKind"? Coz, you can't say "HuMANkind", and you can't say "HuPerSONkind", which leaves you with the nice safe "HuPerChildKind".

You know, the English language sucks, but it's all we got. At some point you're just going to have forgive people for being human (Oops, HuPerChild) without warping the language out of shape to fit the latest Offense Du Jour. There may be a "gender bias" in just saying "latino" and assuming everyone understands it to include both genders (the way we did 40 years ago), but the alternative is no better.

And besides, that ruins all the gags in all the fiction where the Prophecy is that "No Man Can Kill the Ringwraith!" and the guy who kills the Ringwraith -- is a girl! HAH! take THAT prophecy!

do you speak spanish?

No but my wife was born in Panama and is quite fluent.

And a friend of mine's wife was born in El Salvador. She just recently became a US citizen.

Furthermore, it's not "spanish", it's "Spanish". Show some respect.

then why do all these spanish speaking people support it?

How do you know? Did you take a survey? Did you ask my wife? I doubt it on both counts.

[mikO]

Messaggio originale di unca.alby:

Messaggio originale di iP:

do you speak spanish?

No but my wife was born in Panama and is quite fluent.

And a friend of mine's wife was born in El Salvador. She just recently became a US citizen.

Furthermore, it's not "spanish", it's "Spanish". Show some respect.

then why do all these spanish speaking people support it?

How do you know? Did you take a survey? Did you ask my wife? I doubt it on both counts.

He spelt Spanish like it doesn't mean much. How disrespectful... I wonder how he'd like it if we spelt "english".

[Bastila Shan]

Only racists call out cultural appropriation.

[abcd]

Messaggio originale di 𝕺𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗:

Messaggio originale di unca.alby:

No but my wife was born in Panama and is quite fluent.

And a friend of mine's wife was born in El Salvador. She just recently became a US citizen.

Furthermore, it's not "spanish", it's "Spanish". Show some respect.



How do you know? Did you take a survey? Did you ask my wife? I doubt it on both counts.

He spelt Spanish like it doesn't mean much. How disrespectful... I wonder how he'd like it if we spelt "english".

exactly as indifferent as I am about not capitalizing the first letter of my sentence.

I can see you don't really care about language politics, and that's a very comfortable position to have.

Enjoy it.

[Radene]

Messaggio originale di iP:

Messaggio originale di 𝕺𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗:

He spelt Spanish like it doesn't mean much. How disrespectful... I wonder how he'd like it if we spelt "english".

exactly as indifferent as I am about not capitalizing the first letter of my sentence.

I can see you don't really care about language politics, and that's a very comfortable position to have.

Enjoy it.

So if you don't respect your own language, that means it's okay not to respect the others? The other person clearly took offense to your "whatever" attitude when talking about their language.

Shouldn't you apologize?