murder, poverty and homelessness. Complaints about slang and cultural appropriation usually come back to the same point: As long as LGBT people face discrimination, the use of their slang is tasteless at best, and harmful at worst. Yet, can LGBT people lay sole claim...
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Am I engaging with a piece of ancient culture as if it's new? Am I neglecting to credit the source of my inspiration? If you can safely answer "no" to all of those questions, you will probably be able to avoid cultural appropriation. Still, think of it this way: If you feel the...
Cultural appropriation is the use of items or other elements of a non-dominant cultural tradition to reinforce the stereotypes or leads to discrimination and does not respect their original purpose or credit their origins. Also, it includes the unauthorized usage of parts of their cultural heritage...
And, should we think of the appropriation in terms of offense, or a harm? In such cases it might be argued that while offensive, and prima facie wrong, cultural appropriation is not a matter for law. In contrast to such a position, I do think of cultural appropriation as question of la...
Or is it? A California judgehas ruledthat Yoga in a public school’s fitness program does not amount to teaching children religion because it isrooted in American culture. To me, the whole debate on whether Yoga teaches religion or not, is blatant cultural appropriation of Yoga....
aAt the same time, there is more at stake in the appropriation of names that designate sacrosanct Western cultural icons than a form of branding. The pastiche names are actually the product of careful marketing that capitalizes on the aspirations and psychographics of a nascent middle class. As...
then, thatIsle of Dogscan't help getting in its own way. Even as it pleads with the audience to think of the pups, the movie struggles to portray its actual human characters as, well, human. As a result, the film undermines its own messaging about empathy and cross-cultural understandin...
Billie Eilish notches her third Album Of The Year nomination in a row withHIT ME HARD AND SOFT, making her the first artist to have their first three albums nominated in the Category. Jack Antonoffalso achieved a back-to-back AOTY feat, as it's th...
Cultural appropriation is defined many ways, but one such definition is an adoption of minority culture by members of the dominant culture. It’s also adopting a culture without fully respecting it. To ignore the difference between Mars’ music and say,Katy Perrywearing cornrows,Madonnadressing li...