The point of appropriation is adopting something and using it for something other than in the way its unintended to the culture or offensive to the culture.
Wearing a Sari at your Indian friends traditional Indian wedding
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Wearing a sari as a halloween costume
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Wearing a Sari at your Indian friends traditional Indian wedding
Wearing a sari as a halloween costume
Wearing a Jamaican flag and bantu knots to celebrate Jamaican carnival
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Wearing Jamaican flag and bantu knots to a costume party
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Wearing Jamaican flag and bantu knots to a costume party
Your white friends wearing asoebi to your trad
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Your white friends having an “African theme” party where they show up in African traditional outfits
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Getting henna on hands at a culturally appropriate celebration like a Mehndi
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Getting henna cos its edgy and cute
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Your white friends having an “African theme” party where they show up in African traditional outfits
Getting henna on hands at a culturally appropriate celebration like a Mehndi
Getting henna cos its edgy and cute
Cultural appropriation does not mean “people not of a culture participating in that culture”
It means “people not of a culture taking aspects of a culture and using it not as is used within its cultural context and/or offending people of that culture”.
It means “people not of a culture taking aspects of a culture and using it not as is used within its cultural context and/or offending people of that culture”.