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80 Fans!!!/Cultural Incorperation?

Posted by CIEIRMusic - August 11th, 2021


First of all big shout out to @ysporquix2 for being my 80th Fan. 20 to go to get 100.


Second of all this is a double post, because something has been bugging me for a while.

Over the past decade, there has been a wave of protesters against this thing they call Cultural Appropriation. In which they believe that if someone dresses like someone from a culture that isn't theirs or tries or acts like a culture they are not, that they are stealing from those who are of that culture. Now some of these are reasonable complaints and even go back to 100s of years, when Blackface similar offences was considered entertainment. However after hearing the recent stuff, that's been going on, most of them are just crybabies who have no damn clue what their own culture is let alone other people's cultures to know the difference, because they consider themselves "Modernized." For example. Going after a white person for wearing braids or dreadlocks, thinking that it's a black only thing. When in fact the Natives (North, South and Central) as well as the Nordics have been doing the same thing for over thousands of years. Not only is it cultural, but it's also a pragmatic choice because it prevents their hair from getting in the way during battles. So on top of accusing one of stealing their culture, they're actively stealing other cultures, by claiming to be the sole people behind it.


But that's just the tip of the iceberg according to these self-appointed leaders you can't do the following:

  • Put a tattoo on yourself in a language that isn't yours.
  • Dress as a character from your favourite media, if they aren't the same nationality as you.
  • Learn a language, out of fear you may screw it up or just use it to swear at them.
  • Learn martial arts, because you're Gwei Lo. (Something Bruce Lee fought long and hard to change.
  • Nor dress in a culture that isn't yours even if you were adopted by someone of that culture and were honouring who you thought were your parents.

This kinda crap makes me sick and it's grossly hypocritical. If you were to tell someone if their culture was that important to them, then why don't they express it more, they turn it on you and call you racist for trying to make them adhere to stereotypes. The whole thing is designed so that no one wins.


Now here's the thing. When you get right down to it, every single culture is not so different from each other. Every Continent has their natives, their customs, and similar religious practices like worshipping one or more than one God/Goddess. It won't be long until they clash with one and other as much as they clash with white people because they happen to have things similar to one and other and when whites are finally no problem for them, they'll spend centuries arguing over who came up with what first. Newsflash, you all did it at the same time and you just met each other after millennia of being separated from each other and rather than do the sensible thing and work together for a better tomorrow, you're finding more reasons to divide one and other.


My proposal is this. Give each other your cultures. Not by appropriation, but by appreciation and incorperation. Teach each other the differences and find out what you have in common. Who knows, with your combined strength you may come up with one big super culture. One that could shake the very core of this earth.


To make it short. Stop crying like bitches and start acting like human beings.


Stop appropriating each other and start incorporating each other.


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Congrats! Here, take another. :D

Thanks.

A very interesting point of view, I have always loved how other cultures imitate us (Mexicans) oh they speak Spanish in the Latin American style
It is not good to defend a culture if you do not know it thoroughly, I like the way you see this
By the way, congratulations!
Woooooo!!!

Thank you. I'm glad someone gets it. I'm just sick and tired of the world coming up with more excuses to divide us, by using the tools (Internet, social media etc) designed to unite said world.

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