If they say you appropriated someone else’s culture, then you must suffer the consequences. It doesn’t matter if you actually like tacos and sushi and used an original recipe. It doesn’t matter if it never occurred to you. It doesn’t matter if you were sincerely trying to show your respect. Now it doesn’t matter to the UPCWFCAV if you meant any disrespect. They’re mostly white, urban (and suburban), leftish Westerners with too much time on their hands and hankering for a suitable cause in which to sink their well-maintained teeth and inject some meaning into their lives. The UPCWFCAV will be on you in a flash.īut the UPCWFCAV aren’t made up of Japanese, Russian, Jamaican, First Nations or other natives protecting their culture from exploitation. If you dare pluck a balalaika and you’re not Russian, think of getting a Chinese-character tattoo and you’re not Chinese, make a taco and you’re not Mexican, wear dreadlocks and you’re not Jamaican, or admire a totem pole and you’re not First Nations… watch out. If you even so much as think of rolling seaweed and rice together and you’re not Japanese, watch out: the UPCWFCAV will have you skewered on social media or through indignant letters to the editor. Cultural appropriation, often framed as cultural misappropriation, is sometimes portrayed as harmful and is claimed to be a violation of the collective intellectual property rights of the originating culture. …the adoption or use of the elements of one culture by members of another culture. Wikipedia tells us that Cultural Appropriation is: Such is the state of the Cultural Appropriation fad: calling out those who deliberately or even inadvertently “appropriate” another culture has replaced the accusations of bigotry, racism, bullying, cyberbullying and misogyny among the Upright Politically Correct Watchdogs for Cultural Appropriation Violations (UPCWFCAV). But in the interim, people get pleasure out of pointing fingers and accusing others. Like food fads, political fads are steadfast until they aren’t. Just look at the uber-wingnut Food Babe and her gormless followers… You can ridicule chemtrails, flat earth, alien abductions, angels, ghosts, homeopathy and Bigfoot all you want – it won’t shake the faith of the true believers. You can present reams of evidence that debunks their core belief, but they won’t get off their bandwagon to investigate, let alone change their erroneous belief. Anti-vaccination faddists, for example, believe that vaccines cause autism. They’re not about analysis, research, and objectivity: they’re about being on the Latest Thing bandwagon.Īll fads teeter on a basic misapprehension sometimes it’s a fabrication, other times a misunderstanding, and other times simply a con. Political Correctness has of late given birth to Cultural Appropriation just like the gluten-free food fad gave rise to lectin-free food fad.Īll such fads are fuelled by the earnest desire of some people to avoid thinking and follow the crowd over the intellectual cliff. Like food fads, political fads wax and wane as the gnat-like attention span of their followers gets diverted by the Next Big Thing.
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