Post by eldertree on Oct 7, 2016 19:52:51 GMT
As I've mentioned previously, wearing modern clothes like jeans or a business suit, using the internet or using English is not cultural appropriation but simply products of globalisation.
Modern tech things like tablets and smartphones are seen as status symbols and are also oftentimes required to pariticipate or succeed in the society in which people live. And importantly they are not items used for an aesthetic effect.
All these things are also not sacred ancient traditional aspects of ~Western culture~.
And so reverse cultural appropriation DOES NOT exist and people who use these examples as some sort of retort probably shouldn't be appropriating something in the first place since they must have entered that conversation and had to cite ~reverse cultural appropriation~ as a logically kaput defence.
You MIGHT have shred of a case if you find a non-White person wearing things like this, but even then this requires analysis on colonialism and historical power structures. Like why would a non-White wear that unless they were trying to appear impressively colonial
Modern tech things like tablets and smartphones are seen as status symbols and are also oftentimes required to pariticipate or succeed in the society in which people live. And importantly they are not items used for an aesthetic effect.
All these things are also not sacred ancient traditional aspects of ~Western culture~.
And so reverse cultural appropriation DOES NOT exist and people who use these examples as some sort of retort probably shouldn't be appropriating something in the first place since they must have entered that conversation and had to cite ~reverse cultural appropriation~ as a logically kaput defence.
You MIGHT have shred of a case if you find a non-White person wearing things like this, but even then this requires analysis on colonialism and historical power structures. Like why would a non-White wear that unless they were trying to appear impressively colonial
