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I have lost all my income, I’m a full time student having no luck looking for a job, I haven’t eaten in two days, I’ve had to send my son to his dad’s house on my week just so he can be fed and looked after, I am struggling. I hate to ask for help on the internet, but I have no familial support and I don’t have any friends. It’s so hard, and I just genuinely want to eat tonight. My paypal is paypal.me/bpdmum

If you want to message me instead, like, even friendly support will help me. Everything’s just so hard and idk what to do.

Cultural appropriation is “taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else’s culture without permission … when the source community is a minority group that has been oppressed or exploited in other ways.” - from Who Owns Culture?: Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law by Fordham law professor Susan Scafidi

It exists no matter how much you put your fingers in your ears and scream like a petulant child.

Also, the melting pot theory is no longer taught because it is inherently assimilationist, the salad or stew metaphor is what is used now.

http://www.tolerance.cz/courses/texts/melting.htm

Clearly you have never heard of cultural patrimony or intangible cultural heritage. Members of a culture collectively own their cultural traditions (both tangible and intangible), ancestral human remains, historical artifacts and national/natural monuments. That’s why the Navajo nation was able to get a trademark & copyrights on their name some iconic traditions and iconography. This is why indigenous Mexican weavers forming unions and taking collective legal action against Isabel marant, who plagiarized their designs.

You don’t get to decide for someone else what is or isnt flattering or harmful. You can’t claim to “love and respect” another culture and then simultaneously ignore, dismiss or mock the members of that culture when they’re telling you something is wrong. Then your entitlement and hypocrisy is obvious & youve shown you don’t actually give a shit about the culture, you just want to use the pretty traditions with no thought to the people they came from. Wanting to dress up as a Native American and then mocking and dismissing native Americans when they talk about dressing up as native being something that negatively affects them? That’s also racism. Cultural approbation itself increases discrimination:

“Two ways in which cultural appropriation can be harmful are easily identified. The first sort of harm is violation of a property right … The second sort of harm is an attack on the viability or identity of the cultures or their members. Appropriation that undermines a culture in these ways would certainly cause devastating and clearly wrongful harm to members of the culture … Other acts of appropriation potentially leave members of a culture exposed to discrimination, poverty and lack of opportunity.” - from The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation (edited by Young and Brunk)

I’m not set in the way I think at all, you’re just projecting your own feelings onto me. If you had reliable evidence to prove that cultural appropriation doesn’t exist or is harmless, I’d be more than willing to re-examine my position and change my mind. You expressing your emotions regarding a topic you obviously don’t know anything about is the opposite of reliable evidence.