The Sharpening

I absolutely understand cultural appropriation in terms of, for example, black culture in the USA.

But some things that you think are appropriation, are actually SHARING culture like we're neighbors coming together for dinner. Or even assimilation because not everyone cares for keeping culture "pure", and they want to merge things together to see what beauty can come out of it.

It's not the first time I've been accused of appropriating Palestinian culture by wearing a keffiyeh, or even criticized by my pronounciation or choice of terminology ("it's kufiyah, not keffiyeh" or "actually, it's shemagh"). And it's always white liberals with a savior complex saying this shit.

But guess what? Brazillians have been wearing keffiyeh's as an act of solidarity with Palestine since the fucking 70s. Longer than your ass has known what Palestine is, before it became trendy to care, longer than some of you have been alive.

I'm liberal but GOD, can you PLEAAASE tone down the social justice warrior setting for one second and actually consider that there may be things you are not aware of that play a part into why people take part in cultures that are not their own?

"Why are you cosplaying as slavic by eating pierogi everyday and always keeping kefir in the fridge?" Idk man, maybe it's because mass migration of slavs to brazil in the 1800s and 1900s greatly influenced culinary culture and mannerisms. We have a whole russian village in midwest Brazil because russian families wanted to leave São Paulo and have a space of their own. And slav presence has influenced midwest brazillian culture to the point where my accent sounds more russian than "stereotypically" brazillian to foreigners.