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OftenBen  ·  2735 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cultural Appropriation Is, In Fact, Indefensible

There are many terms that are commonly used in modern English that have a vague sense of 'what it means' about them but no hard definition.

Cultural Appropriation is one of those. The people who take the concept seriously have no agreed, universal or even high-percentage consensus opinion on what it means. As I understand it, making sushi at home if you're not ethnically Japanese is cultural appropriation. Going out for sushi is also cultural appropriation. Children dressing in kimonos as part of an art exhibit praising Japanese history and design is also cultural appropriation.

It's a meaningless phrase used to make the person saying it feel superior to the object of their attention.