Lucem Ferre

The history of not just my country but European colonialism is what really motivated racial lines in culture, or more significantly, black culture. Otherwise you have cultural norms segregated by ethnicity or country so italian culture or japanese culture or Chinese culture but black people had their whole identities taken from them so for black Americans all they have as an identity is black culture. It's the only sense of identity they have left so naturally they are extremely protective of it especially in a country that consistently takes and builds off of it while trying to exclude them.

Majority of the claims are just whiny liberal college kids making something out of nothing for 'woke' points. Usually, as proven by the article, by white people. But then you have people like Post Malone who undeniable made a career on the back of black culture but doesn't want to be lumped in with the culture when it's inconvenient. I think a lot of white rappers have a strange condescending view on hip hop culture as a whole like they tend to be more holier than thou.

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The Batlord

Shut up, Cuckbert.

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Cuthbert

Make me.

Frownland

The problem here is that there's too much meme value packed into it.

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The Batlord

"I didn't garrote Krauts on D-Day to hear you talking that voodoo talk!" - Tom Hanks at Thanksgiving

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SGR

Whatever the case, cultural appropriation has resulted in a lot of great music that wouldn't exist if there was no cultural appropriation.

Lucem Ferre

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Cuthbert

Well said fella. Sense at last

Frownland

Stolen artifacts are a more concerning aspect of cultural appropriation than people preferring Macklemore to Nas imo.

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Marie Monday

Like I said I think generally taking from other cultures is a form of cultural exchange which is great, and I agree with Lucem's whiny liberal comment, but he also makes a good point about why taking from other cultures has to be paired with respect for that culture's people. You're a sweetheart, but you dismiss issues with racism far too easily.

So to give an example that you may relate to more: imagine chav culture would become fashionable among typical tory kids. So they'd dress like that etc. just for fun, but they'd still act just as snobbish. That would feel wrong, wouldn't it?

and that's another good point. Taking cool aspects from people's culture shouldn't actually take something away from them

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