I claim to see if there will be any difference if there is a cultural appropriation within two different cultures. Cultural appropriation is the adoption or make use of elements of one culture by members of a different culture. However, Cultural appropriation is not talked about much but it has an enormous impact towards any culture that is threatened by any culture making a parody of their culture. Although Cultures are no longer being celebrated as often as they are “Celebrated” from a different culture. In addition, There will be no problem with a culture, celebrating with a different culture.
The problem is that different dresses up as a culture for Halloween and for all varieties of dress parties. The supreme race is taunting the other culture/ the alleged weaker culture. The Native Americans are known for the weaker culture since they can’t execute anything about the higher culture taunting them. In conclusion, I chose my topic on Cultural Appropriation because I suffer offensive comments when another person dresses up as a Mexican for Halloween. Throughout this semester my learning objective was to define the meaning of cultural appropriation.
The history helped me show what other past altercations that occurred. Where does this cultural appropriation problem come from. When will it be ok to dress up as another culture. Cultural appropriation is the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of a different culture. Cultures would tend to clash sometimes, but cultural appropriation tend to have a superior side and a minority side. But over time, the concept of cultural appropriation has morphed into a parody of the original idea. We are now to get angry simply when whites happily imitate something that minorities do.
We now use the word steal in an abstract sense, separated from any kind of material value. “If the comments of any of the articles l’ve read recently are any indication, most people want to roll their eyes when they read the words “cultural appropriation. ” The term has become a boring buzzword that people scroll past while muttering about how we’re all too politically correct. Stop scrolling. Appropriation is about exploitation. It’s about a dominant group taking from the culture of marginalized groups without understanding the history or significance of the culture they are taking from. This quote somewhat represent all the comments made throughout the project.
You actually have to take time to read these meaningful comments. http://www. laineygossip. com/On-JustinBiebers-hair-and-cultural-appropriation/43562. “So if we think of the case against appropriation as a historical claim, rather than one grounded in any essentialism, then it may hold more weight for cultural criticism. It’s much easier to ground structural responses in this way. The case for slavery reparations can and should be made against the system, which could not reproduce itself, without the fortunes amassed by one culture for another’s gain.
Although the reparations can’t make up for the depths of the wounds, they are a step in the right direction. The ultimate aim has to be a society which is not dominated by the wealthy and by white men. ” This quote seems to turn everything around this quote from http://spectreonline. org/cultural-rethink/ makes you rethink what is trully the dominant culture. This quote has no facts upon it. The whites are definitely the most dominant culture. “Cultural appropriation is an entirely different matter. It has little to do with one’s exposure to and familiarity with different cultures.
Instead, cultural appropriation usually involves members of a dominant group exposing the culture of less privileged groups — often with little understanding of the latter’s history, experience and traditions. ” As I said earlier on the meaning of cultural appropriation is the dominance of a culture exploiting a less privileged group and it’s not always white people there are so many other cultures to blame for this problematic situation. http://racerelations. about. com/od/ diversitymatters/fi/What-is-Cultural-Appropriation-and-Why-IsIt-Wrong. htm
The idea of’cultural appropriation’ sums up everything rotten in today’s intensifying politics of identity. It’s fuelled by the borderline racist idea that to mix cultures is bad. It isn’t only yoga that’s getting it in its supple neck from these new cultural purists: white rappers like Iggy Azalea are slammed for appropriating black culture; students have been banned from wearing sombreros lest Mexicans feel mocked; non-black celebs who try out the cornrow hairstyle can expect to be Twitchhunted by mobs of these new cultural purists who think black people and white people should stick to their own cultural camps.
Last year, Zendaya wore locs to the Oscars. She looked absolutely stunning, yet Fashion Police Host and E! News correspondent Giuliana Rancic said, “I feel like she smells like patchouli oil … and maybe weed. ” These cultural appropriation examples have affected every single race at one point. Determining when the line between cultural diffusion and cultural appropriation has been crossed presents several challenges, starting with the difficulty of ascertaining the difference between the two. Sometimes it is obvious.
Native American headdress just for fashion is offensive, but it’s not always that clear. Insults are very subjective; one person may take grave offense to an action that another sees no issue with at all. Do we side with the offended person, or the one who doesn’t care? Additionally, in order to decide whether someone has misused traditional garb requires us to make assumptions concerning the ethnic and social background of the individual presumed to be guilty of appropriation. This is very unfortunate; as cultural appropriation is a very real issue.
When addressed incorrectly, it can worsen cultural and racial relations between by calling attention to the differences between populations and discouraging the exchange of ideas and customs between societies. It fosters a divisive mentality, prompting persons to retreat into the comfortable familiarity of their own social mores, never to attempt cultural immersion again. This brings to mind an excellent quote attributed to Mark Twain: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. ” Cinco de mayo recently passed by and all the humorous memes about cultural appropriation appeared throughout social media, such as a mexican saying to a white man it’s not ok to dress like that as the white person would reply cinco de mayo damn business. I must admit there were multiple memes of this stereotypical joke of a white man wearing sombreros and dehumanize the mexican holiday as if it was halloween 2. 0.
As was referring earlier that there are certain limits sometimes when coming across an appearance with another culture. “Miley Cyrus (nee Destiny Hope) twerked up a media sweat in 2013 with her Disney-cum-MTV good-girl-gone-bad routine. The narrative wasn’t new-before Miley, there was Britney, Christina, and Lindsay—but what was fresh was this: where those princesses channeled MTV’s ur-provocateur Madonna, Miley called upon Lil Kim. “In my past life, I feel like that was me, I feel like Lil’ Kim is like who I am on the inside,” said the white girl from Nashville.
And on Halloween, while countless boys and girls dressed in teddies like Miley’s at the VMAs, she donned a purple pasty in homage to her chosen soul sister. ” Miley Cyrus is accused of cultural appropriation because she is a white girl from Nashville and she is acting like a black girl from the section 8 homes. Miley is putting up a fake persona to gain popularity. Miley’s urban affectations fueled the frenzy around her. “Was her ratchet styling racist? ” the media asked, as a barrage of incendiary tweets were fired in reply.
Our thought at BULLETT: few questions that can be answered by an 8-ball are worth asking, and this wasn’t one of them. We wanted to know how. How is Miley’s styling racialized or not? How does it reflect fashion and culture at large? How does it make people feel, think, and act? How can we use this case to speak productively about race, class, and subcultural appropriation in fashion right now? Talking about race and talking about fashion are tricky propositions, but for different reasons.
Discourses around race are loaded, weighted with history and the import that there is still so much work to be done, whereas fashion speak is vaporous, bubbly with hyperbole (everything’s just fabulous! ). We wanted to respect the messiness that comes from discussions around race and fashion, because media stories rarely do. They’ll give you a soundbite, an argument, something digestible for your lunch break, something black and white. We want to publish a debate so dizzying, it’ll make you lose your appetite, because we’re hungry for change.
