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CMV: Cultural appropriation is a ridiculous idea

Culture is simply the way a group of people do everything, from dressing to language to how they name their children. Everyone has a culture. 

It should never be a problem for a person to adopt things from another culture, no one owns culture, I have no right to stop you from copying something from a culture that I happen to belong to. 

What we mostly see being called out for cultural appropriation are very shallow things, hairstyles and certain attires. Language is part of culture, food is part of culture but yet we don’t see people being called out for learning a different language or trying out new foods. 

Cultures can not be appropriated, the mixing of two cultures that are put in the same place is inevitable and the internet as put virtually every culture in the world in one place. We’re bound to exchange.

Edit: The title should have been more along the line of “Cultural appropriation is amoral”
gpt
when people talk about cultural appropriation, it's one of two things, usually:

1. Members of a dominant culture *financially profiting* off of things created by another culture, while members of that other culture are not able to get nearly as much money from it.  

2. Members of a dominant culture take up something associated with another culture but are ignorant or disrespectful about it, and thus the item or practice in question is changed.  Let me use a dumbed-down example here.  Let's say dreadlocks are important spiritual symbols in Jamaican culture.  White fratboys might think dreadlocks look awesome and get their hair styled that way, completely not knowing about the spiritual stuff.  there is *nothing inherently bad about this, in and of itself*.  The problem comes when dreadlocks more and more catch on among fratboys, to the point that they're seen primarily as a fratboy thing... *even among Jamaican-Americans*.  White fratboys can innocently strip another culture's symbol of its meaning, but it's much less likely to happen the other way around.

One thing that's in common about both of these situations is that neither is based on "don't do that thing because it's not yours."

Also, both are mostly critical about *a set of affairs*, not the moral character of specific individuals.  If Jimmy is a white dude, the point is not whether or not Jimmy is a bad person, it's that there's an imbalance in cultural status.  White individuals learning to be careful about not taking up something they see willy-nilly is *a* way of addressing this problem, but it's not the central issue.