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CMV: Cultural "appropriation" is not an inherently bad thing

To clarify I put appropriation in quotations because I'm not sure what to call it. People call almost everything cultural "appropriation" now for reasons I cannot understand.

Adopting different aspects of other cultures is not a bad thing, despite what individuals online might say about it being cultural appropriation. Culture is MEANT to be shared, meant to evolve and be integrated into your own, etc. There are obvious times when one might take an aspect of another cultural and completely disrespect it. Ex. Turning a cultural, modest article of clothing into something revealing and sexy with no understanding of the meaning and values attached to the original article. That would be an example of cultural appropriation in a bad way. 

On the other hand, if someone wants to wear something from another culture, use a name from another language (while knowing the meaning because otherwise that's embarassing), etc. We do things such as try eachothers food without a problem, why not go any further than that? What is the harm? There is a grey area where people may do something harmless (white people wearing dreadlocks), and black people finding it disrespectful because they are typically looked down on for their hairstyles. 

So in conclusion, cultural appropriation is not inherently bad. If I am misunderstanding the meaning of the word, it does not take away from the fact it is thrown around way too heavily and for things that are not bad at all.
gpt
What you're saying is that utilization of cultural objects isn't always _cultural appropriation_.  To appropriate them is always bad, but simply to use them or display them is not.

You're lost in semantics here I'd say, but we use the term "cultural appropriation" to denote that something is the bad version of the things you're describing, not all of them.