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CMV: Culture appropriation is incredibly stupid and negatively impacts equality movements

This is literally the dumbest shit i have ever heard. Culture Appropriation is negatively impacting further development towards equality if you ask me.

Like braiding your hair is suddenly offensive to Africans who 'had it first'. And that you are stealing their culture by taking minor shit like hairstyles, i just don't understand how that could be taken as offensive, if anything i would take it as a compliment that they like and enjoy my culture! I am British and i don't think i could care less if someone decided to use my culture in whatever way they want.

I don't get why we can't all use each others culture and embrace it together. If we truly wanted equality why are we attacking people who like bits of other cultures and want to use it themselves? 

More bullshit examples i have seen are:

Taking another country's food dish and adding your own twist to it. Eg when a white chef took a twist on pho, a Vietnamese dish, apparently appropriating their culture?!

Offence over music, if an artist uses different styles of voice or dancing that come from other cultures, is somehow wrong and offending to the culture. Or if a remix of a 'traditional song' is somehow also considered offensive.

When people use other cultures clothing/fashion, eg hennas, braids as i said before, and other accessories.

I just don't get why we can't all just appreciate other cultures and use them in our everyday life, without everyone assuming it is done to cause chaos and offence.

It goes without saying mocking another culture is too far and shit like that, but general use that has no means of wanting to be offensive is just stupid, idiotic and negatively impacts societies where there are many cultures.
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appropiation is usually the most literal one, where companies take something and try to own it or sell it. Examples would be Disney trying to trademark day of the dead or european fashion companies taking indigenous people's designs.

As a mexican i dislike how beer companies have taken one of our holidays and turned it into a day of drinking in USA and how they are ignorant to what it is, also i don't really care for their taco bell or wathever. The only thing is that being USA that shit goes international and gives a false idea to our culture. This doesn't just happen when a foreigner does it, many traditions are being "comercialized" and being changed to be able to be sold.

So basically, while the idea you can't cook something or wear/style your hair one way because "you're not x" is baffling and dumb, there are times you should probably not contribute to what i would call "culture consumism". For example you as a brit are free to cook mexican food and dress like a mariachi and celebrate day of the dead as anyone else, but if british *companies* started selling "day of the dead" things with a very different meaning it would be similar to  what people call "appropiation"