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Help[Opinions] Re: Cultural appropriation
in reply to a message by Francisinfp5w4
I agree with Mirfak.
I personally am skeptical about the whole idea of "cultural appropriation" being a bad thing. The examples that are truly offensive and should be avoided, like blackface on stage or naming sports teams "Indians" or "Braves", aren't just taking something from another culture but deliberately mocking it, or treating an ethnic term in the same way one would the name of an animal species. Simply giving your child a name from another language or culture, or using a word from another language as a name, isn't the same thing.
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I personally am skeptical about the whole idea of "cultural appropriation" being a bad thing. The examples that are truly offensive and should be avoided, like blackface on stage or naming sports teams "Indians" or "Braves", aren't just taking something from another culture but deliberately mocking it, or treating an ethnic term in the same way one would the name of an animal species. Simply giving your child a name from another language or culture, or using a word from another language as a name, isn't the same thing.
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