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HelpRe: Honest Question About Cultural Appropriation and Names
in reply to a message by Raya
What would you do if one person told you it was horrible cultural appropriation and 35 told you that it is perfectly fine? Just wondering. It is definitely something to think about but there are people in every community that take offense easily and there are even German people who believe that it is bad to give your child a French name (France is our neighbor and in the German areas close to France many people speak French and there are many cultural similarities, traditions, dishes etc.) and they can have their opinion of course but that doesn't mean that the other people agree with them or that it is really a bad thing to do. Just a random example.
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What would you do if one person told you it was horrible cultural appropriation and 35 told you that it is perfectly fine?
I still wouldn't use it.
I have no Native American heritage, so I wouldn't feel like it was MY name to use. And just because a lot of people say it's okay to do something, that doesn't necessarily make it okay, in my mind.
Of course everybody is free to do what they want, but this is how *I* feel.
I still wouldn't use it.
I have no Native American heritage, so I wouldn't feel like it was MY name to use. And just because a lot of people say it's okay to do something, that doesn't necessarily make it okay, in my mind.
Of course everybody is free to do what they want, but this is how *I* feel.
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That's fine and I respect that but I personally would make a different decision especially with the name being in the top 100 in a European country in two spelling variants. Someone will always disagree with something you do and use even if most people are fine with it.
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