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The United States is cultural appropriation personified.



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^^^I like how the girl asks why the person is filming her at the end, and as soon as he replies back "for everyone's safety" she attacks him and grabs the camera lol. I think the irony meter just exploded.



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NightDragon83 said:
^^^I like how the girl asks why the person is filming her at the end, and as soon as he replies back "for everyone's safety" she attacks him and grabs the camera lol. I think the irony meter just exploded.

She knew she done fucked up.



Augen said:
The United States is cultural appropriation personified.

Is that bad?



KLAMarine said:
Augen said:
The United States is cultural appropriation personified.

Is that bad?

I would argue that it is not a bad thing.  It gives us creative mixtures of culture in art, cuisine, thinking, etc.

This idea that culture is stagnant and should be segregated based on ethnic or racial lines feels at odd to the American experiment. 



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Augen said:
KLAMarine said:

Is that bad?

I would argue that it is not a bad thing.  It gives us creative mixtures of culture in art, cuisine, thinking, etc.

This idea that culture is stagnant and should be segregated based on ethnic or racial lines feels at odd to the American experiment. 

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Wait, suddenly we can only use styles and such from our own culture now?

Well the jeans she's wearing were invented by a Russian guy. She's not a Russian so she shouldn't be able to wear them since that's not part of her culture... It don't work just one way, lady



What the fuck did I just seen? That's disgusting. This woman is totally insane.



BraLoD said:
StarOcean said:
Wait, suddenly we can only use styles and such from our own culture now?

Well the jeans she's wearing were invented by a Russian guy. She's not a Russian so she shouldn't be able to wear them since that's not part of her culture... It don't work just one way, lady

Something like "our own culture" hardly even exists nowdays.
People are globalized in about anything, even your genetic codes comes from pieces of several parts of the world.
Not to say culture is bound and boardless, culture is not tangible and controlable, and on a lot of cases cultures overlapse and mix with other cultures to keep existing and changing all the time.

That on the video is just baseless hate fuelled by a severe amount of ignorance.

I'm well aware. I just had no idea this weird thing existed where people get offended and even get physical (as shown in the video) by people adopting the style of another culture. It's ridiculous 



BraLoD said:
StarOcean said:

I'm well aware. I just had no idea this weird thing existed where people get offended and even get physical (as shown in the video) by people adopting the style of another culture. It's ridiculous 

Yup, she thinks it's okay to mentally and even physically harass someone else because of something she thinks she has a birth right that he doesn't.

That's indeed ridiculous on so many levels that we can barely even believe we saw it happen XP

You're right. I can't believe it happened. It's such a random thing to get angry over! That's like saying black people can't wear glasses because white people invented them. It's just so unbelieviably dumb... x.x