Free yoga class cancelled - is guilty of "cultural appropriation"

[jimmy olsen]

Doesn't seem so. The Japanese were the ones behind the komino exhibition that was canceled due to protests.

Wow. Ok then.

I suspect a lot of the protesters were Koreans/Chinese using it as a vehicle to stick it to the Japanese.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Doesn't seem so. The Japanese were the ones behind the komino exhibition that was canceled due to protests.

Wow. Ok then.

I suspect a lot of the protesters were Koreans/Chinese using it as a vehicle to stick it to the Japanese.

Or just the typical wackos who slither out to get the emotional high that comes from self righteous chest beating. 

[Valmy]

I've made jokes to my yoga-enthusiast friends about how they're guilty of cultural appropriation.  I guess it's no longer a joke.

There is no joke too absurd about this topic that cannot become reality.

[Legbiter]

Tumblr has made the leap into meatspace. 

[Eddie Teach]

meatspace. 

Sounds like a gay dating site.

[Tonitrus]

Does this mean that the Native American art that I buy/collect is cultural appropriation...even though that when I am buying it, I am supporting those very same struggling artists that I am appropriating from?

How do I resolve this white man's paradoxical burden? 

[DontSayBanana]

Cultural Appropriation is not a particularly useful concept because it is so arbitrary and difficult to define. And of course it brings up the issue of who owns a culture and who doesn't which is equally arbitrary and difficult to define, and whomever this owner is can theoretically give or withdraw permission for "their" culture to be used in such way I presume?

I think this is a fight against tackiness and lack of respect for certain cultural practices and traditions but I think one can claim something is tacky and not authentic without insinuating some kind of atrocity has occurred.

This.  Couldn't the argument be made that most of the francophone Quebecois culture is "cultural appropriation" of French culture?

[Admiral Yi]

Does this mean that the Native American art that I buy/collect is cultural appropriation...even though that when I am buying it, I am supporting those very same struggling artists that I am appropriating from?

How do I resolve this white man's paradoxical burden? 

By the rules of cultural appropriation, you are allowed to buy or appreciate an expression of ethnic identity if it is created by a person of that ethnicity.

[CountDeMoney]

I've made jokes to my yoga-enthusiast friends about how they're guilty of cultural appropriation.  I guess it's no longer a joke.

Who wants to appropriate their dirty ass culture, chock full of rape-rape entitlement, sex-selective abortion, dowry murders and other nifty gender inequalities--especially since you've got your own kindler, gentler misogynistic culture thingy going on, amirite?

[CountDeMoney]

Does this mean that the Native American art that I buy/collect is cultural appropriation...even though that when I am buying it, I am supporting those very same struggling artists that I am appropriating from?

How do I resolve this white man's paradoxical burden? 

Take a big solid dump with maize in it.

[viper37]

Cultural Appropriation is not a particularly useful concept because it is so arbitrary and difficult to define. And of course it brings up the issue of who owns a culture and who doesn't which is equally arbitrary and difficult to define, and whomever this owner is can theoretically give or withdraw permission for "their" culture to be used in such way I presume?

I think this is a fight against tackiness and lack of respect for certain cultural practices and traditions but I think one can claim something is tacky and not authentic without insinuating some kind of atrocity has occurred.

English Canadians can speak French and eat poutine whenever they want, I won't feel offended by this cultural appropriation, I swear.

[Hamilcar]

Interestingly, the radical Hindutva types would agree that this is "cultural appropriation". I doubt the students would agree with many of the other views of the Hindutva types though.

[Martinus]

I think it's time to apply the concept of "cultural appropriation" to everything. Like, cars, sanitation, penicilin and rule of law. 

[garbon]

Interestingly, the radical Hindutva types would agree that this is "cultural appropriation". I doubt the students would agree with many of the other views of the Hindutva types though.

Cool?

[celedhring]

Damn, and here I was thinking that borrowing and cultural cross-fertilization was supposed to be a GOOD thing. Probably every single aspect of our culture has been borrowed from another culture at some point in history.

If there are vague "respect" issues at hand, look at that, not at the phenomenon of cultural borrowing itself.