Discussion: Western Fairytails made Asian: cultural appropriation? - Page 3

TikiMiss

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Originally posted by TheLuckyOnes

OT: European culture gets appropriated all the time, the only difference is Europeans don't care. No one really cares if you speak in an Irish/British accent (but speak in a Jamaican or "southern" accent and people get pissed) or do Flamenco dancing or do ballet (but start twerking or doing various hip hop culture dances and people get pissed). Ive never known a european to care who shares their culture.

right?

Love how all these whiny bitches on tumblr and twitter act as though they personally invented Jazz, Hip Hop, and have been robbed

Like for Christ's sake, someone ELSE invented those genres and they just so happened to be black

uhoh-ohno

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Originally posted by TheLuckyOnes

European cultural has been the victim of this too. Lederhosens can be bought as costumes as well as jewish people costumes and stereotypical scottish and irish costumes. St Partick's Day is meant to be a religious holiday but is only celebrated by drinking and dressing up like leprechaun whereas in Ireland, it is still celebrated as a religious holiday (there are people who still drink in ireland but it hasnt lost it original meaning). Im aware that minorities have it worst when it comes to cultural appropriation but to say some European cultures dont experience it is not accurate

You either misread Ascension's comment or simply ignored the first half.

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Originally posted by Ascension

I wish that people would understand the root of most peoples' issues with cultural appropriation when it comes to people of majority/advantaged races and cultures adapting and using things from minority/disadvantaged races and cultures. It's not the fact that it's just being used, it's the things that happen as a result -- the erasure, the diminished cultural significance and disrespect (like people reducing the cultural garments of Native Americans to Halloween and party "costumes") -- the reverse will NEVER happen.

See, Ascencion's comment acknowledges a history and a power dynamic (majority/advantaged races and culture adapting and using things from minority/disadvantaged races and cultures). Your analogy is especially fallacious because last time I checked, it was not people of color's fault that St. Patrick's Day turned into a drinking holiday or that lederhosens and kilts are sold as costumes in stores. OK, people of European descent did that. That's different from what Ascension's talking about with cultural appropriation.

Are these drawings appropriating European fairy tales? Yeah, some of them are, but is there a history of Korean people oppressing Europeans? No, there isn't, nor is there any danger of the origins of most of those fairy tales being mistaken for anything other than European.