So I was scrolling through my facebook, and I noticed a post where a Korean illustrator, Manhwa Wu did a couple of illustrations of Western fairy tales and turn them Asian. It got me thinking with all the uproar about cultural appropriation, how come in this case there was not an uproar? Is it more acceptable for others to appropriate European culture, but no the other way around? Do white people get the right to complain about other's taking their culture?

As far as my opinion, I think as long as it is done with respect, and not mocking, people should be allowed to try different cultures. This whole debate about cultural appropriation gets extreme and divides people tbh. And I find these pictures gorgeous and interesting. What do other members think?


Snow White




Frozen




Alice in Wonderland




Beauty and the Beast




The Princess and the Frog



Little Red Riding Hood



The Snow Queen




Wild Swans




The Little Mermaid (the only Eastern/Asian fairtytale, so doesn't count)




http://www.boredpanda.com/asian-kore...n-na-young-wu/

Oh **** right off

Stop

Girl :facepalm: this is not cultural appropriation because most of these fairy tales didn't originate from westerners. Educate yourself before you post stupid threads that don't make sense

OMG I'm so offended

Nah but really these are sweet
I love alternate universe fan arts which is more a less what this is
Frozen and the snow Queen are the same thing tho

Ok uncalled for. Why can't we have an actual respectful discussion about this?

Besides the Little Mermaid (which I pointed out), these DID originate from Western Cuture/Europe. lol.

Um... you mean turned Korean. No one in Asia wears a hanbok except Korean women. Did you think people in Thailand or India dress like that?

But Korea is in Asia, so how am incorrect. If there were women wearing French clothing, I would be correct if I called it European clothes.

But it's only music but everyone is now taking rights as if its a property... I mean that mentality is ******** at its best.

These are amazing, tbh

I agree with the OP

And these are beautiful

Those are AMAZING.

The Little Mermaid is a Danish fairytale. Written by the same author of The Snow Queen, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Ugly Duckling.

Slay.

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.

Europe colonized the whole world and forced their cultures on everyone. They don't care about cultural appropriation.

Yeah this. The reason why it's cultural appropriation is because it's taking qualities and things that have been rejected by Eurocentric culture and then having that same Eurocentric culture spit it back, now being "cool" and "trendy". Obviously European things aren't rejected by Eurocentric culture. I know I'm not explaining this right, hopefully it makes sense.

Except China, Japan and Korea were never colonized by westerners. This is called globalization just like stuffs like silk, tea, gunpowder,koreanovelas, k-pop music, animes, videogames quarts wristwatches, bullet trains and mangas etc made great successes in the world.