Saturday, December 12, 2020

Cultural Appropriation For Dummies

Found online, posted by a Millennial. This is so wrong!

In today's nutty, nonsensical environment, white people cannot wear their hair in braids, or God forbid, dreadlocks. These are clearly examples of what has been popularized as "cultural appropriation" by the generation known as Millennials, those poor misguided souls. They also believe that whites must not darken their skin though tanning or other means. Other no-nos include the wearing of kimonos by anyone but Japanese people and the use of an Indian headdress in a Halloween costume. ( And the use of the word "Indian" except when discussing people from India, but that's another story.)

Oddly enough, somehow it's acceptable for African-Americans to straighten their hair and color it blond, conditions appearing naturally only in Caucasians. And nobody seems to care that hundreds of thousands of white teens and young adults sport nose rings and ear plugs, two hallmarks of other cultures.

One has to agree with Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, who in 2017 described cultural appropriation as "nonsense" and said that, "there's no difference between cultural appropriation and learning from each other."

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