“The pizza effect”: productive cultural appropriation/reinvention. Pizza is more-or-less an Italian-American invention. American tourists in Italy tried to find the authentic original, which didn’t exist, but entrepreneuring locals came to provide it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_effect …
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@joffe_p’s thesis has a delicious example: the recent translation of an American neo-tantric sex manual into Tibetan by a Tibetan for use by Tibetans, because the Tibetan tradition of tantric sex was suppressed by the state centuries ago and became effectively unavailable.pic.twitter.com/sTmktlr5dd
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Orientalism is a prime example philosophically. But many examples from there
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Does the Multiculturalist imperative (charges of cultural appropriation, etc) undermine what has historically been a fruitful evolution of pluralistic & inclusive mass culture — the “melting pot?” I mean ... that crust is mighty tasty.
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It’s like a weird tourist-driven cargo cult.
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