Misremembering Madagascar as being in "West Africa" Confusing the Malagasy language with the divination practice of Sikidy Misspelling Sikidy "Sidiki" And then thinking one aspect of the sign was the sign's whole meaning
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But obviously the *concept* is much older, and known by people who aren't lefty academics Everyone knows that it's fucking cringe to fake some deep connection to a culture you don't have when it's a culture they care about
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To be fair, historically speaking, English people have not known that.
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I think I first heard the phrase in 1991 or 1992, when a friend of mine took a class on Lakota Religion and they read the grotesquely appropriative book "Medicine Woman" to learn about white appropriation of Native American cultures and religions.
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(We were both in our first year of college at the time.) It was a term that instantly resonated because it was identifying a phenomenon I was familiar with. (By the same token, I chewed out another student for mansplaining in 1994 but lacked the term "mansplaining," alas.)
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