it's quite remarkable how people actually affiliated with the cultures supposedly suffering from "appropriation" find the idea ridiculous and loudly declare that, over and over http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2144207/qipao-us-prom-wins-support-china-after-internet-backlash …
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the problem with this it's easy to veer off into “color-blind” territory from here. it's not a free cultural exchange because there's a steep power difference. (which is why nobody complains when there's e.g. Americans in Lederhosn at a beer fest because Germans aren't oppressed)
Then maybe the focus should be on fixing the "steep power difference" (call it what it is: blatant institutionalized racism, especially in the US) instead of on stifling cultural exchange.
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yeah of course (though I don't think it's a zro sum game, a lot of the talk about appropriation also talks about the racism that makes it bad...), until then it's not a free exchange though is my point.
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