IMO: cultural appropriation as typically defined is really just cultural exchange, which is broadly a good thing. When people argue against it *well*, they use examples that are cultural exchange PLUS something bad — disrespect, cruel intent, actual harm (intended or not), etc.
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I think that having these discussions without splitting cultural exchange from [disrespect/harm/etc] has created a situation where one extreme side is basically arguing for cultural segregation & the other downplays disrespect/harm toward people from other cultures. Not good.
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The conversation I *wish* we were having would be about how deceptively tricky it is to see what might be disrespectful toward or harmful to people with a culture you know little/nothing about, and how to share all our cool cultural stuff in a way everyone gets to feel good about
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Also missing are the positive effects from cultural exchange. The best I've read on the overall subject is https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Destruction-Globalization-Changing-Cultures/dp/0691117837/ … by
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Yeah. Minimizing cultural exchange would be genuinely catastrophic
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