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Is Cultural Appropriation Always Wrong? - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Sermon on the Mount.
  • In June, young Asian-Americans protested when the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as an accompaniment to a lecture called ‘‘Claude Monet: Flirting With the Exotic,’’ invited visitors to pose next to Monet’s ‘‘La Japonaise’’ while wearing a matching kimono. And South Asian women, objecting to the fad for ‘‘ethnic’’ wear at music festivals like Coachella, continued a social-media campaign to ‘‘reclaim the bindi,’’ sharing photographs of themselves, their mothers and grandmothers wearing bindis, with captions like ‘‘My culture is not a costume.’’’
  • The line between cultural appropriation and cultural exchange is always going to be blurred,’’
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  • ‘‘We as black people have to come to grips that hip-hop is a contagious culture,’’ Questlove, the drummer and co-founder of the Roots, said last year in an interview with Time magazine in which he defended Iggy Azalea, the white Australian rapper derided for (among other things) affecting a ‘‘Southern’’ accent. ‘‘If you love something, you gotta set it free.’’
  • But it has never been easier to proceed with good faith and Google, to seek out and respect context.
  • Social media, these critics suggest, allow us too much access to other people’s lives and other people’s opinions to plead ignorance when it comes to causing offense.
  • Seen in this light, ‘‘appropriation’’ seems less provocative than pitiably uninformed and stale.
  • ‘The moment you say a male American writer can’t write about a female Pakistani, you are saying, Don’t tell those stories. Worse, you’re saying: As an American male you can’t understand a Pakistani woman. She is enigmatic, inscrutable, unknowable. She’s other. Leave her and her nation to its Otherness. Write them out of your history.’’
  • ‘‘there would be fewer wars’’ if more novelists allowed themselves to imagine themselves into other cultures.
  • t’s a seductive if utterly unverifiable claim.
  • Benjamin McKeown on 26 Feb 19
     
    "Sermon on the Mount."
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