There seems to be quite a bit of very odd ideology in the middle of the review. Particularly weird is the mentioning of cultural appropriation which is not defined and has been applied to as frivolous things as wearing a kimono or making sushi. Behaviours like that and the mixing of different cultures is something that we should encourage, so I will just reproduce a past series of tweets on the subject.
There’s something which comes up on Twitter every so often and which we need to talk about; cultural appropriation. It’s completely fine! There is no pure version of a culture. How a culture was 10, 100 or 1000 years ago is not somehow more real or genuine than the one today.
Cultures are not static. They are forever changing, growing, dropping old parts and gaining new ones. We actually strive to change our cultures. We worked to change how women and gays are seen in our culture. And we work to change that in other cultures too.
There are items with significance in certain cultures but that doesn’t matter. Cultural rules only apply to those who are, or trying to be, part of a culture. When in Rome, we follow Italian laws but we don’t follow them if we are neither Italian nor in Italy.
We are all human and we shouldn’t allow ourselves to be separated because of our birthplace or parents. They are incidental and we should transcend them. You are not where you were born. You are not who your parents are. You are an individual.
We should all look at the cultures we were born into, keep what we like and discard what we don’t. Then we should look at other cultures, adopt what we like and discard what we don’t. We should not be trapped by the past but should make our own path.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
There seems to be quite a bit of very odd ideology in the middle of the review. Particularly weird is the mentioning of cultural appropriation which is not defined and has been applied to as frivolous things as wearing a kimono or making sushi. Behaviours like that and the mixing of different cultures is something that we should encourage, so I will just reproduce a past series of tweets on the subject.
There’s something which comes up on Twitter every so often and which we need to talk about; cultural appropriation. It’s completely fine! There is no pure version of a culture. How a culture was 10, 100 or 1000 years ago is not somehow more real or genuine than the one today.
Cultures are not static. They are forever changing, growing, dropping old parts and gaining new ones. We actually strive to change our cultures. We worked to change how women and gays are seen in our culture. And we work to change that in other cultures too.
There are items with significance in certain cultures but that doesn’t matter. Cultural rules only apply to those who are, or trying to be, part of a culture. When in Rome, we follow Italian laws but we don’t follow them if we are neither Italian nor in Italy.
We are all human and we shouldn’t allow ourselves to be separated because of our birthplace or parents. They are incidental and we should transcend them. You are not where you were born. You are not who your parents are. You are an individual.
We should all look at the cultures we were born into, keep what we like and discard what we don’t. Then we should look at other cultures, adopt what we like and discard what we don’t. We should not be trapped by the past but should make our own path.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~