Like I&aposll read an article that says yoga is cultural appropriation and I&aposll read one that says certain Halloween costumes are cultural appropriation.
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Beckham hasn't yet responded to commenters' concerns over cultural appropriation.
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In its proliferation, the term cultural appropriation has become charged.
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VICE: Your viral comments sparked a conversation around cultural appropriation.
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Well, actually that mislabeling is exactly where cultural appropriation happens.
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Thanks to everyone participating in this act of (((cultural appropriation))).
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Schumer was vocally accused of cultural appropriation for her parody.
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Many were saying that Beyoncé's performance regalia is cultural appropriation.
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For this is an essay in defense of cultural appropriation.
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What is cultural appropriation, and why is it so controversial?
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Both have been accused of cultural appropriation in the past.
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The work raises questions about authenticity, cultural appropriation, and ownership.
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When Beyoncé gets in trouble for cultural appropriation...nobody is safe.
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Like Parrot, I believe that cultural appropriation is not inherently bad.
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If it's not, let the cultural appropriation/gentrification witch hunt ensue.
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The film's arguments against cultural appropriation feel more apologetic than sincere.
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An admission of dishonesty or potentially unfair benefits or cultural appropriation.
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There are a couple of ways of looking at cultural appropriation.
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However, the cultural appropriation movement opposes any depiction of another culture.
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Who knew that God could be a victim of cultural appropriation?
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Concerns about cultural appropriation in Halloween costumes have become mainstream recently.
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The problem with cultural appropriation is that the appropriator lacks context.
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Spears tongue is out, presumably to berate Leo for cultural appropriation.
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Lately, however, Lepage has been embroiled in debates around cultural appropriation.
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The debate, like most others about potential cultural appropriation, is fraught.
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On the Runway The debate over cultural appropriation and fashion intensifies.
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Reports of the letters sparked outrage and accusations of cultural appropriation.
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If cultural appropriation were wrong, Ashanti people shouldn't be wearing it.
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And why does the practice of such cultural appropriation still endure?
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Others worry about cultural appropriation, or turning their traditions into kitsch.
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Shriver's real targets were cultural appropriation, identity politics and political correctness.
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British model Emily Bador has some sincere regret for her cultural appropriation.
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Are these artists, then, merely engaging in an act of cultural appropriation?
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Zac Efron shows off dreadlocks on Instagram, sparks accusations of cultural appropriation .
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" Some commenters criticized Blair for wearing the accessory, calling it "cultural appropriation.
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What's intrigued you most about the dialogue you've sparked around cultural appropriation?
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What can black people do as consumers do to fight cultural appropriation?
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The conversation around cultural appropriation needs to evolve with that in mind.
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Some traditionalists might call that cultural appropriation, but at least it pays.
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We have cultural appropriation of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community.
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This led to many commentators to accuse the video of cultural appropriation.
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So, how is sporting a du-rag an example of cultural appropriation?
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I called up several experts on cultural appropriation and got their take.
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What do you think about Demi's response to the cultural appropriation accusations?
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Cultural appropriation is easy to spot when it's actually on someone's body.
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Katy Perry is the latest celebrity to be accused of cultural appropriation.
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Do you think this kind of work is connected to cultural appropriation?
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Notably, motivation or message seems irrelevant to the definition of cultural appropriation.
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Worst example of cultural appropriation ever: LGBTs stole the rainbow from Mario.
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Letters Is it wrongful "cultural appropriation" when authors invent characters unlike themselves?
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You have to have every nuance of cultural appropriation in your head.
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Almost all the Latino students objected on the ground of cultural appropriation.
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Permission plays a major role in whether an act constitutes cultural appropriation.
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I was accused of cultural appropriation of Western culture, which is insane.
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Prince was like a modern day Elvis, only without the cultural appropriation.
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Film Club What is the difference between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation?
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But the looming possibility of cultural appropriation has the traditional skiers nervous.
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But embedded in the idea is a certain amount of cultural appropriation.
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Central to both cases are issues of cultural appropriation and artistic freedom.
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The point is that "cultural appropriation," as a diagnosis, is decidedly unhelpful.
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But that is because of political and economic exploitation, not cultural appropriation.
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But I don't think that the enforcers of cultural appropriation get it.
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Heated discussions about cultural appropriation are not, of course, limited to food.
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Refinery29's Channing Hargrove recently suggested that this trend is cultural appropriation.
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I think it&aposs horrible that we&aposre starting off with cultural appropriation.
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Opportunities to dress down cultural appropriation seemed to propagate as quickly as weeds.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Fashion has an ongoing cultural appropriation problem.
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Kloss's latest controversy isn't the first time she's been condemned for cultural appropriation.
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The attire prompted an outcry over "cultural appropriation"—an elastic, ill-defined gripe.
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So a Latina writer from "Marie Claire" wrote that this is cultural appropriation.
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This example proves the necessity of cultural appropriation studies in the first place.
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Like all cultural appropriation issues, it's about giving credit where credit is due.
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"This cultural appropriation stuff is starting to really make me crazy," she said.
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Except for when it borders on cultural appropriation — Bieber, we're looking at you.
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Her tweets went viral worldwide and provoked an enormous debate about cultural appropriation.
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Those against cultural appropriation inhabit a particular psychological attitude that is worth examining.
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The reason behind such limitless forms of cultural appropriation is its limitless meaning.
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By widely sharing these photos, I was engaging in and normalizing cultural appropriation.
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She also adds that cultural appropriation is a relatively new subject for her.
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"The tone-deaf '#40Ounce' marketing is cultural appropriation at its worst," he tweeted.
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In other words, cultural appropriation might cause outrage, but it will not stop.
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" Cultural appropriation, she said, expresses "ignorance or aggression," while cultural exchange suggests "generosity.
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In Australia, the French brand is being accused of cultural appropriation and ignorance.
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In discussing the origin here, there are some questions about cultural appropriation, too.
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As cultural appropriation has garnered more attention, some artisans from minority groups, such as Native Americans, have said that it's harder for them to sell their wares to the public because consumers don't want to be accused of cultural appropriation.
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Instead, Sabrina's character unknowingly dips into a recent trend of real-world cultural appropriation.
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Star, who is no stranger to controversy, is now being criticized for cultural appropriation.
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This is not the first time Kardashian West has been accused of cultural appropriation.
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It's part of the reason hairstyles are often the most obvious cultural appropriation offenses.
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Cultural appropriation is extremely common — and, fortunately, so is being called out for it.
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Workers at Cloud Nine superstore learn about the perils of cultural appropriation on Halloween.
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"Worst example of cultural appropriation ever: LGBTs stole the rainbow from God," he wrote.
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This is far from the first time Perry has been accused of cultural appropriation.
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Except Bruno Mars credits the originators, which is a core issue with cultural appropriation.
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She comes from a family that can't untangle themselves from claims of cultural appropriation.
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It's cultural appropriation at it's very core and honestly just makes you look dumb.
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Jeremy is a perfect case study of how not to go about cultural appropriation.
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It's Miley's history of cultural appropriation that made her so susceptible to this claim.
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Odd as it may sound, I once loved cultural appropriation—and I wasn't alone.
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He takes on white privilege, cultural appropriation, and attacks against former President Barack Obama.
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In his acceptance speech, Mr. Beatty waded into the raging debate about cultural appropriation.
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It comes with a side of controversy about race, class, cultural appropriation and gentrification.
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It's quite possible that we've collectively moved past strong verbal arguments against cultural appropriation.
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She also spent the year fighting off critics who accused her of cultural appropriation.
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Then again, that problem in our society isn't limited to discussion of cultural appropriation!
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Try Again: MAC's been accused of cultural appropriation for its new collection, Tribe Vibe.
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Watch the three talk about Thanksgiving, cultural appropriation of chopped cheese, and more above.
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On the Runway Where is the line between culturally appropriate dress and cultural appropriation?
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As a container, they're also acting as an articulation of cultural appropriation and hacking.
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We've seen some pretty tough stuff come up recently around the cultural appropriation debates.
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The accusation of cultural appropriation is a secular version of the charge of blasphemy.
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Charges of cultural appropriation have ebbed and flowed since the work's premiere in 1935.
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The award show was a veritable orgy — not of sex, but of cultural appropriation.
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The problem with cultural appropriation is that it's the appropriator who defines what's acceptable.
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Much has been written already about the line between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation.
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The Kardashian-Jenners have previously found themselves at the center of cultural appropriation controversiesIn 2017, sisters Kylie and Kendall Jenner faced accusations of cultural appropriation and plagiarism over a $150 handbag they released that was in the shape of a Chinese takeout box.
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But once the collective internet sober thought kicked in, questions about cultural appropriation were unavoidable.
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A lot of salient points have been made about Isle of Dogs and cultural appropriation.
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Politely, Mr Niedzviecki admits that his defence of cultural appropriation was "a bit tone deaf".
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Kim Kardashian West is changing the name of her Kimono shapewear after cultural appropriation backlash.
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On March 8, Seren Sensei went viral with her cultural appropriation accusations against Bruno Mars.
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What is the economic impact that cultural appropriation has on black artists and black entrepreneurs?
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When Pottermore published Rowling's piece on Native American wizards, readers accused her of cultural appropriation.
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The country's new name, Northern Macedonia, is designed to appease Greek sensitivities about cultural appropriation.
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It is not as though the concept of cultural appropriation has fallen out of use.
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My final verdict: I think claims of cultural appropriation are a bit of a reach.
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"La Gracia is a prime example of cultural appropriation, not appreciation," Castillo insisted to MUNCHIES.
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A musical production of the Aida opera has been cancelled after complaints of "cultural appropriation".
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Amandla Stenberg even made an entire primer on cultural appropriation, linked here for your convenience.
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In addition to social justice issues, cultural appropriation plays an important role in Fragua's work.
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Jenner is now being accused of cultural appropriation — or stealing cultural staples without offering credit.
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The blonde corn rows she sported in the shoot sparked controversy over cultural appropriation claims.
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The gesture was not only clumsy, it opened her up to charges of cultural appropriation.
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Those stories generated controversy with accusations of cultural appropriation and sexism (some levied by R29).
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How does cultural appropriation change, if it does at all, when white people aren't involved?
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Her art depicts everything from cultural appropriation to gora ("white") boyfriends and skin whitening creams.
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You tread a fine line with cultural appropriation, between what is right and what isn't.
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The most important debate I experienced about him was on the issue of cultural appropriation.
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Cultural appropriation is not a modern concept; it has existed as long as culture itself.
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Campaigns against cultural appropriation reveal the changing meaning of what it is to challenge racism.
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Cultural appropriation is the wrong descriptor; perhaps it should be cultural representation, or cultural depiction.
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Shortly after receiving backlash from fans who accused her of cultural appropriation, Jenner deleted it.
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At that less enlightened time, no one complained about Potts' cultural appropriation of Asian culture.
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But divorcing mindfulness practices from their origins can be a form of cultural appropriation, i.e.
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It's unclear whether cultural appropriation is a concept that has come to Bad Gyal's attention.
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White Tears, Hari Kunzru's dark, phantasmagoric fifth novel, is about the cultural appropriation of black music.
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In my heart of hearts, I felt that cultural appropriation happened because people didn't know better.
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Seren Sensei: Cultural appropriation is a system of white supremacy, especially here in the United States.
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In this current era of pop music, "cultural appropriation" is no longer a particularly useful term.
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In a December 2017 interview with the Fader, she lashed out against charges of cultural appropriation.
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Vogue and Kendall Jenner have both come under fire once again for accusations of cultural appropriation.
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For example, there's a huge conversation around cultural appropriation, so displacement is not a neutral term.
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Later, she received additional backlash from a dedicated stan account due to claims of cultural appropriation.
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But cultural appropriation is more than just a cheap, straw imitation of the wide-brimmed hat.
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Beyond plagiarizing — which is huge issue by itself — there is also the problem of cultural appropriation.
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The roundtable, with Wilmore and show contributors Rory Albanese and Robin Thede, focused on cultural appropriation.
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Otherwise, it feels like cultural appropriation, which is a major concern when I eat pouch food.
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"Since when is drawing inspiration from a fashion icon like Rihanna considered cultural appropriation?" reads another.
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Unfortunately, there isn't much we can do about the cultural appropriation of Black traditions and practices.
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The term "cultural appropriation" is a descriptive one, but not all forms of appropriation are misappropriation.
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In some ways, his argument is a light echo of conversations across Canada about cultural appropriation.
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The restaurant, called Lucky Lee's, has become the latest front in the debate over cultural appropriation.
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Critics of cultural appropriation insist that they are opposed not to cultural engagement, but to racism.
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I do have a problem with cultural appropriation, which does run rampant in the witchcraft community.
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Rather, the French brand is being accused of cultural appropriation, exploitation of the underprivileged and ignorance.
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I have tried to explain cultural appropriation to my family before, but they think I'm oversensitive.
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Groff should be commended for navigating the troubled waters of cultural appropriation without hitting a reef.
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EDWARD ROSENFELDNEW YORK To the Editor: Let it be known that all translation is cultural appropriation.
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In recent years, however, anxieties have grown around white artists who commit acts of cultural appropriation.
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I wanted to see the spreading of this subculture, and asked myself: Is this cultural appropriation?
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Cultural appropriation also comes into play when considering who gets to access wellness products or practices.
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Doctor Strange's origin played like Iron Man with more cultural appropriation and, somehow, a thinner love story.
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After closing out New York Fashion Week on Thursday, Marc Jacobs is under fire for cultural appropriation.
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Despite how fervently and ubiquitously the topic is discussed, no one actually likes to discuss cultural appropriation.
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More people today "know" about cultural appropriation than when I started writing about it ten years ago.
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I am not the first one to argue that outrage toward cultural appropriation is a red herring.
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When it came out that is was two white, suburban people, everyone realized it was cultural appropriation.
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Before the cultural appropriation cards are drawn, there's more history to the getup than meets the eye.
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People are calling it 'cultural appropriation' as if her father isn't of Irish and NATIVE AMERICAN decent.
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Show after show, I hold my breath just waiting for the inevitable cultural appropriation to go down.
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After all, some of the best food in the world comes to us thanks to cultural appropriation.
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They have been outspoken against cultural appropriation, daring to call out everyone's favorite Jenner on social media.
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We turned the tables on cultural appropriation when we ate at a Chinese gastropub called Deli Burger.
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In reality, most saw it as trying to hard at best, or as cultural appropriation at worst.
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It critiqued white tears and cultural appropriation long before they became subjects for viral social media memes.
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The argument that minorities are allowed more leverage when it comes to cultural appropriation clearly isn't true.
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If the public is more aware of cultural appropriation, why does it persist in such troubling ways?
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Cyrus has had some ups and downs, both musically and image-wise, including dabbling in cultural appropriation.
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As Asian-American rappers, have you had to face any of your own accusations of cultural appropriation?
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" The show also tackled sensitive themes like cultural appropriation, resulting in Rose's favorite episode, "Dances with Ignorance.
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"Where I live and grew up, cultural appropriation is not a problem and an issue," she explains.
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Kim Kardashian West's speaking out about the cultural appropriation backlash she faced when she's worn cornrow braids.
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Dior is facing accusations of cultural appropriation after releasing a video clip to promote its fragrance Sauvage.
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The person after that went with the new Ariana Grande album, occasioning a discussion of cultural appropriation.
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The brand was originally named Kimono, a traditional Japanese garment, which led to accusations of cultural appropriation.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the kind of dress that inspired a cultural appropriation uproar.
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The standard complaints about cultural appropriation, point of view and the ethics of aestheticizing war all apply.
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She debuted her Bo Derek-esque braids over the weekend, and got some flak for cultural appropriation.
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Mr. Lewis said some locals had criticized the Krewe du Kanaval as an act of cultural appropriation.
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" In the context of American cultural production, Ms. Lloyd argues, "it's cultural appropriation all the way down.
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It was not removed primarily because of cultural appropriation, according to all news reports, and Dakotas themselves.
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Themes of gentrification and cultural appropriation center the work, all boldly delivered by Ms. Segarra's billowing vibrato.
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But it also drew criticism on social media as a particularly cringe-worthy example of cultural appropriation.
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Ms. Chiha did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the claims of cultural appropriation.
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Others accused Madonna, who was wearing a black caftan and her hair in braids, of cultural appropriation.
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A case for why the idea of "cultural appropriation" is harmful and should be binned Accusations of cultural appropriation, such as when a teenager wears a Chinese-inspired dress to a school prom or "non-Mexican individuals" celebrate Cinco de Mayo, are guaranteed to stir up Twitter outrage.
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People have already taken to Twitter to call out the grocery chain for gentrification, cultural appropriation, and more.
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Cultural appropriation continues to be Schumer's "thing," so I guess if it ain't broke, don't fix it...right?
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There's a fine line between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation, and not everyone agrees where that line is.
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This reinforces that cultural appropriation has contributed to the disembodiment of black and marginalized bodies in contemporary France.
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Some songs veer into mawkish expressions of self-confidence and closure, and Kesha still dabbles in cultural appropriation.
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As left politics integrate into the mainstream, artists show how class factors into racial discrimination and cultural appropriation.
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You know, the "without showing that you understand or respect this culture" part of the cultural appropriation definition.
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" He later added: "I remember some people talked about the cultural appropriation of the embroidery inspired from Africa.
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This isn't the first time the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star has been accused of cultural appropriation.
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You know the drill: feathers, rhinestones, a little bit of cultural appropriation, and — oh yeah, the Fantasy Bra.
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Some on social media accused Schumer of cultural appropriation and insensitivity to the racial politics of the song.
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She is viewed by many — especially Black people — as an offensive example of cultural appropriation and racial insensitivity.
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Dreadlocks, along with box braids and cornrows, have also dominated cultural appropriation conversations, particularly in the fashion world.
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Magazine after facing accusations of cultural appropriation for naming the forthcoming brand after a traditional Japanese clothing item.
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If anything, its recent popularity is a result of cultural appropriation that McDonald's has, in turn, also appropriated.
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Kardashian West has previously been criticised and accused of cultural appropriation for wearing her hair in "boxer braids".
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The concept of cultural appropriation has been diminished and some people have said that's it's a stupid concept.
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"Cultural appropriation" has become a common term on campuses and is receiving broader meaning with each passing year.
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Religion has always been part of the cultural appropriation debate, since religion is an important part of culture.
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For the tribe, it was cultural appropriation of the most unethical, or at least the most disrespectful, sort.
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History has proven that "cultural appropriation" is critical for human progress, and without it the future is bleak.
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"There's ways to do things and be culturally appropriate" and not engage in cultural appropriation, Dr. Quintero said.
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Photography especially has long been used to make political statements, "prove" questionable supernatural sightings, and justify cultural appropriation.
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Over at SBNation, Zito Madu dug into the historical problem of cultural appropriation as exacerbated by social media.
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The announcement of a white model representing African heritage led to cultural appropriation outcries across social media. Wow.
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"Y'all I love Jhope forever, but his hairstyle really tiptoes the line of cultural appropriation," one fan tweeted.
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Online, a photo of the mural created a new front in the conversation about cultural appropriation on Twitter.
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Mexico's cultural minister calls out design house for cultural appropriation The cultural minister of Mexico accused the New York-based luxury brand Carolina Herrera of cultural appropriation after the design house unveiled a resort 203 collection earlier this year that featured embroidery and prominent patterns used by indigenous communities in Mexico.
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Mr Niedzviecki was defending "cultural appropriation", the use by artists and writers of motifs and ideas from other cultures.
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The success of the Kardashian-Jenners has come with numerous allegations of cultural appropriation, racial insensitivity, and white privilege.
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And as far back as the Azusa Street Revival, white Pentecostals displayed a religious version of black cultural appropriation.
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Many accused Timberlake of cultural appropriation and urged him to use his platform to take action about social issues.
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" And another user wrote: "As a Nigerian woman, I think this cultural appropriation thing is getting out of hand.
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Cultural appropriation is when the wearing of a hat makes one group the butt of jokes and another "cultured."
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Calling queer people's use of the rainbow "cultural appropriation" is essentially like saying reverse racism is an actual thing.
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He complained in one appearance about Twitter users debating cultural appropriation, according to Eren Orbey of the New Yorker.
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The rush to slap a "cultural appropriation" label on every other fad should be serially mocked by "SNL" scribes.
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"Cultural appropriation" was also a hot topic, self-evidently insulting to some, robustly defended as cultural exchange by others.
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I'd much rather support my local Chinese restaurant than participate in cultural appropriation and whitewashing of perfectly good food.
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The "Closer" singer called out the rapper in a new interview with The Guardian, accusing her of cultural appropriation.
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He's uneasy about import regulations, fretful of cultural appropriation, and well aware of his fumbling grasp of Mexican custom.
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But popular Bollywood actor, Sonam Kapoor, who appears in the video, doesn't agree with the chatter of cultural appropriation.
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The conversation about whether or not white women wearing cornrows is cultural appropriation has been going on for years.
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Can anyone be "culturally" part of a race or ethnicity, or is that the ultimate form of cultural appropriation?
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A lot of cultural appropriation happens innocently, a lot of people just want to incorporate things into their outfit.
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The fact that people suggest that argument betrays a basic collective lack of understanding about what cultural appropriation is.
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Someone accused me of cultural appropriation, but I'm not claiming that it's anything more than my version of it.
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Black women's bodies are constantly policed, targeted for violence, marked as deviant or excessive and mined for cultural appropriation.
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There was nothing against me personally: It was a big movement in Canada at that point about cultural appropriation.
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In an era when cultural appropriation is now a matter of debate, "The Prisoner" can leave an uneasy taste.
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Parker: I don't understand why people don't get it yet, or why it's taken so long with cultural appropriation.
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I'm shocked that anyone would think writing about America could even be cultural appropriation, because we export so much.
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Davidson recounted critiques of cultural appropriation that had been voiced from some members within and outside of Fair community.
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"So does that mean when we celebrate Christmas and Halloween it's also cultural appropriation?" asked one WeChat user, Larissa.
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Books of The Times In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes and debates about cultural appropriation.
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In Australia, home of the Aboriginal boomerang, the French brand is being accused of cultural appropriation, exploitation and ignorance.
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This Buffy episode was met with some critical backlash and charges of cultural appropriation upon its release in 1999.
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People also used the meme generator to blast other examples of whitewashing, cultural appropriation and white saviors in Hollywood.
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Last year, Whoopi Goldberg added puzzling commentary when she conflated black women wearing straight blond extensions with cultural appropriation.
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Then you will use media literacy skills to think about the intersections of cultural appropriation and crediting online creations.
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In 2015, some observers accused her of cultural appropriation for wearing her hair in cornrows, a historically black style.
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In Canada, which has a large immigrant community from India, he was criticized for cultural appropriation and widely mocked.
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The question of whether the vast majority of internet slang should be considered cultural appropriation has no easy answer.
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From cultural appropriation to that whole Jeffree Star debacle, the family has a laundry list of controversial and appropriation offenses.
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After, BF shows me a YouTube channel called Contrapoints, and we end up talking about cultural appropriation for a while.
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As a result of the claims, Campus Dining Services met with the students to discuss the effects of cultural appropriation.
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Notorious B.I.G.'s mum has since accused Kendall and Kylie of cultural appropriation and The Doors may sue the sisters.
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Their questionable choices have often become springboards for complicated discussions of cultural appropriation, beauty standards, race and everything in-between.
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Kim Kardashian West is once again facing accusations of cultural appropriation after announcing her new lingerie and shapewear brand, Kimono.
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Students at Oberlin, a liberal-arts college in Ohio, revolted over insufficiently authentic Asian cuisine, equating it to "cultural appropriation".
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Some loved it, some wanted him to go back to his signature style and others accused him of cultural appropriation.
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If you know the history of cultural appropriation in the fashion industry, you know my anxiety and exasperation are justified.
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But cultural appropriation, at least to me, seems not to be the problem, at least as far as food goes.
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Teigen also discussed cultural appropriation, a polarizing topic that seems to create headlines and cause a tweet storm every week.
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"You can't just bundle cultural appropriation and gentrification and call that a company," tweeted Daniel Mortenson, a Brooklyn freelance writer.
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This is far from the first time Stenberg has spoken up for representation, often focusing on fighting against cultural appropriation.
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Related: We Talked to the Suicide Girls About Richard Prince's "Appropriation Art" What Can Hermit Crabs Teach About Cultural Appropriation?
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Popular culture and media are more often held accountable for cultural appropriation today than in the 1980s, to be sure.
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Food is glitzier and more international but also more politically conscious—militantly organic and swirling with debates about cultural appropriation.
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It is not the scary decorations or costumes but "cultural appropriation" that has triggered a tradition of recrimination and anger.
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If the right believes that cultural appropriation is not offensive, why are they making paper dolls that ridicule other cultures?
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In June, it questioned the fashion house founded by Venezuela-born designer Carolina Herrera for "cultural appropriation" of indigenous patterns.
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Sanchez calls Yellowtail's traditional Native designs exquisite, while also offering praise for her efforts in speaking out on cultural appropriation.
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While this has sometimes been criticized for cultural appropriation, for the most part eclectic Paganism is generally progressive and inclusive.
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Reviews have been strong, but discussion around the movie, set in Japan, has been plagued by accusations of cultural appropriation.
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The film's creators clearly tried hard to transcend mere cultural appropriation, in favor of a sincere homage to its influences.
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"Cultural appropriation is something that continually happens to African-American artists," she said, "and I want to make a stand."
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Still, in spite of the gilding, this ingenious take on colonialism and cultural appropriation is wildly inventive and widely representative.
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Even as some see cultural appropriation in cafeteria sushi, it is surely preferable to sushi meant for only investment bankers.
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That's why they suggested the McAllen Public Library as the best venue for promoting this atrocious piece of cultural appropriation.
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Along with the moral questions of climate change, the surfer may have to confront the political issue of cultural appropriation.
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They have never been just a trend, which is why they have become a charged accessory in the cultural appropriation debate.
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A lot of people were unhappy about it, calling out the cover for "cultural appropriation" and accusing Hadid of playing dress.
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When her casting was announced, a few French ultranationalist Twitter users and some bullying Reddit posters accused her of cultural appropriation.
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In later years, Stefani's magpie-like tendency to absorb the fashions around her would be called a form of cultural appropriation.
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Bolander told the Juneau Empire that she did not think of her work as cultural appropriation and never meant any disrespect.
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While some commenters appeared to really like the tattoo, others thought the tattoo design might be an act of cultural appropriation.
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Kim Kardashian West is changing the name of her shapewear brand after receiving cultural appropriation backlash from fans before its launch.
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This is cultural appropriation and at a time of the #metoo movement, you are taking voices away from Native/Indigenous Women.
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First, she was called out for cultural appropriation, referring to her new hair style has "Bo Derek braids" instead of cornrows.
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But all the taco eating and $43 margaritas can cloud what you're actually celebrating — and lead to some nasty cultural appropriation.
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Aloha Poke Co. has been accused of cultural appropriation after sending cease and desist letters to other businesses with similar names.
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Of the many offenses in Lionel Shriver's now-infamous speech about cultural appropriation, it might be the most difficult to spot.
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Members of the team were wearing braids, and Figueroa asked them to remove their hairstyles in the name of cultural appropriation.
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And (thankfully), most celebrities finally seemed to understand that there's never, ever a good enough reason or justification for cultural appropriation.
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Who would have guessed The Leftovers would give us the strongest argument against cultural appropriation on television after Dear White People?
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Rejecting cross-pollination as "cultural appropriation" risks stifling innovation, creativity and the atmosphere of appreciation that comes when different cultures meet.
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Rattan the material isn't subject to cultural appropriation, she says — but can the trend and style that uses it heavily be?
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There are many people who see these frenzies about cultural appropriation, trigger warnings, micro-aggressions and safe spaces as overtly crazy.
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Critics of cultural appropriation say that a key difference between being inspired by a culture and appropriating it lies in attribution.
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Kacey Musgraves has been accused of cultural appropriation after performing in an áo dài, a traditional Vietnamese dress, on October 11.
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Contrary to popular belief, Coachella style isn't just fringe, neon, and cultural appropriation (though these, er, "trends" definitely dominate the scene).
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Cultural appropriation — the idea of taking from another culture without properly crediting it — is an issue that keeps cropping up regularly.
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That book came out in 2005, several years before the term "cultural appropriation" branched out of academia and into the mainstream.
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Somehow her accent and self-deprecation make it less cultural appropriation and more like Aunt Adele being silly at a barbeque.
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A matter of cultural appropriation, along the lines of Ben Folds' "Bitches Ain't Shit" or Jonathan Coulton's cringey "Baby Got Back"?
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With easy access to social media, shoppers are increasingly aware of — and vocal about — cultural appropriation, derogatory messaging and insensitive references.
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Cultural appropriation is just the modern term for a concept that has aided in the development of human society for centuries.
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Things like power, authenticity, respectfulness and credit are all important considerations to weigh against the damage that's inherent in cultural appropriation.
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Reframing fashion-based cultural appropriation not as a bad habit but as a discussion of ideas helps make these calculations easier.
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"It's ridiculous to criticize this as cultural appropriation," Zhou Yijun, a Hong Kong-based cultural commentator, said in a telephone interview.
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After a spiritual cleansing date that is bound to start some cultural appropriation discussions, Demi and Kristian have a sit down.
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With all the rich historical context around hand tattoos, some tattoo artists decline inking the spot altogether to avoid cultural appropriation.
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Now my heart aches at the realization that in this "cultural appropriation" phase we are once again building walls between peoples.
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School-based instruction championing "cultural retention" and discouraging inter-cultural mixing through "cultural appropriation" shaming will take care of the rest.
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It was long ago and far away, and now the blond dreadlocks of his youth would be viewed as cultural appropriation.
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The appropriation I am looking at in the book is a sort of interracial, cross-cultural appropriation from black to elsewhere.
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There will be workshops on everything from tarot and astrology to Indigenous medicine and learning to recognize and avoid cultural appropriation.
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Cultural appropriation, she told Jezebel, is: Taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else's culture without permission.
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It's cultural appropriation to buy an "Indian headdress" that's based on a sacred war bonnet and sold at a costume shop.
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Show Mein, an exhibition at this year's Spring/Break Art Show, became the focus of a heated debate about cultural appropriation.
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They don't perform and present themselves with the same degree of commitment, extremes or cultural appropriation of a group like, say, Goat.
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What these tweets missed was that the hashtag that the seminar was highlighting was used mostly ironically to call out cultural appropriation.
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Selma Blair is standing up for herself amid accusations of cultural appropriation after she wore a headwrap in two recent Instagram posts.
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These incidents sparked a debate over "cultural appropriation", the use by a dominant culture of ideas and practices of a downtrodden one.
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This provokes the question: in what ways might her personal relationships with Black people affect her sensitivity to issues of cultural appropriation?
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Last year, designer Marc Jacobs was widely criticized for cultural appropriation for sending his models down the runway with multi-colored dreadlocks.
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By teaching these skills to the Betas, Jamilah is essentially providing them with the tools to execute another form of cultural appropriation.
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But what about college students and "cultural appropriation," as when a white kid sings a rap song associated with black ghetto culture?
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The singer opted for a twisted look on her hair that looks like dreads and is now being accused of cultural appropriation.
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Then he got into it, delivering a powerful speech about the lack of equality for black people, cultural appropriation and police brutality.
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On Saturday evening, she called out designers for cultural appropriation at the after-party for Phillip Plein's Spring/Summer 2018 runway show.
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Throw in additional factors like the impossibility of owning an idea and the phenomenon of cultural appropriation, and things get messy fast.
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Intimate partner violence, police violence, the wage gap, cultural appropriation, and reproductive justice are all concerns under the umbrella of Black feminism.
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There was no mention of President Trump or the government shutdown, although the pair made jokes about identity politics and cultural appropriation.
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Kim Kardashian West detailed the eye-opening experience she had after naming her shapewear line "KIMONO" and receiving backlash for cultural appropriation.
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Excerpted from White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue…And Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation by Lauren Michele Jackson (Beacon Press, 2019).
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For over two years, even before Iggy came on the scene, we've been talking about why cultural appropriation is so high stakes.
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Some critics have have suggested Keating's engagement with dancehall is problematic, an act of cultural appropriation from someone who isn't Jamaican-born.
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"I think it's really important to see how I'm implicated in racism, in cultural appropriation, and really look at it," she says.
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No proper appreciation is given to the culture of origin, although in the end the act of cultural appropriation receives the appreciation.
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Following accusations of cultural appropriation, Kardashian West said that she had "the best intentions in mind" and changed the name to SKIMS.
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In a film set in futuristic Japan, Wes Anderson and his collaborators try to achieve more than cultural appropriation, with mixed results.
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Do you feel that accusations of cultural appropriation have complicated your own feelings about the film or your perception of its legacy?
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In the end, determining when cultural appropriation is O.K. can feel as if it requires a delicate calculus, more holistic than binary.
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ARTS An article on Thursday about Aziz Ansari and Louis C.K. misstated the kind of dress that inspired a cultural appropriation uproar.
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Kim Kardashian West has officially renamed her shapewear brand Skims Solutionwear after the star faced cultural appropriation backlash over its original name.
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Last year, the novelist Lionel Shriver generated a worldwide storm after defending cultural appropriation in an address to the Brisbane Writers Festival.
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Over the years, Ms. Perry has absorbed criticism for cultural appropriation, for being too sexy on "Sesame Street," for dating John Mayer.
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To label such efforts as "cultural appropriation" lends credibility to the sort of racial rigidity that fuels racism in the first place.
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That choice prompted allegations of cultural appropriation and a missed opportunity to feature a non-Western model, charges that may now resurface.
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The people who worry about cultural appropriation reduce people to an ethnic category and argue that those outside can never understand it.
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Most painfully for Ms. Warren, some prominent Native Americans have soured on her, saying she exhibited unforgivable behavior consistent with cultural appropriation.
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For some Hindu scholars and thinkers, yoga's adoption in the West as a popular fitness fad is a form of cultural appropriation.
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" Here we've reached a point that often arises in conversations about race and cultural appropriation with white artists: "What about my struggle?
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The 18-year-old has been called out for cultural appropriation multiple times in the past, and yet doesn't appear to be fazed.
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Perhaps, because of Poland's history of its territory being overtaken by other countries, or their immigrant status, they are sensitive about cultural appropriation.
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"Cultural Appropriation at its best 🙄" one Instagram user wrote after Halsey shared a screenshot of the new cover to her Instagram account.
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I know there is no such thing as reverse racism and only the disenfranchised have the right to speak up about cultural appropriation.
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French fashion house Chanel has provoked accusations of cultural appropriation with its latest accessory: a boomerang with a price tag of about $1,500.
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"This is about style," said Guido, when I asked him one-on-one if he worried this would be interpreted as cultural appropriation.
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Williams' words at the BET Awards was a stirring speech on Black identity, cultural appropriation, and the struggle against police brutality and misconduct.
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The latter drew the internet's ire most recently, with people crying cultural appropriation (this was the second time the brand released this item).
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Instead, cultural appropriation seemed to expand in definition to the point of absurdity; in turn, these instances became platforms that exacerbated racial tensions.
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While the show has been criticized for cultural appropriation and lack of representation in the past, this may be a sign of progress.
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Like all her brushes with cultural appropriation, it will pass as long as she remains the tall member of a very famous family.
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When people call out the Kardashians for cultural appropriation, they often criticize them for stealing hair, nails, clothes, and men from Black folks.
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I completely understand why people can get territorial about cultural appropriation and their food, but for me, subcontinental food is always cross-cultural.
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This isn't the singer's first brush with cultural appropriation either — last year, Bieber rushed to Kylie Jenner's defense when she wore cornrows herself.
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Hadid appears to place the blame squarely on Vogue Italia, which has faced similar accusations of blackface and cultural appropriation in the past.
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I have been thinking about this idea of cultural appropriation — whether it be Indian or African-American culture being used by other people.
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"There are many people who see these frenzies about cultural appropriation, trigger warnings, micro-aggressions and safe spaces as overtly crazy," she writes.
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While some folks have used Twitter to call out possible cultural appropriation, most tweets are in awe of Riri's presence on the cover.
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Kim was criticized for cultural appropriation and was urged to change the brand name — even by the Japanese mayor of Kyoto, Daisaku Kadokawa.
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They seem to have captured our reaction to yet another case of cultural appropriation before we were able to type a single comment.
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But cultural appropriation, at its best, can lead to hybrid phenomena that wouldn't have existed if cultures remained siloed off from one another.
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The patterns evoke the African textile industry, fraught with both imperialism and cultural appropriation, and in some cases were cut right from dashikis.
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Cultural appropriation is a contentious issue for many white hip-hop artists, so how do Reykjavíkurdætur reconcile this with what they are doing?
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Mr. Harrell investigates the cultural appropriation and Orientalism that an early modern choreographer like Ruth St. Denis embraced and marketed throughout the world.
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But with black music and culture being such a driving force in the genre, K-pop has also been accused of cultural appropriation.
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Cultural appropriation isn't a worry for the director Ariane Mnouchkine, who, at 22005, isn't slowing down, but knows she won't be here forever.
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It's impossible not to interpret this number as a cringe-inducing spectacle of cultural appropriation, pushed to and past the point of parody.
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One of its recurring segments, for example, shows interviews with students on questions like whether St. Patrick's Day celebrations amount to cultural appropriation.
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As the festival expands, Fair community must reconcile it's countercultural identity with the increasing commodification of hippie ethos and critiques of cultural appropriation.
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The show, which spawned a national debate about cultural appropriation, prompted theater critics and black activists to denounce it for masking black suffering.
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At Super Bowl I in 1967, cheerleaders wore glamorized versions of Native American headdresses, a form of cultural appropriation that hasn't aged well.
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Kim Kardashian West opened up about the process of changing her shapewear brand's name from Kimono to SKIMS after facing cultural appropriation backlash.
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As the sandwich has started showing up in other neighborhoods, at higher prices, it has become a symbol of cultural appropriation and gentrification.
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The dominant narrative on the left seems to be about policing the boundaries between groups, guarding against cultural appropriation, monitoring language for offense.
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David JelinekNew York To the Editor: Was Harriet Beecher Stowe guilty of "enslavement porn" or "cultural appropriation" when she wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
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Some fans and critics of Kylie Jenner are accusing her of cultural appropriation after she shared a photo of her hair in twists.
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This is not the first time Jenner or the other Kardashian-Jenner sisters have found themselves at the center of cultural appropriation accusations.
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She also launched KKW Fragrance and a shapewear brand called Skims (its original name, Kimono, was scuttled after an outcry over cultural appropriation).
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At one show, he poked fun at "zealous and performative leftists," in Orbey's words, and criticized Twitter users for calling out cultural appropriation.
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Beneficial Boot Wear depicts the intrusion of a white woman into black culture and is, as Chromati explains, an exploration of cultural appropriation.
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This week, CATS in the London tube, Shriver's cultural appropriation heard around the world, Clinton's white supremacy explainer, normalizing Trump, Gawken, and more.
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Riley (Rowan Blanchard) dealt with a cyberbully, Farkle (Corey Fogelmanis) faced an Asperger's diagnosis, and Cory (Ben Savage) taught his class about cultural appropriation.
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But with the use of traditional Mexican styles and prints, questions about cultural appropriation must be asked — and they were, by Vogue's Suzy Menkes.
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Earlier this summer, Kardashian was met with accusations of cultural appropriation, when she said she was going to call her new shapewear line Kimono.
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In fact, talking about cultural appropriation the way that we have seems to have made us more callous and closed-off on all sides.
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He was called out for cultural appropriation, and Khloé got into hot water for posting photos with him, thereby implicitly condoning his inappropriate costume.
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Controversy surrounding the Kardashian-Jenner family's many social media accounts is nothing new — they've been accused of everything, from cultural appropriation to inappropriate nudity.
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There was also an outcry over British band Coldplay's Hymn for the Weekend music video that some Indians reckoned was amounting to cultural appropriation.
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Though he had plenty of internal support, Lin admits that cultural appropriation in regards to his hair wasn't something that immediately came to mind.
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But her recent styling accessory just got her into some murky waters with fans calling out her dream catcher hair piece as cultural appropriation.
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Some criticized the aquarium saying that the tweet was cultural appropriation and was aligning the bodies of black women with the bodies of animals.
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The egg, oil, and vinegar emulsion is a symbol not only for blandness but for whiteness and all its attendant cultural appropriation and entitlement.
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Considering she's yet to twerk at the MTV VMAs and spark debates about cultural appropriation, "Most Girls" is far from a lethal career offense.
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Last year you tweeted that you had made a video in Africa which you were then not allowed to release because of cultural appropriation.
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And as I began to understand cultural appropriation before I had words for it, I started to really hate seeing white girls in henna.
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Many on Instagram are calling out the actor for cultural appropriation and have begun leaving a wide range of disappointed comments on the post.
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Whoever makes up the ridiculous rules against "cultural appropriation" should quit this job and go into something more sensible and benign, like catering weddings.
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The designer was subsequently accused of cultural appropriation, of lifting influences from black culture and showing them on a cast of predominantly white models.
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Since Ariana Grande filed a $10 million lawsuit against Forever 21 on Monday, she has been hit with accusations of hypocrisy and cultural appropriation.
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Cultural appropriation became a widespread topic of conversation in 2015 during the Yale Halloween costume controversy — 10 years after I published Who Owns Culture?
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In this perfectly spun dystopian satire, Rich Larson takes aim at fashion, cultural appropriation, and modern incarceration—and I've already said too much. Enjoy.
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Ebony's recent covers have taken bold stances on cultural appropriation, the rape allegations against Bill Cosby, and celebrities taking a stand against racial injustice.
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He talked about Roseanne, the CEO of Starbucks, and the teen who was accused of cultural appropriation for wearing a Chinese qipao to prom.
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Why is his transition so smooth, so rapturously received, while hers is plagued with dark murmurs about betrayal and cultural appropriation and selling out?
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Movie star Johnny Depp defended his role in an ad campaign for Parfums Christian Dior's "Sauvage" perfume after it was accused of cultural appropriation.
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At worst, they could be perceived as an unwitting form of cultural appropriation, which has in recent years become a subject of freighted discourse.
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Redlining, school segregation and minority disenfranchisement long preceded debates over whether serving bad banh mi sandwiches in a college cafeteria amounts to cultural appropriation.
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Kimono: Kim Kardashian West has been accused of cultural appropriation for naming her line of bras, briefs and bodysuits after the traditional Japanese garment.
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The debate, which played out on social media, raised the question of where to draw the line between honoring local customs and cultural appropriation.
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The debate over cultural appropriation has roiled the adult literary world as well, and even prominent adult novelists have started turning to sensitivity readers.
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If all cultural appropriation is bad — extending even to, say, an Italian-American chef becoming expert in North African food — then we are doomed.
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Originally slated to be called "Kimono Solutionwear," the name stirred up so many accusations of cultural appropriation that she walked back her initial announcement.
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Now cultural appropriation is wielded as a pejorative against writers and artists who draw material from the trauma of those less privileged than themselves.
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This cultural appropriation is taking place because of the Emergency Protection for Iraqi Cultural Antiquities Act of 2004, as amended effective April 30, 2008.
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The controversy has grown into a perfect storm of industry hype and accusations of cultural appropriation amid an increasingly charged debate over immigration. 8.
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Among them was Alicia Elliott, an indigenous writer from the Tuscarora people, whose own article discussing cultural appropriation had been edited by Mr. Niedzviecki.
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In these cases, wearing braids does feel a lot like hurtful cultural appropriation and that self-denial ultimately harms both Latinx and Black women.
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Although fashion history is rife with accusations of cultural appropriation and insensitivity, this is the first time a government has entered the fray. 9.
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But for some people, that context doesn't matter – the mere existence of "Rich Chigga" represents yet another example in a trend of cultural appropriation.
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The experience was an enlightening one for both fans who watched as Perry addressed her insecurities, her history with cultural appropriation, and her sexual awakening.
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When I started writing about cultural appropriation 10 years ago, it felt important to stress how these small annoyances laddered up to a pervasive grievance.
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Amid ambient contemporary questions about cultural appropriation, I believe in the power of imagination, that you aren't required to have lived everything you write about.
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Macklemore Stepping into the space of "White Privilege II," it was the conversation of race in America, of cultural appropriation, of privilege, of white supremacy.
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Now, neither of those backgrounds give him a pass on cultural appropriation, but Black, Latino, and Asian cultures have long been influenced by one another.
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" Another user tweeted, "to your friend on the left, please let him know that what he is doing is cultural appropriation and its extremely offensive.
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Kylie Jenner is practicing cultural appropriation while wearing a du-rag because when she dons one she is lauded as being edgy, hip, and trendsetting.
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The star is responding to cultural appropriation accusations from her newest music video, "No Promises," in which she stars alongside the deejay trio Cheat Codes.
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Aside from cultural appropriation, there have also been tons of questionable sexified looks, from a clown to a gym rat to, yes, even a Tinkertoy.
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The costume and the star's eye makeup, come amid deeper conversations about cultural appropriation and Halloween, making it a surprising choice given the current climate.
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Though the hairstyle has been linked to the Kardashian-Jenner clan, and they have received quite a bit of blowback for cultural appropriation of cornrows.
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Indigenous Art Code's CEO Gabrielle Sullivan said it's another case of cultural appropriation, and it's "disappointing" given Chanel invest so much in protecting their brand.
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The French fashion house is being accused of cultural appropriation following the release of a new advertisement for Dior's Cruise 22019 collection, CNN reported Tuesday.
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In addition to accusations of cultural appropriation, Kardashian West's brand faced backlash over the lack of diverse body types featured in its initial promotional imagery.
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In 2018, they all faced accusations of cultural appropriation, signaling how a term unfamiliar to most Americans even a decade ago has become pervasive today.
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In recent years, I've heard the term cultural appropriation applied to the hoop earrings and nameplate necklaces associated with working-class black and brown women.
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I'm also putting a spotlight on cultural appropriation and how, through Hollywood, entertainment, and the arts industry, our work and our identities have been appropriated.
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Cultural appropriation, especially by white males like Birk, can easily turn into an extension of colonialism, but Birk's work is too affectionate to be dangerous.
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Critics were quick to accuse the pop star of cultural appropriation, specifically citing his controversial Super Bowl Halftime Show performance with Janet Jackson in 2004.
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These days the toughest sheriffs in town are the social media watchdogs ready to name and shame any designer they think guilty of cultural appropriation.
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Chikk said what hurts more than seeing K-pop artists being accused of cultural appropriation is the lack of credit that's being given to songwriters.
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That's what happened at Oberlin College, long a center of activism, where students once protested the dining hall for cultural appropriation for offering poor sushi.
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Many critics also addressed the question of cultural appropriation in "Isle of Dogs," which is influenced by the films of the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.
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Is it appropriate when a white artist recasts one of the most influential images of all time — Till's mutilated body — or is it cultural appropriation?
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But if their goal is to truly divorce their brand from the cultural appropriation and racist undertones that activists have long protested, that's not enough.
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In today's parlance, Albers might be accused of "cultural appropriation," a negative buzzword that presumes that culture can be owned and controlled, which it can't.
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It makes me want to dig a little deeper and ask: Where does each of you come down on the whole controversy over "cultural appropriation"?
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She was about to enter thornier terrain in a work dealing with themes of cultural appropriation, nationalism, displacement and relationships between Israeli and Palestinian cultures.
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And Mr. Kuplowsky, whose tenure began Thursday night with a look at battle rap and cultural appropriation called "Bodied," has cast a similarly wide net.
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Students: Read the entire article, then tell us: — After reading multiple perspectives, do you think Ms. Daum's prom dress was an example of cultural appropriation?
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This dark, complex ghost story about racial privilege, cultural appropriation and that quintessential American form, the blues, is written with Kunzru's customary eloquence and skill.
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One senses Quinn's Chicago origins in noticing homologies with Ed Paschke's irradiated, blurred figures and the general free-wheeling cultural appropriation of the Imagist group.
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Framing it as proof of the left's reactionary and prohibitive attitude toward cultural appropriation, he writes: One particularly amusing example of a "cultural appropriation" panic occurred in July 2015, when Boston's Museum of Fine Arts announced "Kimono Wednesdays," in which visitors were encouraged to pose in Kimonos next to Claude Monet's painting 1876 "La Japonaise," which depicts the artist's wife in a similar outfit.
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The group has also spoken out against cultural appropriation, including asking non-native fans not wear headdresses at shows and calling out racist sports team names.
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Given the efforts of activists to teach the public about cultural appropriation, Scott said retailers can no longer claim ignorance of the issue as an excuse.
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Dolezal's cultural appropriation has extended beyond US borders into cultures and peoples older than the US, cultures where the naming of a person is serious business.
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Kim's new blonde cornrows, which she called "Bo Derek braids," received heavy backlash on Instagram in January 2018, with many accusing the star of cultural appropriation.
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Kardashian West's new blonde cornrows, which she called "Bo Derek braids," have been receiving heavy backlash on Instagram, with many accusing the star of cultural appropriation.
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On the one side there's Fortnite, an admittedly great game that has nonetheless faced (valid) accusations of committing cultural appropriation without giving credit where it's due.
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Far from it, as she continues to face scrutiny for what many people believe is cultural appropriation and at worse willful ignorance on issues of race.
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In 20183, H&M, Dove, and Zara were just a few of the global companies that faced backlash because of racist accusations, marketing, and cultural appropriation.
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I'm also pleasantly surprised that there's far less tacky cultural appropriation than you might expect from a crowd with so many wealthy white bohemians in it.
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But this year, the actor Jesse Williams commanded the spotlight with an impassioned speech calling for an end to police killings, racial inequality and cultural appropriation.
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Katy Perry wore a Geisha-inspired costume for her performance in the 2013 American Music Awards, which some claimed was an offensive display of cultural appropriation.
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Rather, his practice shows his investment in activism and social change, as it takes on cultural appropriation, fetishization of indigenous practices, cultural reclamation, and environmental issues.
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But she's still failing to see the real issue at hand: Copying a genre-specific sound simply because she wanted to do so is cultural appropriation.
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On top of that, I get to explore issues that are important to me, from gender, feminism, and social media to identity, cultural appropriation, and race.
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Justin Timberlake has apologized after a tweet he sent in support of Jesse Williams' BET Awards speech prompted comments questioning the singer's role in cultural appropriation.
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Even as it's taking on sex, death, commodification, the closeting of homosexuality, cultural appropriation and all the evils of capitalism, it keeps a sense of humor.
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Kendall Jenner is once again wearing her hair in cornrows, a move that has prompted many social media users to accuse the model of cultural appropriation.
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More recently, the previous government in Skopje carried out acts of cultural appropriation, erecting statues of Alexander (but called, coyly, "Equestrian Warrior") and his father, Philip.
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One issue you explore is cultural appropriation, how the pioneers of Israeli folk dance, mostly Eastern European women, drew from social dance forms like Palestinian dabke.
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I suggest that rather than talking about cultural appropriation, you focus on what it is about the picture that is disrespectful to the group in question.
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It was an extraordinary convergence of forces: Industry hype meets charges of cultural appropriation meets one of the most combustible political issues in America today, immigration.
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TONI TRUESDALEBIDDEFORD, ME. To the Editor: Kenan Malik does not so much "defend" cultural appropriation as dispute the validity of the concept, as well he should.
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Others argued that if self-identification were to replace ancestry or phenotype as the touchstone of racial identity, this would encourage "racial fraud" and cultural appropriation.
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The fashion show has consistently been accused of cultural appropriation, which is made all the more offensive by how few models of color they actually hire.
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Public television cultural appropriation is totally a thing, and I just wish Jimmy Carter could have acknowledged the role Mr. Rogers played in his sartorial development.
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Here's the funny thing about so-called genre books: Nobody has ever had to teach a crime writer about cultural appropriation or representation of other people.
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Instead of a school-approved act of cultural appropriation by way of, say, a feathered headdress, Tremeka suggested Nyemah dress up as a Dakota Access Pipeline protester.
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Estes and her husband were subsequently called out on Twitter for cultural appropriation, racial tourism, and recklessly endangering girls and women who are forced to undergo FGM.
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Over a couple of phone conversations, I spoke to Sensei about black-owned businesses, why the black economic revolution is nigh, and the economics of cultural appropriation.
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When it comes to fashion, the question of whether or not cultural appropriation is indeed in play is best answered by the culture that's been oppressed, i.e.
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Reality TV star Kim Kardashian said she's going to change the name of her new brand venture after causing an uproar and drawing accusations of cultural appropriation.
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Comedian Jenny Yang, who regularly pokes fun at culinary cultural appropriation on her YouTube show Bad Appetite, pointed out another problem in Zimmern's approach to the topic.
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And you&aposre seeing it a lot of times where one group accuses another group of cultural appropriation, and another group accused that group of something else.
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Screengrab via YouTube Something weird is happening in 2016 to all the critically maligned white artists we've accused of cultural appropriation in the past: They're all flopping.
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" JW: "We've definitely always called out racism and the lack of diversity and cultural appropriation at Essence and we're continuing doing that and doubling down on that.
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The site asked him about Iron Fist's "controversy or cultural appropriation issue" and Wu had a totally new take that not many have written or spoken about.
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You can watch the roast sizzle over at #KimOhNo, which is both a rallying cry for informed discussion about cultural appropriation and a better pun than Kim's.
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Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore's graphic novel BTTM FDRS blends discussions around race relations, cultural appropriation, and urban injustice with body horror and an eerie plot.
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As I transitioned into a young adult, my fascination with Stefani turned to criticism once I became old enough to grasp what was truly happening: cultural appropriation.
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Somewhere around 2006 when Stefani was still traveling with the Harajuku Girls, I began to realize that the singer's knack for cultural appropriation was a major problem.
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Bouquets of towering multicolored yarn fashioned into faux dreadlocks fueled a continuing conversation about the relationship of cultural appropriation and creative inspiration that has grown increasingly heated.
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Oberlin students often find new issues to protest, even on one of the most liberal campuses in the world, like objections to serving sushi as cultural appropriation.
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However, some parents have publicly spoken out this year, saying because the character is Polynesian, having non-Polynesian children wear the costume would amount to cultural appropriation.
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Since there is no universally accepted guidelines for what is and is not cultural appropriation, sometimes good-natured depictions can run afoul of its more stringent enforcers.
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And since we're on the subject of cheese, read about a New York City sandwich that has set off a discussion about the cultural appropriation of food.
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The next month, a white teenager sparked an international debate about cultural appropriation after she shared a photo of herself in a Chinese dress called the qipao.
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Although the cultural appropriation debate has been raging for years, some of the most egregious cases continue, such as the Halloween costumes that sexualize Native American women.
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Accusations of cultural appropriation in the fashion sphere are tricky terrain, and there have been a slew of situations involving Native American culture and attire in particular.
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Canada is guilty of cultural appropriation through Parks Canada, Tourism Canada, and through supporting national galleries that hold stolen artifacts or own stolen bones of deceased ancestors.
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You can go to the website, it's got a brief description of what cultural appropriation is, how it hurts, who you're hurting, and the economics behind it.
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"It's not about how his dreads look it's about cultural appropriation which doesn't fly even if it was "just for fun"... whatever that means," one person tweeted.
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The ambitious Peak Performances series took a gamble when it decided to stage a work that would inevitably draw questions about cultural appropriation on a university campus.
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On that note, the series touches on the idea of cultural appropriation versus sharing—where is the dividing line, for you, between the two of those things?
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By that point, I had seen fashion shows in nearly a dozen countries, and I was used to hearing the term "cultural appropriation" whispered around a runway.
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Since the nature of cultural appropriation is to make itself invisible — and since a lot of it happens orally, without written sources — it's hard to track definitively.
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The uproar over a Chinese-American restaurant that was opened in Manhattan by two white restaurateurs has become the latest front in the debate over cultural appropriation.
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To the mostly right-leaning media outlets who covered the controversy, it was just the latest skirmish in the broader battle over cultural appropriation and political correctness.
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I think they were doing a lot of incredible, rich things that have a lot to say about our contemporary moment, particularly around issues of cultural appropriation.
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We're very pleased to publish these student editorials below, which address a diverse range of subjects from cultural appropriation to news literacy, drug policy and excess packaging.
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" The previous month, a call-out painted in looping yellow letters on a Pitzer College "free speech wall" against cultural appropriation — "White Girl, Take OFF your hoops!!!
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Bernard F. Dick Teaneck, N.J. ♦ To the Editor: I haven't read "American Dirt," but the whole debate about cultural appropriation strikes me as ridiculous and dangerous.
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LARRAINE GERELICK NASHVILLE To the Editor: I am appalled that politically correct culture warriors against "cultural appropriation" are in effect appropriating and debasing the mantle of progressivism.
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The show is timely as it tackles, among other issues, cultural appropriation or the unsanctioned mining of ethnic cultures, which has long been rampant on international runways.
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From paying to cheat on the SATs to being exposed on the Internet to outright cultural appropriation, here are some of the wildest celebrity scandals of 2019.
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That one-two combination has caused many Crown Heights residents to accuse Brennan of racism, cultural appropriation, and of showcasing the worst, most clueless side of gentrification.
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I would like to clarify, I believe this shoot is from when I was around 15 and didn't understand cultural appropriation or the impact it has on POC.
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The Black Girls Rock founder brought the house down with a powerful speech about the importance of the event, touching everything from cultural appropriation to black girl magic.
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Lizène, who likes to cut up and mix two different styles together, does just that in a flippant, cut-and-paste cultural appropriation he calls "Syncretic Art" (2011).
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Kardashian West also addressed the cultural appropriation backlash she faced when she has worn cornrow braids, admitting North often influences her hairstyles and helps put together her outfits.
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"This is the first and probably not the last intrusion" of Trumpian attitudes into Canada's cultural debate, says Conrad Brunk, co-author of a book on cultural appropriation.
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White rappers have never been bigger than in 2018, but none have topped Eminem's skill set, his ability to quell cultural appropriation critiques, or fluency in both cultures.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican government has called out fashion house Carolina Herrera for the "cultural appropriation" of indigenous patterns and textiles from Mexico in its latest collection.
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One commenter asks, "Is this cultural appropriation if she's wearing a Chinese dress?" with another pointing out the style of the dress ahead of a rolling-eye emoji.
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But even as their popularity skyrockets, some in the hip-hop community take issue with their lyrics—raising questions about the line between self-expression and cultural appropriation.
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For those that missed it, two white entrepreneurs, Kali Wilgus and Liz Connelly, shut down their Mexican-themed pop-up amid allegations of cultural appropriation and recipe thievery.
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Update: This morning Karlie Kloss issued a short statement on Twitter apologizing for taking part in a geisha-themed Vogue shoot that was criticized for its cultural appropriation.
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The author's new story about the history of magic in North America has incensed fans who say her writing is laced with a colonial mentality and cultural appropriation.
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"Get Out" (2017) is a twisted, satirical thriller by director Jordan Peele that expertly weaves in metaphors for more serious topics such as racism, slavery and cultural appropriation.
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She chose extreme examples of counter-cultural appropriation gone awry, citing Oberlin students apologizing for the inauthenticity of sushi in their cafeteria as being insensitive to Japanese people.
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Cultural appropriation has always been part of the industry's aesthetic history, but that doesn't mean it should be one of the default options, like the 1960s or '70s.
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Presented below is the full, unedited conversation that took place over email between THUMP and Marquis Hawkes in relation to this piece on cultural appropriation in dance music.
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In fact, the debate over cultural appropriation, loosely defined as the taking of another culture's practices without consent, is currently so widespread that it's starting to see pushback.
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I spoke to Scafidi about whether the term's meaning has shifted over the years and why some of the most egregious examples of cultural appropriation continue to happen.
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Some might want to take them to task for cultural appropriation; the trouble is that it's hard to say what exactly they are appropriating at any given moment.
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The answer might lie in our country's shifting attitude toward cultural appropriation, a concern that seems to matter more to the West than the rest of the world.
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Known for her controversial statements about race, including suggesting getting rid of Black History Month and BET, Dash was not pleased that Williams tackled topics like cultural appropriation.
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But as more companies and designers find market opportunities by mining Mexican traditions and techniques, concerns are rising over when inspiration crosses over into cultural appropriation and theft.
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"This exhibition is a hostile act towards communities on the front lines fighting tenant harassment, cultural appropriation and erasure," the Chinatown Art Brigade wrote in an open letter.
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The Canadian director's "The Seven Streams of the River Ota" is set for a world tour, after his most recent productions were embroiled in debates about cultural appropriation.
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Central to many of these accusations is the idea of cultural appropriation: the adoption of the customs, practices, or ideas of one society by a member of another.
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They're also drab in comparison to the rest, which comes into focus as a grand social critique, juxtaposing cultural exchange with cultural appropriation, and insensitivity with coldblooded bigotry.
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One would have to be living under a rock to be unaware of our current frantic and impassioned conversations over issues of cultural appropriation, political correctness and bigotry.
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He refused to believe that his dressing up as a Native American is cultural appropriation, instead saying the clothing and dances "honor" Native Americans by continuing their traditions.
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At the heart of the current controversy, Sharpe tells Hyperallergic, is not so much cultural appropriation or free speech, but rather intimacy and our different relationships to violence.
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"Our decisions and actions were not intended to harm anyone, but we recognize that good intentions do not make up for ill-informed cultural appropriation," the curators wrote.
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Both Mars and Scafidi note that the internet has done a hugely successful job of bringing the concept of cultural appropriation from an academic theory to a mainstream conversation.
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The argument could be made that this wasn't cultural appropriation -- a common charge made against costumes that depict race, ethnicity or nationality in a flattened, cliché or stereotypical fashion.
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Zendaya — who was just cast as Mary Jane in the next Spider-Man reboot — has thoughts on everything from self-confidence and body image to racism and cultural appropriation.
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No one who calls out designers for cultural appropriation is attempting to kill their creative freedom — they're questioning what expense comes with the erasure of that culture and community.
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There's as much pressure to get into, say, the Camilla show as there would be those designers with less hype (and cultural appropriation), like Double Rainbouu or Lee Mathews.
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Ms O'Brien, now 88, took a risk in giving voice to a Nigerian girl who suffers horrific cruelty, especially in an age when "cultural appropriation" is often frowned upon.
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Bruno Mars Online debates about cultural appropriation — which could be broadly defined as plundering or disrespecting a minority culture for one's own artistic benefit without appropriate credit — are cyclical.
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On the panels, speakers broached issues of online bullying and bullying at school, discrimination, cultural appropriation, and the difficulties of making it in all-white and male-dominated industries.
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But the Twitterverse quickly pointed out that it appeared the musician wore her hair in dreadlocks, causing a storm of cultural appropriation accusations against the star on social media.
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The remedy for the selective application of the cultural appropriation label is not its expansion—as this would sweep in all manner of innocuous social interactions—but its retirement.
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After the video's release, Schumer was accused of cultural appropriation on social media and was lambasted for appearing to make light of the racial politics addressed in Beyonce's video.
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There is no pride in using Indigenous peoples as props in a settler fantasy; there is no pride in racist caricatures; and there is no pride in cultural appropriation.
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In a high-profile incident in 2015, the head of another residential college resigned under pressure after sending an email to students about cultural appropriation and offensive Halloween costumes.
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The effect is a poignant critique on the cultural appropriation of Native American culture by artists of European descent — in this case, Pollock's professed indebtedness to Navajo sand painting.
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The banner of cultural appropriation, though, may be too strong in this particular instance, considering the more glaring, uncomfortable, and pervasive blind spots the industry has exhibited towards race.
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Her hair was frizzy and teased-out (nothing like her usual style) ... and some people got pissed, claiming cultural appropriation and questioning why Vogue didn't use a black model.
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Kloss was previously criticized for cultural appropriation when she wore a Native American-inspired headdress as one of her looks in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show back in 2012.
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It doesn't help that cooks like Rick Bayless, the white chef who has become an authority on Mexican cooking, are being swept up in a battle over cultural appropriation.
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That's reflected in "Caught," which is anchored by a number of intersecting themes: the blurry line between truth and fiction, cultural appropriation, Chinese censorship and American views of China.
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FENGAR GAEL New York To the Editor: As a writer, a millennial and a teacher of millennials, I am disappointed by Lionel Shriver's position on cultural appropriation in fiction.
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Cultural appropriation, at its worst, can be a tool of oppression, a way to assert the dominance of white culture by absorbing and making white everything that is different.
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In recent weeks, the literary world has been at war over the idea of cultural appropriation — whether a writer has the right to tell stories about people unlike herself.
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LISA SEBASCO, 53, Oakland There's nothing offensive per se in the lyrical content of the song, but it's always smacked of being an act of "cultural appropriation" to me.
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Jordan Peele's "Get Out" is about racism and cultural appropriation, the film's get-out-the-vote team says, but also (in this #MeToo moment) about the abuse of power.
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Here the abundant photographs make it particularly difficult to ignore the fact that all the customers were white, or the cultural appropriation that both glorified and exoticized the locals.
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And whereas once borrowing inspiration (a synonym for cultural appropriation) might have been seen as an acknowledgment of the value of that creation, now it is viewed as stealing.
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The show also featured models of color, though critics of the fashion label&aposs show denounced the brand for styling white models with the cornrow wigs, alleging cultural appropriation.
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The story of American Dirt has now become a story about cultural appropriation, and about why publishing as an industry chose this particular tale of Mexican migration to champion.
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Along with fighting for their languages and land, indigenous groups also regularly find themselves defending their culture, language and knowledge against what they see as cultural appropriation by businesses.
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In almost every example of cultural appropriation he points to, he proceeds to defend a white artist who was profiting from the pain and exclusion of a marginalized group.
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"It could repel some progressive voters who are against any kind of cultural appropriation and especially blackface," said Jean-François Daoust, an expert in public opinion at McGill University.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads This week, CATS in the London tube, Shriver's cultural appropriation heard around the world, Clinton's white supremacy explainer, normalizing Trump, Gawken, and more.
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In a Connecticut stop on his "Working Out New Material" comeback tour, he complained about Twitter users debating whether a teenager's prom dress constituted cultural appropriation, according to Orbey.
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Throughout her career, Perry has ignored the line between appreciation and appropriation consistently enough to get her dubbed the "Queen of Cultural Appropriation" by the Root back in 403.
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At the same time, the show was applauded for its past-due embracement of natural hair for its models of color, as well as its reduction of cultural appropriation (ahem).
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There's a sex tape, a few DUIs, racist comments, political no-no's, cultural appropriation, deaths, armed robbery, breakups, blackmail, stalkers… and, of course, a well-known conspiracy theory or 22.
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The show will air its two-part series finale on January 20, ending a show that gave us smart commentary on social issues from cultural appropriation to women in STEM.
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The singer, who has in the past been criticized for cultural appropriation, has consciously been working to shed the naive pop star image she built up earlier in her career.
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" An American high-school student, who is not Chinese, posted pictures of herself wearing a traditional Chinese gown to her prom, setting off an intense online dispute over "cultural appropriation.
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Legions of Twiglet-limbed bloggers pontificating about the "healing benefits" of turmeric tea or a cleansing asana in their £95 Lululemon yoga pants could be seen as mild cultural appropriation.
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It is no coincidence that in toxic conversations about cultural appropriation, eating foreign food is one of the only things where people feel no shame in seeking out and trying.
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Cultural Appropriation has nothing to do with "liking" or "admiring"…it's about power and dominance and cracker wanting to control conversations and expressions of identity that don't belong to him.
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The inclusivity of blackness is its greatest strength, but is it also a weakness that allows imposters like Dolezal to assume what looks like the final form of cultural appropriation?
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Since "Hymn For The Weekend" debuted on January 29th, the internet has predictably unleashed a torrent of thinkpieces feverishly explaining why or why not the video engages in cultural appropriation.
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FRIED: Can I also say -- is that not cultural appropriation when you&aposre putting on stuff and she walks out there in the Chinese prom dress, that would be cool.
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For Sweetin, Tisdale, and anyone who might have considered this as a viable costume, please use this guide if you're unsure whether or not you might be committing cultural appropriation.
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When respect for diversity is taken to crazy extremes One of the most popular articles in Open Future looked at cultural appropriation—which we deemed "an elastic, ill-defined gripe".
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Though Cinco de Mayo is an important day of celebration and historical remembrance in Mexico, unfortunately, in America, the holiday festivities often come with a heavy dose of cultural appropriation.
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Other users on Twitter took this as an opportunity to address cultural appropriation, stereotypes, the prison industrial complex, slavery, white privilege, and even the racist responses to Dear White People.
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The Summit included a fashion show built around the intersection of fashion and climate, highlighting issues of labor rights, cultural appropriation, plastic waste, body positivity, equality, and community self-determination.
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At a time when we increasingly hear complaints about "cultural appropriation," we would all do well to remember the virtue of cross-cultural collaboration, which can bring us great art.
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From the blatant bigotry of blackface to the more nuanced ills of cultural appropriation, colleges and social organizations are seeking to establish guidelines regarding what and why certain portrayals offend.
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If I could remind those encountering the term of one thing, it would be that there's a spectrum of cultural appropriation, from harmful misappropriation to creative and often collaborative inspiration.
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The strongest part of Carlos López Estrada's hallucinatory statement about the criminal justice system, cultural appropriation, gentrification, friendship, masculinity, and mental health was Daveed Diggs's performance as its star, Collin.
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The cry of cultural appropriation is about the acknowledgement that black people did these things first, but like jazz, we are the only people who could have ever created it.
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A year ago at this time, he came under fire for cultural appropriation on the runway (remember the dreadlocks controversy?), and earlier this year Sebastian Suhl, his chief executive, left.
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In a time of deepening sensitivity about cultural appropriation, an animated film set in Afghanistan, made largely by Westerners and based on a Western source, might raise some red flags.
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In an industry in which racism and cultural appropriation is extraordinarily common, Dolce & Gabbana has made a name for itself as being one of the most unconcerned with offending others.
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He doesn't really believe in cultural appropriation, this Korean-American Southerner who brines his restaurant's fried chicken in an adobo broth, and likes his instant ramen with Saltines and mayo.
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The literary fiction community spent 20143 debating whether it was acceptable for Lionel Shriver to wear a sombrero while she talked about why she thinks cultural appropriation is a myth.
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Specific instances of what people criticize as cultural appropriation may well be wrong, but the term encourages us to call out a property crime when something else is going on.
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The story of a white suburban redhead chasing hip-hop glory may set off alarms about cultural appropriation, but the film mostly disarms them, or mixes them into the soundtrack.
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I got a message from somebody who said a photo that one of my stylists posted — braids with ribbons — was cultural appropriation and asked that I consider taking it down.
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The issue of cultural appropriation reverberated in Canada in July 2018 when a show "Slav," by the acclaimed Quebec theater director Robert Lepage, premiered at the Montreal International Jazz Festival.
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It is hard to know when or how much to get exercised over culinary cultural appropriation, when the near-entirety of modern American cooking seems dependent on remix and influence.
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In May this year, Gucci was also accused of cultural appropriation after a blue turban — which originally appeared in its 2018 fashion show — was being sold for $800 at Nordstrom.
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His desire to infuse the corporate culture of Salesforce with the "Aloha spirit" — including turning his employees' Fridays into Hawaiian shirt days — has, however, led to accusations of cultural appropriation.
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The movement is part of broader attempts to clarify the Italian explorer's role in American history and connect indigenous identity to something more than controversies about sports teams and cultural appropriation.
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By demonstrating these equivalences, White Tears proves cultural appropriation is no more a passing fad than racism or exploitation, and that all three are inescapable facts of contemporary and historical America.
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Both sisters clearly were crazy about the look, but the Internet continued to criticize the designer for the cultural appropriation that appeared to come with putting (mostly white) models in locs.
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However, Kim and her famous sisters have been accused of cultural appropriation and racial insensitivity throughout their careers, so dressing as a Black woman for Halloween prompted different reactions from fans.
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The hairstyle, which was inspired by actress Bo Derek's iconic 'do in the 1979 film 10, would lead to drama for Kardashian West, as critics called her out for cultural appropriation.
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Conversations about sexism, racism, transphobia, privilege, cultural appropriation and other social issues are all related (look up "intersectionality" to learn more), and these are complex issues that stir up our emotions.
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The fact that cultural appropriation no longer gets a pass, that such acts are now vehemently condemned when they happen (even if they happen all too frequently) is important and telling.
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The first time I saw henna on someone who wasn't from Africa or Southwest Asia was in high school on none other than the Queen of Cultural Appropriation herself, Vanessa Hudgens.
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The consultant, who is Haitian-American, the administrator, who is Chinese-American, and the fund-raiser, who is African-American, debated whether Bruno Mars's music was a form of cultural appropriation.
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The American novelist Lionel Shriver's comments last weekend defending her right to depict members of minority groups in any situation for artistic purposes set off a new backlash against cultural appropriation.
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Does the cultural appropriation debate get trickier when all involved are from marginalized groups, such as Beyoncé, a black woman, wearing Indian dress, or an Asian American dressing up as Pocahontas?
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The TV star, business mogul, and aspiring lawyer will rename her forthcoming shapewear brand of bodysuits and other Spanx-like underthings, after its original name, Kimono, raised concerns of cultural appropriation.
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According to NCAI Legislative Associate Brian Howard, such branding promotes a "stereotypical, romanticised" image of Native Americans as the "warrior savage," while the use of tribal names amounts to cultural appropriation.
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Business of Fashion published a piece entitled "Why Fashion Needs Cultural Appropriation" by Osman Ahmed that argues one of the most irresponsible equivalences I have ever had the displeasure of consuming.
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The clothes, manufactured by the likes of the Gap and H&M, still have their tags on (she returned all of what she wore) and illustrate the commodification of cultural appropriation.
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It's understandable that as a result, we've landed on treating cultural appropriation as a bad habit to be trained out of us; often it feels easier not to engage at all.
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All of them replace the fiction of cultural authenticity — and, by implication, the oversimplified idea of "cultural appropriation" — with a far broader constellation of terms: translation, simulation, exchange, conquest, recombination, hybridity.
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Charges of cultural appropriation are being hurled at every corner of American life: the art museum, the restaurant, the movie theater, the fashion show, the novel and, especially, the college campus.
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Day of the Dead Barbie: The release of a new version of the doll adorned with motifs associated with Día de Muertos, a Mexican holiday, has raised concerns about cultural appropriation.
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Day of the Dead Barbie: The release of a new version of the doll adorned with motifs associated with Día de Muertos, a Mexican holiday, has raised concerns about cultural appropriation.
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"I do think that the conversation about cultural appropriation is incredibly important, but I also think that there is a danger sometimes of going too far toward silencing people," she said.
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A good case in point is the current fashion for denouncing "cultural appropriation," which denotes the use by people of one culture (especially privileged ones) of the symbols or ideas of another.
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Female entrepreneur Sarah Marantz Lindenberg, the founder of NiteCap, has encountered cultural appropriation backlash for selling a silk head wrap that draws comparisons to sleep bonnets worn by black women for centuries.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A U.S. high school student accused of cultural appropriation for her Chinese-style prom dress is receiving support online from some of the very people her critics say she offended.
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The question of cultural appropriation is a touchy one for Gud, made even touchier by his mixed-race heritage—"My problem is I can't decide" on a racial identity, he tells me.
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As with any other form of cultural appropriation, it's a problem because there are power dynamics at play: When straight women declare themselves femme they dilute the word's connection with queer history.
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We caught up with Akhuetie to talk Mary J. Blige, the difference between cultural appropriation and appreciation, and more... What was the hardest part about starting a business as a young woman?
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They might want to specialize a little more, but they might get into dangerous waters where they do something that sounds like cultural appropriation, or something that is just off, or stereotypical.
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Last year, months before he walked on stage at the Grammys to collect his trophy for Album of the Year, singer Bruno Mars was at the center of another cultural appropriation firestorm.
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Sally Anderson, a life coach, reportedly got the tattoo as an homage to New Zealand&aposs indigenous Maori culture, but some are saying it&aposs offensive on the grounds of cultural appropriation.
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And, though we can't officially draw the cultural appropriation card, since these pieces don't actually have traditional Chinese origins, we can gauge whether or not a trend is due for a comeback.
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Most of these white women have significant Instagram followings, and most of them feel immune to criticisms of cultural appropriation—at least until a controversial Twitter thread called them out last week.
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We're always having conversations about cultural appropriation, consent, body shaming and correct pronouns with people who come into the space who might not be as 'aware' as we'd like them to be.
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Ignoring the potential charge of cultural appropriation—borrowing a real-world culture for an American popcorn film—the use of Xhosa did at least give a suitably foreign flair to the setting.
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At a time in the U.S. when political and social tensions seem to be coming to a head, the conversation of privilege and cultural appropriation has spilled over into the food world.
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"There are now big conversations at Oberlin, where I went to college, about cultural appropriation and whether the dining hall sushi and Banh Mi disrespect certain cuisines," the actress told Food & Wine.
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If this "cultural appropriation stuff" is making her crazy, then maybe she should use her platform to address it and fight it, rather than pass it off as something that doesn't matter.
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Social media users are accusing the Baywatch star, 52, of cultural appropriation after she tweeted two photos of herself wearing nothing but white underwear and a traditional Native American headdress on Halloween.
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Briefly, my address maintained that fiction writers should be allowed to write fiction — thus should not let concerns about "cultural appropriation" constrain our creation of characters from different backgrounds than our own.
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The event, the Brisbane Writers Festival, which ended Sunday, also hurriedly organized counterprogramming, billed as a "right of reply" for critics of Ms. Shriver, whose speech belittled the movement against cultural appropriation.
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Ms. Shriver, the author of 13 novels, who is best known for her 2003 book, "We Need to Talk About Kevin," was especially critical of efforts to stop novelists from cultural appropriation.
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She wrote, "I had some reservations regarding both costume choices" and about cultural appropriation, noting the "power" and "privilege" carried by "whiteness" and the standards of beauty that go along with it.
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On July 2000, Kardashian West put out a call to her fans asking them for names they liked after the brand's original name, Kimono Solutionwear, was met with accusations of cultural appropriation.
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As one Twitter user pointed out, this isn't MAC's first brush with cultural appropriation — and the brand is certainly not alone in the beauty and fashion space to be guilty of it.
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Avoiding costumes that could be a form of cultural appropriation on Halloween should be blatantly obvious, but without fail every year someone wears a problematic costume that can ruin the holiday fun.
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He worried that he would be accused of cultural appropriation and see himself condemned to a Hollywood hall of shame for filmmakers charged with abusing ethnic folklore out of ignorance or prejudice.
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That was fine for the purple carpet, since it was connected to the movie, but taken out of context and plunked on a European catwalk could easily prompt charges of cultural appropriation.
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In 2015, students accused the campus dining department and Bon Appétit Management Company, the main dining vendor, of cultural appropriation and insensitivity, criticizing what they saw as poor attempts at multicultural cooking.
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That vision provided many celebrated fashion images, like a July 1990 cover of a 16-year-old Kate Moss wearing a Native American headdress, which would nowadays be seen as cultural appropriation.
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Or the fact that, as Alexander Fury pointed out in T magazine apropos of the Marc Jacobs uproar, fashion has been engaged in one form or another of cultural appropriation for decades.
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It also falls right into the roiling argument over art and cultural appropriation — how the stories of marginalized people should be told and who should be given the platforms to tell them.
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The craving for spices still brings the risk of exploitation, both economically, as farmers in the developing world see only a sliver of the profits, and in the form of cultural appropriation.
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But the accusation of "cultural appropriation" is overwhelmingly being used as an objection to syncretism — the mixing of different thoughts, religions, cultures and ethnicities that often ends up creating entirely new ones.
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"It would be a shame if her attempt to assume the voice of an African girl were to be seen only, or even primarily, as an act of cultural appropriation," he wrote.
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Her 2012 play, "We Are Proud to Present a Presentation …," about genocide in a German colony in Africa, presciently examined issues of cultural appropriation and representation in history through metatheatrical game-playing.
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The increasingly blurry distinctions between "Black culture" and "American culture"—and what constitutes cultural appropriation, or straight-up idea theft—is hotly discussed with every cornrowed Instagram look worn by Kylie Jenner.
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And he began by poking pointed fun at Gucci for "putting white guys in turbans," a reference to a recent cultural appropriation brouhaha that suggested the show would not be without currency.
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The show has been criticized in the past for having an impulse to criticize things, such as the rhetoric around political correctness and cultural appropriation, without having anything in particular to say.
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"The idea that Lil Nas X is perpetuating some form of cultural appropriation by recording and having success in the country genre is simply absurd," pop culture commentator Jawn Murray told me.
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And by demanding bans on "cultural appropriation" or the giving of offense, many adopt ideas about identity, culture and free speech that give more comfort to the sectarians than to those challenging them.
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Midtown 120 Blues is an explicitly political work addressing themes such as queer identity, structural violence, and mass cultural appropriation, with Thaemlitz expressing herself through the filter of luxurious, impossibly gorgeous deep house.
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According to The Guardian, Peterson has drawn the ire of social justice circles for refusing to call transgender people by their identified gender and for rebuking ideas like cultural appropriation and white privilege.
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Robert Jago, an indigenous writer, says that cultural appropriation leads to "the hypersexualised view" of indigenous women, the myth of the drunken Indian and the "football-mascot-inspired stereotype of the violent warrior".
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The do-or-die way we talk about cultural appropriation has somehow made it easier to punish those who have the most to learn, and reward those who know just the bare minimum.
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"Cultural appropriation is defined as 'the act of taking intellectual and cultural expressions from a culture that is not your own, without showing that you understand or respect the culture'," the flier read.
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When the movie Dear White People was released in 2014, it was heralded for shaking up the conversation about how students of color experience racism and cultural appropriation on predominantly white college campuses.
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Disney didn't just commit cultural appropriation when it locked down the rights to "Hakuna Matata," the company actually stole the saying from an incredibly popular Kenyan band ... this according to the group's frontman.
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Hadid posed for the very first cover of Vogue Arabia in March 2017 wearing an embellished hijab, and while some praised her, others accused her of cultural appropriation and exploiting her own background.
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This realization set Fabien-Ouellet on an exploration that culminated into a research paper entitled "Poutine Dynamics," published in the journal CuiZine, which argues that poutine is undergoing the process of cultural appropriation.
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But Perry also confesses that she didn't realize she'd hurt people through cultural appropriation on her own and credits conversations with people such as her "empowered angel Cleo [Wade]" for opening her eyes.
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This is why Bean — who promises upcoming heavy-hitting episodes about cultural appropriation and Black mental health — doubts a comedy like Grown-ish will return to the subjects of sexual assault and consent.
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While black America has a long history with our imagined Africas, access to real-life African people's opinions of our homeland fantasies are newer, along with terminology—like "cultural appropriation"—for describing them.
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The production also raised thorny questions about how to differentiate cultural appreciation from cultural appropriation and accusations, fairly or not, that its white creators had engaged in a modern-day form of blackface.
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That's the premise of this Netflix comedy, directed by Charles Stone III, that raises questions about cultural appropriation and stereotyping even as it progresses with the playful feel of a jokey teen drama.
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Although the film started a debate about cultural appropriation, it pays tribute to Japanese masters like Akira Kurosawa and will almost certainly prove deeply affecting for those who have canines in their lives.
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This was cultural appropriation in its earliest, positive sense, as used by sociologists in the 1970s to identify how groups outside the mainstream borrow from the presiding culture and make it their own.
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The wigs have gotten much scrutiny from the internet, with some calling the look cultural appropriation — especially since the fashion house used majority white models for an aesthetic strongly linked to black culture.
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Of course he is speaking to us as well, and much of what he says is eye-opening even in the midst of the theater's current conversation about cultural appropriation and racial representation.
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In the earlier seasons of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Kim Kardashian, whose own aesthetic often triggers accusations of cultural appropriation, poked fun at her younger sister Khloe's style insinuating that it was 'ghetto.
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"I guess I'll just stick to baseball and hot dogs, and that's it," Perry half joked during her Prism album cycle, responding to criticisms of cultural appropriation with an attempt to satirize white culture.
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Last week, a pink Balenciaga hoodie that features an airbrushed design of the New York City skyline (and retails for $895) led Twitter users to claim that Balenciaga had, once again, committed cultural appropriation.
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The most sanctimonious on the right believe that cultural appropriation is a meaningless phrase that willfully ignores intent; that people should have the right to celebrate what they find beautiful without criticism or abuse.
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By extension, if cultural appropriation supposes that a form of theft has taken place, it's less helpful to call out the thieves than ask why it's so profitable to steal in the first place.
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When it came to Armie Hammer's Steve Lift, the costume designer looked to real-life figures like Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and Julian Assange, sprinkling in a bunch of cultural appropriation for good measure.
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Morgan criticized liberals for praising Rihanna and co, while also accusing Keziah Daum, a teenager at the center of controversy last week because she wore a traditionally Chinese gown to prom, of cultural appropriation.
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That is because cultural appropriation is less about cultural disrespect or intolerance—for which much clearer terminology already exists—than about reinforcing the oppressor-oppressed binary through which social-justice advocates see the world.
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Without fail, these costumes are met with an outcry from social media and members of the Latin American community, calling them out for cultural appropriation and insensitivity to the true meaning of the holiday.
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In lieu of self-realization (and in the name of good ol' fashioned cultural appropriation) he takes the yak butter idea and creates an entire industry around Bulletproof-branded powders, potions, pills, and cookbooks.
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Despite some Internet critics accusing the star of cultural appropriation by wearing the blonde afro to Ross' celebration, Kardashian, 34, loves her look so much that she decided to wear it one more day.
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The video changed things for Stenberg and put her at the forefront of recent conversations about cultural appropriation — a role she says was "daunting" at first to fill, but that she now thrives in.
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The Strange series has had its whitewashing criticism and should be wary of cultural appropriation, but in the right hands – including Boyega's – this character could emerge and even take over for Strange one day.
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"The first thing I want to emphasize is that when we talk about cultural appropriation of poutine, it's not when people cook, eat, or adapt to poutine outside of Quebec's borders," Fabien-Ouellet says.
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I found this whole subject interesting because when it comes to cultural appropriation, it's like, dudes, there's nothing we could do more for that culture and promoting it and taking it to the world!
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" On Twitter, she promoted a recent episode of "Girl Meets World" like this: "tn's ep of GMW we talk about how (gasp!) there's a world outside of America & cultural appreciation rather than cultural appropriation :).
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But the critics of the Ghost in the Shell adaptation make a series of presumptions that end up obscuring a more complex tale of cultural appropriation, or what we might more generously call hybridization.
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But, seeing as it is in fact 2016, and blatant cultural appropriation and blackface are frowned upon, why on Earth would you ever choose to share this photot with the world, and proudly so?
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So, in order to avoid yourself rehashing the same conversations you have weekend after weekend about the future of the left, cultural appropriation and your own anxieties, here are 50 fool-proof conversation starters.
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Yet they're hardly an anomaly in the fashion industry: Criticism is growing of instances of racism, sexism, body shaming, or cultural appropriation by fashion brands, and the fallout seems to only be getting messier.
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As far as I could tell, the panelists—Black-ish creator Kenya Barris, Jamaican British American comedian Ian Edwards, and Chinese Korean American rapper Awkwafina—could all plausibly call themselves authorities on cultural appropriation.
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He mocked the early summer uproar over cultural appropriation and a white girl from Utah who wore a cheongsam to prom, and sighed at those who criticized "The Simpsons" for the Indian character Apu.
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The uproar over Lucky Lee's, which opened on Monday, has become the latest front in the debate over cultural appropriation and cultural arrogance, following controversies involving, among many others, Dolce & Gabbana and Miley Cyrus.
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Cultural appropriation is a touchy topic in Canada these days, with the recent controversy in Canadian media over whether it is appropriate for nonindigenous writers to take on a native voice for artistic expression.
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Trudeau has previously been criticized for donning costumes that some have accused of bordering on cultural appropriation, such as the traditional Indian garb he and his family wore during an official visit in 2018.
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More than anything else I saw this year, "Master," directed by Taibi Magar, addressed and exemplified (in real artworks, many by Wardell Milan) the question of cultural appropriation that everyone else only talked about.
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After sharing photos of Kenzo Kash's cowboys-and-Indians party over the weekend, the Irresponsible comedian, 39, and his wife Eniko were slammed by fans and followers who viewed the party's theme as cultural appropriation.
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It generated almost as many thinkpieces about tourism, insensitivity, and cultural appropriation as it did essays from other women who shared Gilbert's yearning: for escapism, for absolution, for romantic freedom, for a brand-new life.
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Below, she opens up about her inspirations, her feelings on cultural appropriation, and her advice for people like me, who just can't figure out how to make jewelry a seamless part of their everyday wardrobe.
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" While Cyrus has been accused of cultural appropriation in the past, this time many commenters were pleased with her efforts — and the credit she gave to the culture and tradition from which henna comes. "Oww!!!
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The moment to practice cultural exchange and appreciation, instead of cultural appropriation and commodification, is long overdue, and marginalized, oppressed people are sick and tired of having to explain these facts over and over again.
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Consider, for example, Corden's karaoke stint with the boy king Justin Bieber: Or his segment with Iggy Azalea: Adele doesn't need an image boost the way Azalea needed one after being accused of cultural appropriation.
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According to her critics, she was borrowing, sans attribution, elements of a vibrant culture that has sustained the neighborhood for decades; in other words, accusers said, La Gracia was a textbook case of cultural appropriation.
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Cultural appropriation is both a real phenomenon—responsible for rock-n-roll and the Washington Redskins alike—and a ripe target for criticism and mockery, since the concept renders nearly every garment or foodstuff fraught.
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Cyrus has spent the last few years wandering through the artistic wilderness, a journey that's involved fewer peaks (remember "Wrecking Ball"?) than valleys (wanton cultural appropriation, picking fights with Nicki Minaj, musical and chemical experimentation).
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At the risk of divulging spoilers, I'll just say that the film finds a way to sneak in the idea of cultural appropriation being destructive … while still, of course, being a prime example of it.
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For all the calls for diversity and blasts on cultural appropriation in and around Hollywood, we rarely see opportunities to call out the source of it all — the widespread and institutionalized practice of prioritizing whiteness.
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On the other hand, Jouannot points out that claims of cultural appropriation are often most serious when they involve histories of unequal power dynamics such as colonialism between the appropriating culture and the origin culture.
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For example, perpetrators of cultural appropriation often don't understand that they are demeaning someone else's culture — because they are ignorant of the origin, the way they interact with feathers or headdresses or hairstyles is demeaning.
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Although the term cultural appropriation has been overused to the point where the meaning seems to have eroded, the reality is that it's a form of oppression that marginalized communities are forced to deal with.
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A strange combination of Mark Rothko compositions with the spirit of an anarchist teenager, Birk's work hinges on innocent and even naïve cultural appropriation, but also directly engages with the city as a physical location.
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Memes aren't exactly the most important fault lines for discussions about cultural appropriation, but instances like these are examples of inside jokes being mined for street cred as the cultures that created them are ignored.
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South Korea, however, is one of the most ethnically homogenous countries in the world, so Chikk says the artists and entertainment companies are still learning to find that "happy medium" between cultural appropriation and appreciation.
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Rosy Simas and Christopher K. Morgan, a Native Hawaiian choreographer, joined Sara Nash of the New England Foundation for the Arts to discuss cultural appropriation, Redface, and other forms of colonial racism in artistic practice.
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In discussion with Laâbissi after her performance, Carole Maccotta — an assistant professor of Foreign Languages and Literature at Long Island University specializing, appropriately, in colonial literature and cultural appropriation — did not bring up the headdress.
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So when one episode ends with everybody (sigh) dancing Bollywood-style, it feels like a fun trip back to that year we all spent arguing about whether Miley Cyrus twerking was cultural appropriation or not.
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Then, last season, after multiple racial and cultural appropriation offenses by a variety of brands, diversity and inclusion were the focus of the day, leading to the most genuinely mixed catwalks fashion has ever seen.
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If we look at her story this way, it's a case study in cultural appropriation: borrowing from a culture that isn't your own, profiting from it, and dropping it when it no longer suits you.
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The novel, already being adapted into a movie, has become the latest flashpoint in a growing debate about representation, cultural appropriation and whether artists can -- or should -- tell stories about identities they don't know firsthand.
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That denies audiences across the country the opportunity to participate in face-to-face discussions with Ms. Cummins about the issues that are being raised around cultural appropriation and who gets to tell our stories.
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SONIA LEVITIN, LOS ANGELES To the Editor: Cultural appropriation does not need to be defended as an artistic privilege; Western folks feel that they are entitled to any material regardless of community or cultural rights.
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Read more:How the Kardashian-Jenners have changed over the past decadeKim Kardashian West has been accused of cultural appropriation again after wearing an Indian headpieceHere are all the times Kylie Jenner was accused of plagiarizing
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The article, by reporter Vimal Patel, digs into one of the most infamous cases of alleged excess by overly sensitive students: the 2015 controversy at Oberlin College about alleged "cultural appropriation" in dining hall dishes.
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She cites the example of cultural appropriation: The fetishization of black women's aesthetic is rampant in white culture, but that's not a new phenomenon, Imani explains, and she aims to educate people about that fact.
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Aesthetically, there is much wonder to behold, and Girard's exquisite taste in his practice is unquestionable, but viewed through a post-postmodern framework, there is also something to be said regarding cultural appropriation and colonialism.
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The tribe filed a lawsuit in New Mexico in March 2012 over the cultural appropriation of its name and aesthetic, after concerns were first raised over the striking similarities (and cribbed moniker) back in October 2011.
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While those in the industry lauded the designer and others took to Twitter to cry cultural appropriation, one thing is clear: The girls who actually walked in the show couldn't get enough of their new look.
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Accusations of whitewashing and cultural appropriation have dogged some recent adaptations, and the resulting works are often rejected by critics as confusing and uncommitted, and by fans as sloppy, compromised, and disrespectful to the original work.
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Halloween is almost here – and a costume for little girls has prompted oh-so sensitive and oh-so politically correct progressives to get all worked up over cultural appropriation, white privilege and the oppression of minorities.
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Students called out the school's dining services for cultural appropriation in the Oberlin Review and quickly got national attention as not only the subject of mockery, but also an example of culture clash on college campuses.
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And I still don't actually buy the Ghost in the Shell whitewashing issue either, and I certainly don't buy into the cultural appropriation bullshit because that's saying that only Asians are allowed to do martial arts.
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She and many others have pointed out that black suffering is not a material that white artists can just make use of, like oil paint or videotape—an argument made in many debates over cultural appropriation.
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To frequent laughter from the audience, Ms. Shriver warned that the anti-cultural-appropriation movement that began in America had already reached Britain — where she lives most of the year — and might be headed to Australia.
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To put the cultural appropriation debate into perspective, I reached out to professor Susan Scafidi, the founder and academic director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School and the author of Who Owns Culture?
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The rest is rock history, as the blues has been transplanted, revamped, venerated, repeatedly rediscovered and sometimes plundered, with its ideas ricocheting across cultural and geographical divides long before the more recent discussions about cultural appropriation.
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To make his point, the Canadian director renamed his latest project, "Kanata," which was briefly canceled in July after an outcry about cultural appropriation, then revived, and, ultimately, had its world premiere in Paris on Saturday.
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The role that readers play in shaping children's books has become a flash point in a fractious debate about diversity, cultural appropriation and representation, with some arguing that the reliance on sensitivity readers amounts to censorship.
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Jackson was also part of the chorus of voices denouncing "Blood Heir," an ironic twist that was seized upon by observers who claim the movement to police potential cultural appropriation in literature has gone too far.
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It's an effective summary of the book, which tackles the slippery concept of cultural appropriation in everything from the rise and fall of Vine (RIP) to the proliferation of Real Housewives of Atlanta reaction GIFs online.
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While some people praised Jenner&aposs look or said the star should be able to wear her hair however she wants, others expressed anger and concern regarding the hairstyle, calling it an example of cultural appropriation.
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The scene brought a visual vocabulary to the oppression that black people felt in the face of white supremacy and served as a commentary on race, slavery, and cultural appropriation through the lens of Chris's character.
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From celebrities who still don't get it (Ashley Tisdale and Chris Hemsworth, we expected better of you) to actual physical violence erupting around offensive costumes, it's clear we need to have yet another talk about cultural appropriation.
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Despite receiving a bit of backlash for showing so much skin on social media and wearing cornrow braids many fans viewed as cultural appropriation, the mom-of-three is standing behind her "nude selfies for life" mantra.
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But the tone is entirely different: Bodied is a comedy and a thriller as well as a drama, and its tongue-in-cheek, confrontational sarcasm about everything from cultural appropriation to race stereotypes is startling and refreshing.
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But as the discussion around cultural appropriation has intensified, and Halloween approaches again, I've looked back on my past Halloween costumes with a critical eye and realised at least of couple were maybe (definitely) a bit tasteless.
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Kardashian had, meanwhile, been accused of cultural appropriation prior to this incident when she attended one of her husband's musical performances known as "Sunday service" wearing what appear to be a maang tikka, an Indian head ornament.
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It's one thing to criticize Malone for cultural appropriation, express a distaste for his face tattoos (as Kevin Hart did Monday night during the VMAs), or claim that "Rockstar" is the most overplayed track of all time.
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Swerving among dance, storytelling and music-making — the instruments included a laptop, a guitar, a tuning fork and a stainless-steel bowl — it stirs up questions about authenticity, racial identity and cultural appropriation that evade easy answers.
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According to the founder, Michael Brody, it was shut down because of local complaints that it was a predominantly black club in the neighborhood—and these questions, involving racism, accessibility, and cultural appropriation, still remain relevant today.
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Protests over cultural sensitivity have long been a staple at Oberlin College, a liberal arts school tucked into the cornfields of Ohio, where students have spoken out about everything from microaggressions to the cultural appropriation of sushi.
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" The movie's plot involves rich people who mock an unnamed president and raise concerns about cultural "appropriation" and gendered language while hunting people who are characterized as "rednecks," own guns and express aspirations to be on "Hannity.
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On-going communication about the project, and then on the film set, had a shared aim: moving away from clichés in order to avoid the cultural appropriation and subversion that so often taints images representing Native peoples.
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He is the best rebuttal to both Trumpian populism and the multicultural separatist movements on the left, who believe in separate graduation ceremonies by race, or that the normal exchange of ideas among people represents cultural appropriation.
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In 2016, in a speech at an Australian writers festival that addressed accusations of cultural appropriation in her novel "The Mandibles," she warned about the "supersensitivity" of identity politics and charged that it could amount to censorship.
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Not even two weeks ago, he sent the fashion industry in a tailspin with his article calling Business of Fashion out for cultural appropriation and exploitation on the heels of their BoF 500 499 cover and gala.
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More recently, Rihanna, Amandla Stenberg, and Uzo Aduba have worn the style; but so have white celebrities like Bjork, Gwen Stefani, and Khloe Kardashian, who faced accusations of cultural appropriation when she wore the look in 2016.
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Lucky Cat is just one of a handful of white-led "Lucky" Asian restaurants that have been accused of cultural appropriation, trafficking in hoary Orientalist stereotypes — think potted bamboo, paper lanterns, and Buddha heads — and white savior-ism.
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The BET Awards delivered on their promise of epic performances, Prince tributes and more—but also included a stirring sermon from 2016 BET Humanitarian Award recipient Jesse Williams, who spoke on racial justice, police brutality and cultural appropriation.
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At the same time, CGI tech is also shaking up popular culture by giving rise to fictional models like Shudu and Lil Miquela, who are even nabbing real fashion gigs while raising questions about ethics and cultural appropriation.
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Cultural appropriation is a serious issue, and I'm not naïve enough to believe that Kylie Jenner hasn't been aware of the many ways she has appropriated and commodified Black culture both in the past, and apparently still today.
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But on-screen greatness aside, there is no denying that Peele updated the entire horror genre while also shifting the public perception of cultural appropriation, liberal racism, and the dangerous complicity of white women in all of it.
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In December, the star addressed critics who accused her of cultural appropriation for dressing up as the late '90s R&B singer Aaliyah for Halloween, defending her choice by saying she does not see color in her home.
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"This" meaning the blatant cultural appropriation of taking a hairstyle that Black women all over the world have been mocked for or told that they are "unprofessional" for wearing and using it on white models to sell clothes.
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That Reason distributed these images at a private party in promotion of its keynote speaker is further testament to the right's lack of understanding of the actual issues that surround "cultural appropriation" and make it a sensitive subject.
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Stanford eliminated its own Indian mascot in the 1970s over concerns of insensitive cultural appropriation; one common depiction on merchandise featured a cartoonlike Native American with a large round nose and feathers sticking out of its hair. Gov.
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Lauren Michele Jackson's White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue...and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation, a look at how black culture has been appropriated by everyone from the Kardashians to Christina Aguilera, is well worth a read.
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The women will be joined by guests Chelsea Handler, Will Smith, Alicia Keys and Robyn Crawford in the new episodes, with topics ranging from cultural appropriation and LGBTQ issues to gender equality and addiction, according to Facebook Watch.
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He is unapologetic in his cultural appropriation, including from indigenous groups he's not a member of, to suggest how identity and aesthetics continue to be seen — and misinterpreted — through settler eyes for indigenous communities in Canada and beyond.
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Women of color concerned about cultural appropriation point out that while they are often shamed for wearing their hair in ways that reflect their ethnic heritage, white women who "borrow" these styles are typically praised for being innovators.
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Mr. Wilson discussed the rhythmic ritual that moves in a counterclockwise circle with shuffling feet and also screened video excerpts from different styles of African dance and contemporary pieces to show, among other things, how cultural appropriation works.
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After the incident, his comedy took on a different tone: In a fall 2018 appearance, he made fun of online debates about cultural appropriation and complained that nowadays, "everyone weighs in on everything," according to the New Yorker.
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Phillips now wishes to travel to the students' Covington Catholic High School and talk with them about "cultural appropriation, racism, and the importance of listening to and respecting diverse cultures," according to a release from the Indigenous Peoples Movement.
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Peele doesn't disguise the story's application to current social fears about cultural appropriation and assimilation, or about prejudice, abuse of power, and the reckless, unchecked use of authority that produced casualties like Darrien Hunt, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice.
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For one second, let's ignore the problematic way Khloé Kardashian has described the hoops she has a penchant for wearing (yes, she called them "hoochie hoops"), or whispers of the cultural appropriation associated with the reality star's signature accessory.
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On Saturday, June 10, Perry sat down with Black Lives Matter activist Deray McKesson to discuss her troubled history with cultural appropriation and what it means to have white privilege, which aired on his podcast, Pod Save The People.
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The plain truth of the matter is that the shrillest critics of cultural appropriation — ethnic and racial minorities — are so culturally bankrupt in their own minds that the thought of others partaking in their contributions fills them with angst.
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Black Twitter has become a virtual office water cooler for engaging in discourse on everything from cultural appropriation (which Ms. Stenberg, who received the Young, Black and Gifted award, addressed in a viral video) to inside jokes like #growingupblack.
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What I can say for sure is that had I read this piece in a bubble, without knowing about the accusations of cultural appropriation beforehand, I probably wouldn't have thought twice about how the tale might affect Native Americans.
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We poked around a little, and the only problematic thing we've come up with so far is this 2009 photo of Fletcher dressed as a Native American for Halloween, a costume that's come to be understood as cultural appropriation.
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These were pretty abominable examples of cultural appropriation; the white performers stole slave songs, which popularized African-American culture and music with mainstream audiences, but they played up ignorant stereotypes, portraying blackface characters as dumb, buffoonish, lazy, and superstitious.
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That's what happens when he enters a juicy virtual discussion about Presley, white supremacy, black heritage and cultural appropriation that features Van Jones, Chuck D and the TV auteur David Simon ("The Wire"), who are united through the editing.
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" Mr. Lepage said that over his long career, he had "devoted entire shows denouncing injustices done throughout history to specific cultural groups, without actors from said groups" and "without anyone accusing me of cultural appropriation, let alone of racism.
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The controversy surrounding "Blood Heir," and Ms. Zhao's swift and dramatic decision to withdraw the work just months before publication, has further fueled a skirmish in the world of young adult literature over racial representation, diversity and cultural appropriation.
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What I found when I got there is that, while most instances of cultural appropriation completely disregard the original communities, the people whom I met did the exact opposite: They are in constant communication with Los Angeles lowrider communities.
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As part of her scathing letter, Greenbaum listed several other positions that she now thinks some might consider controversial, such as "safe spaces" being foolish, members of MS-13 being animals and accusations of "cultural appropriation" doing more harm than good.
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The actor-activist spoke out about racial issues, social justice and even cultural appropriation in the applaud-inducing speech – the address prompted a Twitter debate and even landed Justin Timberlake in the hot seat after he tweeted about the speech.
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And though the last 10 years have included a series of highs ("Party in the U.S.A.", a true banger) and lows (shameless cultural appropriation, a true disappointment), Cyrus seems to be settling back into her country roots as of late.
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It's not surprising, either, as the band has been accused of cultural appropriation in the past — the music video for 2012's Rihanna-featuring "Princess of China" was slammed for stylized, generalized Asian stereotypes that weren't necessarily related to China itself.
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What would our debates about fiction look like, I sometimes wonder, if our preferred verbal container for the phenomenon of writing about others was not "cultural appropriation" but rather "interpersonal voyeurism" or "profound-other-fascination" or even "cross-epidermal reanimation"?
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Too often, fashion designers draw inspiration from Black hairstyles but, instead of hiring models of color, or properly crediting the styles' history, they slap locs and cornrows on white models and dub them trendy (cue the cries of cultural appropriation).
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The sisters' cultural appropriation of Black women that had been apparent over the years became less blurry and more blatant when Black artists and designers straight called out Khloe Kardashian and Kendall and Kylie Jenner for ripping off their designs.
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The actor and activist received the Humanitarian Award at the ceremony for his efforts to raise awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement and continued those efforts in his acceptance speech, touching on racial issues, social justice and cultural appropriation.
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When the second half of the season picks up after the spring finale, Zoey and her friends find themselves at dramatic crossroads in their relationships, academics and adulthood, all while exploring topics such as cultural appropriation, mental health and academic scandal.
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Confusion over what is art and what constitutes cultural appropriation abounds in the fashion industry; the military has standards in place for how those actively serving our country must maintain their hair, and too many people still associate dreadlocks with unprofessionalism.
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And when Katy Perry was selected to perform in 2015, some saw the choice as boring and basic, while others saw it as the NFL signaling that it's okay with cultural appropriation; in the end, a dancing shark stole the show.
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The argument for the other side, that Michele also seems to endorse, is that cultural appropriation is just misinterpreted cultural appreciation — and that performing as other cultures and using from them for your own purposes is just a form of celebration.
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At a time when cultural appropriation has become a highly contested battleground, distinguishing between who is doing the appropriating and how groups are affected by such actions seems to be a basic first step in bringing nuance to the discussion.
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"My feeling is because tiki is weird cultural appropriation in general—it's sort of the way it is, it's a weird bastardization of a whole bunch of cultures—we're sort of twisting the tiki culture of the past," Windak says.
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Kim Kardashian West has been accused of cultural appropriation after crediting actress Bo Derek as the inspiration for her cornrows – which she even dubbed 'Bo Derek braids' – and now the woman she name-checked is coming to the reality star's defense.
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Recent artistic controversies about the cultural appropriation of trauma, as in Sam Durant's Scaffold (2012) and Dana Schutz's Open Casket (2016), are often framed as big picture questions about free speech and identity, but they pivot on subtle questions of tone.
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Wearing a sombrero, Ms. Shriver spoke out against "cultural appropriation" as a valid critique, arguing that it censored her work as a writer, that she would not have free rein to fully imagine others' perspectives and widen her world of characters.
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The complaint seems to be less that some people ask writers to think about cultural appropriation, and more that a writer wishes her work not to be critiqued for doing so, that instead she get a gold star for trying.
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"Can someone please explain to me what is the difference between a white person wearing this and being called out for cultural appropriation and Beyoncé, a black woman, doing the exact same and not being told anything?" the user griped.
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And while its racial undertones aren't particularly nuanced, the idea of "cultural appropriation" is touched upon when it's exposed that the black team, the Clovers, are having their routines stolen, and essentially sanitised, by Dunst's predominately white team, the Toros.
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But the tale that begins "When I was 10, I realized that I was black" is not the cozy cultural appropriation fable of "Bring It On." Not because of its unhappy ending, but because it centers the black female experience.
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The simmering debate over cultural appropriation took another turn on Wednesday, when the Writers Union of Canada apologized for a magazine editorial defending the right of white authors to create characters from other backgrounds, and announced that its author had resigned.
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Besides Will, the women are set to be joined this season by guests Chelsea Handler, Alicia Keys and Robyn Crawford in forthcoming episodes, with topics ranging from cultural appropriation and LGBTQ issues to gender equality and addiction, according to Facebook Watch.
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" The hard part for Miuccia, as she told WWD in January, is that "people want respect because now there is talk of cultural appropriation, but this is the foundation of fashion, as it has always been the basis of art, of everything.
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Because as popular as his shows were among some, they also generated significant controversy: Lilley has been called out for cultural appropriation for playing characters like Jonah, who was Tongan, in addition playing a Japanese mom and a Black rapper in Angry Boys.
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Defending a Cowboys-and-Indians-Themed Birthday Party Before stepping down as Oscars host, Hart and his wife were under fire for planning their son Kenzo's first birthday party with a cowboys-and-Indians theme — which some critics viewed as cultural appropriation.
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Lam told BuzzFeed News that he decided to call out Daum's tweet because "racism against Asian-Americans is often pushed to the side" and that he wanted to get the message out that he believed it was a form of cultural appropriation.
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"I felt like in a lot of ways, people thought that I was a parody rapper and just some idiot Iggy Azalea type," she says, referring to the white rapper who's been called out for cultural appropriation, the frustration in her voice discernible.
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Gwen Stefani, too, used her baby bangs in the '90s to add to her alt look (although we highly recommend avoiding her Bindi-wearing cultural appropriation of the same era), while musician Grimes wears her statement fringe framed with long bubblegum-pink hair.
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We got a preview of this shift with Jordan Peele's 2017 directorial debut, Get Out, where he combined the conventions of both horror and comedy to nail down the unique trappings of liberal racism, while highlighting the subtle dangers of cultural appropriation.
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In conversations with EXP Edition, its managers, fans, and critics, we go inside the wildly popular world of K-pop, and explore questions of where the line between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation is drawn—along with who should actually draw it.
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Some of the earliest examples of black cultural appropriation can be found in minstrel shows: vaudeville acts in which white performers would paint their skin tar black and create poor mimicries of the cultural traditions and speech patterns of slaves and free blacks.
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However, ongoing debates about representation, repatriation, and cultural appropriation — all cannily encapsulated in Killmonger's memorable visit to the Museum of Great Britain in Black Panther — affirm that a great deal of work is still needed to make our museums truly welcoming and diverse.
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The article also touches on what she's learned from her more questionable beauty transformations, many of which rang of cultural appropriation, including dressing up as a geisha for the 2013 AMAs and wearing cornrows in her "This Is How We Do," music video.
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The 35-year-old singer sent out a string of apology tweets after facing backlash for writing that he was "#inspired" by Williams' moving speech at the award show in which he spoke out about racial issues, social justice and cultural appropriation.
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She offered withering jokes about how the world's burning (true!) and also did some sort of strange pantomime around the phrase "wig snatched," as if she hadn't spent a good chunk of the press cycle around Witness literally apologizing for cultural appropriation.
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An article on Tuesday about a controversy at the Brisbane Writers Festival in Australia, where the American novelist Lionel Shriver's keynote speech belittled the movement against cultural appropriation, referred incorrectly to information about Ms. Shriver's appearance that was on the festival's website.
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One of our best-read stories today is by a novelist whose defense of fiction as a vehicle for empathy was met with outrage by those who understood her interest in writing about people different from herself to be excusing cultural appropriation.
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Colleges and universities have warned students not to dress as Indian chiefs or Mexican bandits, while parents have publicly debated whether they can allow their children to dress as the Black Panther or Moana without being accused of cultural appropriation or racism.
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Elsa did not reflect cultural appropriation but rather discomfort over how her character "sends the message that you have to be a certain way" to look "beautiful" or to be a "princess" and that you have to have blonde hair and blue eyes.
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She now finds herself embarrassed by the original tattoo, in part because she doesn't want to be a party to the cultural appropriation of an aborigine symbol and because lower-back tattoos have come to take on a derogatory name: the tramp stamp.
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Before skeptics begin grumbling about cultural appropriation and a planeload of Danes "discovering" ancient sources of nutrition, it's important to note that the Noma team is diverse, filled with talent from around the world: Asia, Latin America, the Bronx and Australia itself.
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"As for all the recent frustration surrounding the cultural appropriation of traditionally Black braided hairstyles, she understands: "It's strange when the source of your shame adopts the qualities you were shamed for, receives praise for these qualities, and is heralded as a trendsetter.
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His pieces are masterclasses on syncretic art, uniting various origins while subtly avoiding the sordid tinge of cultural appropriation—a subject worth broaching for anyone (especially a white man) who samples what he himself refers to as "primitive" and "world ethnic" music.
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There's Glenn Howerton's Kimono-wearing douchebag ("Cultural appropriation!" calls one of his cohorts) who seems to expect his flight attendant to magically whip up a healthy, Mediterranean meal on a literal airplane because he decided in that moment it's what he wants.
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Simin doesn't see this as cultural appropriation — since 215, she has consulted on Dishoom's design, with its spotted mirrors, dangling electric wires and mood of sepia twilight — as long as the original cafes aren't being glamorized, "because they weren't glamorous," she says.
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Of course, "to those who been knew," as author Lauren Michele Jackson perfectly styles it in her savvy, utterly fantastic debut, White Negroes: When Cornrows Were In Vogue … And Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation, this breed of culture-scavenging is nothing novel.
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In recent weeks, the Canadian theater world has been embroiled in a vociferous debate over cultural appropriation after "Slav," an odyssey about black slave music by Mr. LePage and starring the singer Betty Bonifassi, was shuttered at the Montreal International Jazz Festival.
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The major objection to cultural appropriation has always been about the abuse of power: inadequate research, halfhearted imagination and a lack of respect, the privileged assumption of the right to speak on behalf of people who are perfectly capable of speaking for themselves.
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Some of the narrator's experiences in Africa with Aimee — combined with her efforts to understand shifting attitudes toward race in music and dance — are meant to raise larger questions about cultural appropriation, and the relationship between the privileged West and the developing world.
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Take this not-ineffective collaboration between Major Lazer, the dancehall side project of Diplo and friends (and the source of cultural appropriation agonizing since its inception), the Canadian R&B singer PartyNextDoor and Nicki Minaj, both of whom are of Caribbean heritage.
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Most often, this has taken the form of borrowing or outright stealing from racial and ethnic minorities in a practice that has been variously deemed "cultural appropriation" and, more recently, "racial plagiarism," a phrase coined by the fashion scholar Minh-Ha T. Pham.
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I sat down with Cimarusti outside his new seafood shop to talk about why he refuses to sell farmed fish, uneducated seafood-based cultural appropriation in restaurants, sustainable fish in food deserts, and most importantly, why he is hopeful for the future of tuna.
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"Degraded" is the second single off of the Preoccupations' forthcoming self-titled LP. This will be the band's first album since changing their name—Viet Cong, as they were previously known, were accused of cultural appropriation and racism for referencing the Vietnamese National Liberation Front.
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And here's something that's worth bringing up: Cultural appropriation has made it so a blonde, white woman who doesn't know her chopsticks from her hair accessories will always look "cute" in a cheongsam, and an Asian woman will look like she's dressed in a costume.
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The 33-year-old Keeping Up with the Kardashians star shared her loved for her sister on Twitter, Monday night — hours after the Kim clapped back at online critics who slammed her for cultural appropriation after posting several photos of herself in blonde cornrows.
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THE ARTS An article on Tuesday about a controversy at the Brisbane Writers Festival in Australia, where the American novelist Lionel Shriver's keynote speech belittled the movement against cultural appropriation, referred incorrectly to information about Ms. Shriver's appearance that was on the festival's website.
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Read more: Dior is accused of cultural appropriation over a video promoting its fragrance that it calls 'an authentic journey deep into the Native American soul'"Ikea seem to have a new dish of jerk chicken with rice and GREEN PEAS," comedian Dane Baptiste tweeted.
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No episode shows this off better than season one's fourth episode ("The Restaurant"), in which Nate and Robin agree to stop at a kitschy theme restaurant that turns out to be more like a rabbit hole of confusing cultural appropriation and vodka-soaked depravity.
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And while a number of white people have been accused of cultural theft, several of the celebrities caught up in cultural appropriation debates this year, including Awkwafina and her supposed "blaccent" and Nicki Minaj and her hit song "Chun-Li," are people of color.
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But what was intended to be a small treat for Potterheads has quickly become a Twitter-fueled shit storm of unhappy readers accusing Rowling of no small transgression — and something we consider to be one of the biggest pop culture no-nos: cultural appropriation.
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Equally, post-nationalism is a reaction to the ongoing furor around perceived cultural appropriation — when even a hairstyle can cause widespread outrage, as was the case with the dreadlocks worn by models at last spring's Marc Jacobs show, highlighting the politicization of black women's hair.
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That kind of camp is very pointedly a critique, not just of the fashion world but of the cultural appropriation that the fashion world engages in when it basically is mocking and stealing from Latinos and black gay men, and then calling it high fashion.
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I'm very, very conscious and hopefully sensitive about the fact that that play, if you were of a mind to, you could say there's cultural appropriation going on here — and not just of one country but two countries, because I'm neither Chinese nor American.
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Angry about cultural appropriation, tens of thousands of people had signed an online petition that called on the company to drop its trademark of the phrase, which the company filed when the first version of the movie was released more than two decades ago.
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Stung, but undaunted, Mr. Chavarria, 50, chose another hot-button political issue — that of cultural appropriation — for "Cruising," a poetic follow-up that managed to wed the aesthetics of two cultures that could hardly be less alike: lowriders and the gay leather-bar scene.
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Read more:Gucci is facing criticism by the Sikh community over a $800 turban18 controversial clothing items that were pulled from storesDior is accused of cultural appropriation over a video promoting its fragrance that it calls &aposan authentic journey deep into the Native American soul&apos
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Americans should think very carefully before engaging with a politics that bears an eerie similarity to the beliefs of the people that marched on Charlottesville, Va. None of this means that all cultural appropriation should be cheered: Sometimes it's just in plain old bad taste.
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Even before Kim decided to go to work as a political advocate, the Kardashians found themselves at the center of plenty of hot-button debates, as on the various occasions when the sisters have worn traditionally black hairstyles and gotten called out for cultural appropriation.
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But on another level, the trajectory of the phrase, which immediately traveled across the internet to be capitalized upon elsewhere by pop stars, major brands, and assorted corporations, captured a pivotal undercurrent of pop culture in the 22s: a growing awareness of cultural appropriation.
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"It would be easy for this to be an example of cultural appropriation, but if you go all the way you become part of it," Sachs said, adding that while some tea ceremony students were offended with his version, other Japanese masters have loved it.
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Its author, JP Larocque, confessed that in 2008, he foolishly dressed up for Halloween as someone from south of the American border, thus being guilty, all at once, unusually for his considerate homeland, of racial insensitivity, cultural appropriation and a joke in inexcusable taste.
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French photographer and filmmaker Alex Loembe was the first to point out the striking resemblance with a Tweet, saying the artist failed to even mention Basquiat's influence on his website or Instagram (instead using #AndyWarhol #AfricanArt), calling it a "bad copy" and cultural appropriation.
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Titles like "When All You Have Left are Limes, Make Margaritas, Nod and Smile; Old and Faithful Since 1848 (Yellowstone)" (2015) bring attention to the powerless, uncomfortable reality of cultural appropriation that lies beneath the surface of objects whose meaning is lost through consumption.
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But if the idea of a suburban white kid being the real inspiration behind rock n roll was problematic in terms of cultural appropriation, I don't even know what to think about the idea of a schlubby gamer being the true creator of Michael Jackson's signature move.
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Spitzer insists the show doesn't try to have involved, intelligent conversations, but it has done an exceptional job tackling #MeToo ("Back to School"), cultural appropriation ("Costume Competition"), the environment ("Cloud Green"), and now immigration – without even alluding to the political spectrum or naming any prominent public figures.
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This is a broader-reaching question than Drake; there are profound artistic and cultural implications behind what counts as sharing ideas versus taking them (this also ties into debates over cultural appropriation, but that's a topic for someone's Ph.D., not this short Lil Wayne blog post).
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But Perry's mindset also seems to fall in line with the messages she sent during her four-day Witness live-stream event where she opened up about her emotional struggles, why she became a feminist, recognizing her sexual power, and her past experiences with cultural appropriation.
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Beatty co-wrote, co-produced, and directed the film, which—for all its somewhat tactless cultural appropriation (see: Warren Beatty rapping)—does pack a lot of substance and leaves one yearning for the day when a politician might be emboldened to tell the truth in real life.
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No stranger to pulling inspiration from minority cultures and replicating their likeness for profit, Stefani's harmful antics were able to evade judgment, in part, because it was before "cultural appropriation" became a national buzzword and also because we lacked today's social media platforms that ignite public conversation.
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" The term "cultural appropriation" has been thrown around a lot lately, but for the sake of his research, Fabien-Ouellet says it can be "broadly defined as a majority group takes elements from the minority or marginalized group in a way that is problematic for that group.
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I know that's vague, so I'll try and illustrate what I mean: At one point in the audience participation part of the show, a representative from a local community of Native Americans popped up to add his much-needed two cents to the cultural appropriation conversation.
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Accusations of cultural appropriation at this year's Whitney Biennial, and the need for a government bailout of the German contemporary art exhibition Documenta, which expanded this year to Athens, certainly left the impression that art, like the world in general, is indeed in a funny place.
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It's doubtful that anyone venturing out to partake of "The Hunt" will be provoked, much less offended, by its politics, which amounts to glib jokes about snowflakes, NPR and cultural appropriation on one hand, and climate change denial, "crisis actors" and the "deep state" on the other.
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"I felt like Christopher Columbus landing on a new territory," the chef replied, despite the fact that Columbus has come to represent colonization — something people are particularly attuned to in the food world, where cultural appropriation is considered a pitfall to be avoided by sensitive chefs.
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Liberals denounce "cultural appropriation" without, in many cases, doing the work of persuading people that there is anything wrong with, say, a teenager not of Chinese descent wearing a Chinese-style dress to prom or eating at a burrito cart run by two non-Latino women.
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On a recent afternoon, in an interview at the Ahmanson, Mr. Hwang spoke of his deep love for Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, the play's themes of cultural appropriation and artistic homage, and why we never hear the word "Trump" in a play about the 2016 election.
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" Simon Kilmurry, executive director of the Los Angeles-based International Documentary Association, said that cultural appropriation was certainly an issue for nonfiction films but that "there are not enough sources of funding to allow those native voices to tell stories and develop the talent within that community.
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So, just like Diet Prada pointed out designer bags getting ripped off by major retailers or cultural appropriation on the runway, Estée Laundry called out mass brands for copying high-end designer packaging or white models wearing enough extra-dark bronzer to be considered borderline blackface.
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Leaping from 1970s Jamaica to 1980s London, the story follows D (Aml Ameen), a drug courier and aspiring music artist who arrives in Hackney with a package for Rico (the reliable Stephen Graham, whose queasily hilarious performance of cultural appropriation is mitigated by his Jamaican heritage).
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She schooled everyone on why cultural appropriation is not okay, took Jaden Smith to prom, starred in one of the most popular films of the decade, came out as bisexual on Teen Vogue's Snapchat, co-authored the comic book Niobe: She Is Life, and appeared in Beyonce's Lemonade.
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"I would deeply and sincerely like to apologize to every one for this, and black women especially...I believe this shoot is from when I was around 15 and didn’t understand cultural appropriation or the impact it has on POC… I do regret doing this," she explained.
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The reality star and fashion mogul — who has a new line of shapewear, though the company is in need of a new name after widespread backlash and accusations of cultural appropriation for the original name, Kimono — said that she prefers to be "all smoothed" rather than showing her cellulite.
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Though it lacks a common definitoin, cultural appropriation is generally taken to mean the idea that a "dominant culture" wearing or using things from a "minority culture"—say, white American college kids in Brazilian bombachas—is inherently disrespectful because the objects are taken out of their native context.
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After a conversation about cultural appropriation with her 5-year-old daughter last year, writer Sachi Feris published a blog for Raising Race Conscious Children titled "Moana, Elsa, And Halloween" (which went viral at the time) about why she wouldn't let her white daughter dress up as Moana.
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I bet she does, considering how concertedly the pop singer has shifted her look and sound to reflect Black culture and coolness, hiring Black songwriters to cement herself as an urban adult artist (which has led to being accused of plagiarism and cultural appropriation by her Black peers).
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For More Stories Like This, Sign Up for Our Newsletter Like Fergie, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Iggy Azalea, and countless other white women in pop culture that came after Stefani, cultural appropriation is nothing but a formula for success that rests upon the likeness of people of color.
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But since "Thank U, Next" had already made the perfect argument for celebrating gratitude and growth, the icy tone of "7 Rings" felt slightly out of touch — not to mention how its catchy sound and carefree thesis were corrupted by accusations of plagiarism and aspects of cultural appropriation.
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Bon Appétit Management Company, which hired Mr. Iyer to teach the Emory cooks, came under fire from students at Oberlin College in December for "blurring the line between culinary diversity and cultural appropriation by modifying the recipes without respect for certain Asian countries' cuisines," according to the student newspaper.
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The stakes in the current debate around fashion, cultural appropriation and racism, in which a variety of brands from Gucci to H & M have been called out and publicly flayed for making products that display striking historical ignorance or may exploit the work of others, have just been raised.
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But it is always dangerous for a European luxury brand to parachute into a continent with a colonial history, especially these days when the discussion around cultural appropriation and fashion's malapropisms is loud, and there are watchdogs waiting in exactly the same digital space to pounce on any misstep.
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The debut episode of comedian Moshe Kasher's new Comedy Central show is about cultural appropriation, "a topic that I personally have found a great deal of eye-rolling antipathy toward in my personal life," Kasher told me in an interview at his Los Angeles home earlier this month.
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Major Native American organizations universally denounce the Washington D.C.-based NFL team&aposs name as a slur, and while the Kansas City name is not quite as extreme an offense, it still classifies as cultural appropriation among many Natives, according to Native American student newspaper The Indian Leader.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "In Defense of Cultural Appropriation," by Kenan Malik (Op-Ed, June 15): As an author of numerous books that deal with people from cultures different from my own, I am appalled at the suggestion that one can write only from one's own specific experience.
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To make matters worse, this was his response to the ensuing outcry: And all who cry "cultural appropriation" or whatever nonsense about any race of skin color wearing their hair in a particular style or manner – funny how you don't criticize women of color for straightening their hair.
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So, in light of Big Marijuana and the new idea that weed is really a lifestyle accoutrement for the rich and trendy, I walked into last night's launch party for Sigur Rós' new cannabis-infused gumdrops with trepidation, fearing an ambush from the other end of the cannabis cultural appropriation spectrum.
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In a now infamous example of his identity-sampling, Jacobs plucked one of his runway ideas right off Wachowski's head, paying homage to her distinctive Raggedy Ann hairdo with madcap wigs styled as pastel dreadlocks in his spring 2017 runway show, which, to his surprise, drew charges of cultural appropriation.
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While I don't know why festival fashion has become so synonymous with, well, the worst of it (fringe, denim diapers, cultural appropriation), as I prepped for attending the event this year, I decided there had to be a different approach worth taking — one that doesn't involve bodysuits or feathered headpieces.
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Many examples of destructive cultural appropriation — like Nicki Minaj and her use of pan-Asian symbols in a new song — happen between two marginalized groups, but the result is to reduce Asian-Americans as a stereotype for the enjoyment of non-Asians, at the expense of all marginalized groups in America.
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Similarly, the couturier's passion for the aesthetics of foreign cultures will butt up against contemporary debates around cultural appropriation, but it would be a shame to bypass the opportunity to discuss how we value fashion statements from historic periods, when being woke simply meant you had been roused from sleeping.
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" She tempered what amounted to a right-wing case against affirmative action and political correctness with a paean to cultural exchange, proclaiming, "I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad," because the exchange of cultural ideas is "one of the most productive, fascinating aspects of modern urban life.
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Many took offense to the creative director's choice to feature technicolor dreadlocks, especially when applied to a predominately white cast of women — and especially when Jacobs and his hairstylist Guido Palau credited everyone from Harajuku girls to Lana Wachowski, without also acknowledging their roots in Rasta culture — and cried cultural appropriation.
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A box office success, the film operates on many levels: as a family-friendly conversation-starter about racism in France, as an exploration of the history of taste and cultural appropriation, as a vehicle for Mr. Sy to flex his comic muscles and as a story about the hazards of success.
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Nathan Phillips is offering to travel as a "delegate representing the international coalition behind the Indigenous Peoples March to Covington Catholic High School in Northern Kentucky and have a dialog about cultural appropriation, racism, and the importance of listening to and respecting diverse cultures," according to the Lakota People's Law Project.
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Even hummus has become politicized: Anti-Zionists at my school who demanded that cafeterias stop serving hummus produced by a company with Israeli ownership, also claimed that the product showed cultural appropriation even though Mizrahim and Sephardim have been eating Southwest Asian cuisine since long before the rise of organized Zionism.
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I'm no authority on the layers of cultural appropriation that this might or might not entail, but my interpretation of Wayne's mindset is that he rightly understood that the way reggae artists use their voices to play off the rhythmic backing of a song is like an instrument unto itself.
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Originally designed by the modernist French architects Le Corbusier and Fernand Pouillon — large-scale photos of whom hang nearby — Attia's deliberate use of grains native to Algeria in his recreation of the city, "Untitled (Ghardaia)" (2009), alludes to the politics of cultural appropriation and French colonization that still shape his homeland.
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