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I use the word “artifact” very loosely here. It’s a label for the phenomenon where humans from one culture or subculture (or group of some sort) adopt a cultural “artifact” from another culture or subculture (or group of some sort). “Cultural appropriation” is a connotatively neutral academic term. If you want to eat bagels and call your boss a schmuck, go ahead. The goyim already stole a whole mess of words and food from us Jews. If someone who isn’t Jewish wants to walk around with a Star of David around their neck, have at it. If you don’t want the majority to do certain things, then as the minority I think stop doing it yourselves. Can white girls wear corn rows? Can non-Asian women wear a Geisha costume for Halloween? Have you ever been to Japan?! The teenagers and young women wear Halloween costumes all year! I’m against dressing in a way that people within the group wouldn’t dress, because they find it offensive, but if they dress like that, or use those words, then it must not be very offensive. Is it not ok to wear that? Many of my friends and I wear items that look very Eastern European (well some of us are Eastern European, but we are relying on American designers stealing from the other countries, does it not count because Warren Europe is white? Remember when the communist Russians were the big scary enemy?).

When I was little I had a beautiful blouse that looked Indian. However, this time it just seems a little over the top to me.Īs far as cultural appropriation. Usually, I say if something is offensive to a group we need to believe them, accept it, and do our best to change our behavior. If black people confuse it with wretched, which I’m not even sure what’s wrong with using the word wretched when appropriate, then are we saying I need to change using ratchet, because some black people are illiterate and don’t know the difference between the two words, because they sound similar? I know that sounds harsh, but really, I’m having a hard time with this one. The only uses I know of is the expression “ratchet it up” or that a ratchet is an actual tool.