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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: epicure who wrote (84688)7/24/2018 11:21:33 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 359581
 
Borrowing from other cultures enriches culture for everyone. Can you be clumsy or even offensive when you do so? Sure, but the problem then is clumsiness or being offensive, not borrowing. A campaign against cultural "appropriation" when nothing is taken away (if an east Asian dancer does some middle eastern dance or a white person writes fiction about a black character it doesn't prevent middle eastern people from dancing or black people from writing) is indeed PC, and a rather negative version of it. It even extends to complaints about people who aren't from South Asia teaching, or possibly just working on yoga. There is nothing categorically offensive about participating in arts and culture elements from other cultures.
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