Western fashion has drawn inspiration from other cultures and places around the world for years, so the use of Indian traditional clothing and customary jewelry is not surprising. What is interesting though, is the use of this traditional wear not only without credit to the original culture, but also the
Tag: cultural appropriation
Photographs withstand the test of time to represent history; whether that be important people, ideas, scientific findings, etc. Photographs are tools to help teach us of the past so we can learn to not repeat our mistakes. Photographs can also be used for harm and hurt other people or cultures,
Cultural appropriation is bad right? We shouldn’t do it, right? It’s a borderline crime to appropriate someone else’s culture, we all agree. We’ll who is we? A seemingly dumb question that somehow got lost in translation. Capitalism strikes again. American culture has become so entranced with capitalistic values that even
Pablo Picasso is a name well known across the world for his experimentation with art and development of cubism, but he didn’t do so alone, or ethically. Behind his work is heavy influences from African cultures and artists as well as his muses. Despite this, Picasso denied African influences and
Using other people’s culture as aesthetic, commodifying it and selling it, packaging it away and manipulating it in a way that wasn’t the original intent, and stripping away its original meaning — it’s the hot word that seems to be everywhere on Twitter — cultural appropriation. Cancel culture follows right
Before I write this article I honestly do not care about people “appropriating” my culture. I am writing this because I am annoyed at how I believe young American society honestly only judges appropriation based on if we like that person or find them annoying, and largely if that person