Shai-Tan
Banned
All culture is "appropriated." We didn't wake up one day with everything prescribed to different groups. Culture is exchanged. It's funny that the "diversity is best" types are the same ones who want everyone to stay in their own boxes - who are the bad guys again?
Even ignoring that, where do you draw the line? Everything that Blacks, Whites, Asians, etc. invent have to be exclusive to one group and never exchanged or evolve? What a boring and depressing world view.
As for Fortnite dances, you must be joking? Who cares if people know the creator of a dance? Most people couldn't tell you the creator of anything. Why is that important? Without looking it up can you tell me the creator of the internet, keyboard, lcd screen, etc.? Yet here you are using them.
And yeah, Corporations like to steal and exploit ideas, welcome to earth. It's not "cultural appropriation."
It might under Appiah's model count as exploitation, even to someone who doesn't believe in a legal monopoly supporting it. I'm personally skeptical of such laws. The moral concern, particularly with the type of person who wields the cultural appropriation charge is how dominant culture will co-opt and economically benefit from culture in a way that doesn't flow back to whoever was responsible for the originality but that's the story of every subculture. The star model doesn't necessarily reward originality as much as it rewards packaging it for the mainstream. Anyway, those dances were created by millionaires not some down and out people in a less economically developed country
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