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Cultural Appropriation
It’s bad. Very bad. And we must all stop immediately.
Among all the tedious but thankfully transient Politically Correct words and phrases drifting around today, such as woke and triggered (which lead us to wonder whether if people opted to rest peacefully in their beds we might have fewer shootings) comes the ever-charming Cultural Appropriation.
I used to think this particular notion was merely the result of too many spoiled and self-indulgent people having far too much time on their hands. But now, gentle reader, I recognize the error of my ways. In today’s parlance, I have become woked.
Or something like that, at least.
Before I prostrate myself (virtually if not physically) before the Great Gods of the Internet and recant the errors of my former un-wokerized self, let’s sketch briefly what Cultural Appropriation is.
Cultural Appropriation is the utilization of one or more artifacts associated with a particular group, region, nation, culture, or K-Pop band (though I confess I may have simply invented this last one).
It is thus a very wide concept indeed. It can include pretty much anything at all, and that is its great charm. When we wake in the morning and, being fortunate enough to live in a world full of food to eat and entertainments…
