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Vicariously Offended (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Culture is meant to be shared, as long as you're respectful and you're not caricaturing or mocking the culture you're trying to portray, most people from said culture would be flattered.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah context and intend make all the difference. Cultural appropriation is when you try to clad yourself in something that is a facsimile of another culture, usually for marketing or influence purposes, but you neither understand nor have any intend to understand the culture itself or the meaning behind the parts you use for your (usually financial) gain.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

IDK, even then, I don't think you need to understand the culture about it so much. E.g. there was some incident about a white girl wearing a qipao to prom and she got called out for it. In the end, it's just a piece of clothing that looks nice. It isn't some deeply symbolic thing for people.

I don't expect her to try to understand Chinese culture before wearing a qipao (which originated in Mongolia before Chinese appropriated it BTW), and I don't expect Chinese to understand Western culture before wearing a suit and tie.

But obviously there are some cases, as you said where context does matter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Mocking cultures is fine. Mocking anything is fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Obviously, but the intent is important.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

And also the representation of that culture. An ignorant attempt at mocking a culture can be offensive even if the intent is purely comic or positive.