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Some westerners believe that culture should not be shared and everyone should keep to their own culture or else risk appropriating that culture, which is seen as a type of colonialism. I disagree with this notion but I’m in the minority on this.
I’m Jewish and it would be sick if more people ate matzah ball soup. This however would be seen as cultural appropriation though.
I thought it was claiming a cultural thing as your own, disregarding the origins. Your definition seems to be more racist driven fear of intermingling, to separate cultures.
My definition is how I’ve seen it used in practice. I brought in bagels from the Jewish bakery near me once in university and no one touched them because it was “Jew Food” and they didn’t want to “appropriate” lmao. More bagels for me, but damn.
Imagine missing out on a potential positive experience because of social fear of being labeled some form of racist. People are more scared of being called racist than actually functionally being one.
I would see that as just straight up racism. Being fearful of trying something new or exotic because of a backlash of your ingroup is terrible and very clique like, conservative republican like. Sorry that you had to experience that. I personally enjoy experiencing other cultural things, especially foods, and would not miss an opportunity to try new things.
Ya it was a surprise to me because where I used to live, bagels are just another type of bun or something. I didn’t realize they were that widely associated with being Jewish. This group that I graduated with were very concerned about appearing “cringe” so maybe perhaps it has to do with that.