The point of appropriation is adopting something and using it for something other than in the way its unintended to the culture or offensive to the culture.
Wearing a Sari at your Indian friends traditional Indian wedding ✅
Wearing a sari as a halloween costume ❌
Wearing a Sari at your Indian friends traditional Indian wedding ✅
Wearing a sari as a halloween costume ❌
Wearing a Jamaican flag and bantu knots to celebrate Jamaican carnival ✅
Wearing Jamaican flag and bantu knots to a costume party ❌
Wearing Jamaican flag and bantu knots to a costume party ❌
Your white friends wearing asoebi to your trad ✅
Your white friends having an “African theme” party where they show up in African traditional outfits ❌
Getting henna on hands at a culturally appropriate celebration like a Mehndi ✅
Getting henna cos its edgy and cute ❌
Your white friends having an “African theme” party where they show up in African traditional outfits ❌
Getting henna on hands at a culturally appropriate celebration like a Mehndi ✅
Getting henna cos its edgy and cute ❌
Cultural appropriation does not mean “people not of a culture participating in that culture”
It means “people not of a culture taking aspects of a culture and using it not as is used within its cultural context and/or offending people of that culture”.
It means “people not of a culture taking aspects of a culture and using it not as is used within its cultural context and/or offending people of that culture”.
