Culturally Informative Essay: What Is Cultural Appropriation?

What is Cultural appropriation? It is the stealing of one’s culture as a fashion trend, while at the same time, disregarding the cultural importance of the object that is being plagiarized, and being commended for it. Cultural appropriation is a very impolite act. Not only is the person stealing the culture’s object to identify themselves, but the people of that culture that the person is plagiarizing, is totally ignored. Particularly, as reported by Twitter user @slytherinpunk, cultural plagiarizing is like working on an assignment and failing and then somebody else gets your work and gets an A. That is the big issue with cultural hijacking; the hijacker is commended for taking of one’s culture while the author of that culture are lambasted for portraying their culture. On the other hand, there are some times where the appropriator is unknowing of the cultural importance of the object, in which the appropriation of the culture or object is unaware. White Americans should not appropriate Black culture, because white American argue they are appreciating it, white …show more content…
Countless of people presume that if someone belonging to a social group walks away from their culture, African American clothing, then they are allowed to walk away from their traditional dressing and embellish the minority’s customary attire. A feminist Jarune Uwujaren wrote about the issue. She wrote just because some Indians Americans put on business attire that does not mean they own saris and bindis (an Indian jewelry women wear). Which a lot of Black American women wear. She argued that just because a few African Americans flatten their hair doesn’t mean Americans own dreadlocks. Also, she says Western culture welcomes and, at most times, request digestion. Not all culture opens themselves up for adoption by strangers in the same