Among academics, the conversation about morality in regard to cultural appropriation concerns to what extent cultural appropriation is morally just. No academic involved in the debate of cultural appropriation and morality explicitly addresses what is defined as moral or ethical justice. This is partially because there is no universal accepted understanding of what is and is not moral, morality is a matter of an individual’s beliefs and values. Furthermore, ethics are the acting practices of moral principles, making them even more varied and complex to define. Because of these complexities there can be no consensus on what is morally just. To simplify the discussion, I will use a general definition which establishes moral justice as acting
