Don’t you want to live in a world where ideas are shared freely and openly? What happens when a group of people is negatively affected by these ideas being shared? Most don’t realize, but the concept of culture appropriation is clear. Every day the media misrepresents people. We live in a world where some cultures are stolen and then exploited in the media without any other forms of representation. Popular culture has been notorious for stealing ideas from other cultures without thinking of the outcome it will have. Some of popular cultures musicians, directors, actors, and public figures have at some point in time shown an example of culture appropriation. Celebrities such as Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, and Lady Gaga are all liable for continuing
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Other cases of appropriation have been found in television, sports and movies. The entertainment industry is a billion dollar industry, so unless you don’t watch sports, movies, television, music videos, etc., it is almost impossible to not have witnessed culture appropriation at one point. It often raises a question, is all culture appropriation bad? Which could then be easily related to, is all stealing bad? When you look at those two questions each have very different levels of intensity. Some people view all stealing as bad, but when you add a Robin Hood mindset to the mixture it can sometime be justified. So is all cultural appropriation bad? When cultural appropriation is the exact opposite of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, how is it …show more content…
That is simply the sharing of ideas. That, “culture is fluid, you can’t steal it. That isn’t the case. It is possible to appreciate a culture without stealing its ideas and benefiting from it. The fact is that most people whose culture is appropriated has been at the hands of oppression for long periods of time. So when a part of their culture is misrepresented and then popularized by people that have nothing to do with it, it is seen as highly offensive. It is suggested that the idea of cultural appropriation is for closed minded individuals. That people should be allowed to pull from wherever they want to for their creative ideas. The only problem with that is the way it’s done. If there is no known history from the culture you are sharing and no known reason it should be left alone. For example, if a new country was just added to the world and this new country had incredible influence over the world and then decided to use the American flag as their own. Then the rest of the world starts to recognize that as the new countries flag, with no recognition to America. That would enrage many Americans. So how come we are allowed to do this to people of certain
Other cases of appropriation have been found in television, sports and movies. The entertainment industry is a billion dollar industry, so unless you don’t watch sports, movies, television, music videos, etc., it is almost impossible to not have witnessed culture appropriation at one point. It often raises a question, is all culture appropriation bad? Which could then be easily related to, is all stealing bad? When you look at those two questions each have very different levels of intensity. Some people view all stealing as bad, but when you add a Robin Hood mindset to the mixture it can sometime be justified. So is all cultural appropriation bad? When cultural appropriation is the exact opposite of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, how is it …show more content…
That is simply the sharing of ideas. That, “culture is fluid, you can’t steal it. That isn’t the case. It is possible to appreciate a culture without stealing its ideas and benefiting from it. The fact is that most people whose culture is appropriated has been at the hands of oppression for long periods of time. So when a part of their culture is misrepresented and then popularized by people that have nothing to do with it, it is seen as highly offensive. It is suggested that the idea of cultural appropriation is for closed minded individuals. That people should be allowed to pull from wherever they want to for their creative ideas. The only problem with that is the way it’s done. If there is no known history from the culture you are sharing and no known reason it should be left alone. For example, if a new country was just added to the world and this new country had incredible influence over the world and then decided to use the American flag as their own. Then the rest of the world starts to recognize that as the new countries flag, with no recognition to America. That would enrage many Americans. So how come we are allowed to do this to people of certain