You Don 'T' A Culture: In Defense Of Cultural Appropriation

Clash of Cultural Appreciation Ideals Culture appreciation is a controversial topic in America it is often easily outburst by many different opinions, the different opinions arrive from not having a standard guideline that outlines a common definition of cultural appreciation and how to go about it. In his Article “This is How We Don’t: The Raised Stakes of Cultural Appropriation,” Rex outlines how he views cultural appreciation to be nothing more but stealing one’s identity, he refutes author, John McWhorter who in his article, “You Can’t ‘Steal’ a Culture: In Defense of Cultural Appropriation” has a different approach about cultural appreciation, he in fact believes that there is no such as thing as stealing one’s culture, he believes in the melting pot. The two authors have a completely different view on imitation of a culture. Rex believes that imitation leads to stealing a culture while McWhorter believes that imitation is a part of the melting …show more content…
Another example of those two authors clashing with each other is when Rex believes that people don’t know what it means to appreciate a culture and therefore they are stealing it while McWhorter believes that appreciation and clashing of cultures is a nature. Lastly the authors disagree on the issue of imitation and people coming together with different cultures. According to McWhorter, imitation is what human’s beings do; it is almost as he is referring to imitation as humans are naturally inclined to imitate each other resulting in a new blend of characteristics, Rex would completely not agree with this because he seems to have this idea that you can’t abandon the roots, you have to give credit and exclusivity to it. Those authors clash because in the case