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rey trying new foods, seeing new places, meeting new people ... going off on their own and just EXPERIENCING life outside of war and outside of working on jakku.

#and MUSIC oh my god.#culture.#ooc .

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Quick thought about something that has been bugging me for a while now and many people keep missunderstanding.

Cultural apropiation is not a person participating from something inside another culture that's not theirs. Cultural apropiation is removing the meaning of that cultural piece for the sake of trending or capitalism transforming into something entirely different.

There are many aspecst of a culture that totally fine to share and experience from outsiders because is not inherently sacred or doesn't really hold some especific exclusive meaning. If someone were to come to my country and participate from our traditions, or dress in some traditional clothes no one would be offended because one of the most beautiful parts of culture as a whole is that you can share it. If anything, all cultures are the product of some level of sincretism.

Now, often i see TONS of post of people (mostly americans for some reason) about how everything is cultural apropiation when in reality, when you ask the people of said culture they will tell you that they are totally fine with outsiders participating without giving it much thought because not everything in a culture is sacred, sometimes clothes are just clothes, food is just food, and parties are for everyone.

So, please, before acussing someone of cultural apropiation first INVESTIGATE what are you saying. Is it sacred? is it meaningful? is a tradition because is fun or because it holds spiritual importance?

Someone could be participating in good faith of something, learning new things an experiencing something totally awesome while making memories and friends inside another cultural community while a bunch of strangers lose their shit on internet over something is not even that important for the very owners of the stuff.

#for real people #culture.#rant #also refrain from fighting battles for other cultures when no one asked you #i remember a bunch of stuff about encanto happening on twitter and latinos in general were super cool about it #or when people lose their shit over people using kimonos while japanese where like hehe cool #and so on