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everyone do me a favor and rb with where you live and if you’re getting school/work off bc of coronavirus

Cedar Valley area of Iowa and yes, my university is moving all classes online for two weeks after spring break, but I’m betting it’ll be the rest of the semester.

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Tumblr social justice: spreading the world apart instead of bringing us together, one group at a time.

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The one with the Japanese comments on cultural appropriation really speak to me.

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I love the bit where they’re like “eauh mai gahhh why would they give this awful WHITE person their preshious cultural itaaammms??!!?” Um, because only white kids give a shit about “cultural appropriation”? Which is funny because somehow they can’t see that bitching about it is actually appropriating other people’s VOICES and thoughts and opinions and replacing them with their own white voices. They have become the thing they claim to hate.

WHITE SJW KIDS, STOP TRYING TO SPEAK FOR PEOPLE OF OTHER CULTURES. LET THEM SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES FFS. I promise they can, and will if they need to.

Culture - by its nature, by human nature - SPREADS. It just DOES. People contact other cultures, and they share things. That’s just a fact of life. And it’s A GOOD THING! The VAST majority of people ENJOY that and are HAPPY to share culture! Culture is NOT a finite resource that can be stolen, that can be devalued with use, that can be depleted - quite the opposite, actually. In fact, people from other cultures have explicitly expressed, to me personally as well as to plenty of others everywhere, that they feel pride and excitement when somebody from another culture is interested in or wants to emulate their culture. People who are not uptight white American teenagers/college kids are far more often than not quite HAPPY TO SHARE CULTURE.

And even if it somehow WEREN’T human nature to share and spread culture, imitation is not inherently ridicule or inherently bad. What could possibly make emulating somebody or something bad? Even the most “egregious” “cultural appropriation” “offense” - dressing up for Halloween - isn’t necessarily bad or wrong. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. [Which, I think, is a large part of why people are happy to share culture.] When you see somebody in a football uniform on Halloween, do you immediately assume that they’re making fun of football players, devaluing what they do? Or do you think, aw that kid wants to be a football player when he grows up, or I guess that guy likes football/that player?

So why is it different for cultural outfits, or for adults? It isn’t, not inherently. Dressing up in a kimono isn’t making fun of kimonos or Japanese culture. It’s appreciation. Now, if somebody is going around dressed in a caricature of a culture and openly and maliciously mocking people, then they’re… mocking people and that’s fucking rude. But they’re not stealing culture since culture can’t be stolen, and they’re not devaluing cultural items because culture is far stronger and more meaningful than somebody’s clothes.

I mean, are YOU not happy and excited to share YOUR culture with people? Do YOU get offended if somebody dresses up as something from your culture or learns your language or eats your food or wears your culture’s clothes? If you do, you’re an asshole. That’s not normal.

Like the example in the OP I, too, have been given cultural items as gifts, by people (or race traitors???) from the same culture. I have friends who bring back gifts, including grammar/vocab textbooks, from their home country when they go back to visit, and they get genuinely excited and happy to see me (and anybody they gave gifts to) use/wear their gifts. Once a sweet Cameroonian lady my gramma worked with gave her a cultural dress and actually helped her dress up in it for Halloween. That was super cute. Also, I was once asked to sing at a big, important party celebrating a big, important CULTURAL holiday that we don’t even celebrate in America, BY people from that country, because I could speak (and sing, though not sing well) in their language. I got a massively positive response from every single person there, some of the older ladies actually had tears in their eyes, absolutely everybody there wanted to hang out and speak to me in their language, a couple even invited me to come sing at their wedding later, and the host’s wife even HAND MADE a beautiful cultural dress for me afterward (ooh, so I guess she’s an evil race traitor, right???). Because sharing culture is a WONDERFUL thing that should be CELEBRATED and not fucking OUTLAWED you nazi freaks.

And here’s another example, which actually comes from an excellent YouTube channel where a Japanese guy excitedly shares his culture (or betrays his people????) with the world (TRIGGER WARNING: don’t click that link if you can’t handle watching a man intentionally teach people how to “appropriate” his culture!!):

In this video, he went around asking random people (I don’t think I’ve ever seen the same person twice in his “man on the street” videos) what they think of otakus, and specifically about people from other countries being obsessed with anime and such (that question starts at about 3:15). This is three separate groups of unrelated people who all independently stated that sharing culture is a good thing. There were plenty more answers, ranging from take it or leave it to it’s awesome, but nobody was protective of their culture in any way. (Side note, I think I might be in love with the girl in the 2nd-to-last pic. She is sooo sweet and her smile is sooo pretty and she is just sooo cute!)

So in conclusion, shut the fuck up about cultural appropriation, especially if you’re not from the culture you think you’re defending. Speaking on people’s behalf, as if you know what they want or what’s good for them, is the REAL APPROPRIATION here. Stop doing that, ya dicks.

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YESSSSSS

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CULTURAL APPROPRIATION MASTERPOST

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this got so much better

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Ya ever go through your master post tag and just feel like something needs to be brought back. Yeah this is one of those.

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This needed to come back

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It always does, because the term has been so abused it’s not even funny.

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Also erase the ideas that south european people cannot be white and that the world is divided in poc and white, with seconds always being the bad guys.

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Ever notice the cultural appropriation police are almost always boring dumpy middle class girls with the personality of mold?

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The Spanish one killed me. Hispanic people didn’t develop the language, the Spanish did.

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The Spanish one killed me too, it implies that you shouldn’t learn another language unless you’re from that country.

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Sorry, I am not allowed to speak English anymore, I’m appropriating the English’s culture. Goodbye my friends, I am only allowed to speak German from now on

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Reasons Ven brought out the puppy-dog eyes in KH3

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✿ URL GRAPHICS ✿ 6K celebration — @masteraqua

“"May our hearts be our guiding key.” You’ll know…where I am.“

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a concept: Harry Potter with his mother’s hair and father’s eyes instead of vice versa. Harry with fiery dark red hair and soft hazel eyes please and thank you

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i imagine this is how harry and draco’s first meeting would have gone then haha

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can you imagine how much more confused arthur would have been in that scene where he first meets harry 😂

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his eyes would probably sweep right over harry at the breakfast table, and then he would freeze and have to do a mental tally of his children

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I can see Fred and George really going with it too… “Come on Dad, don’t you remember Harry?” “Next you’ll tell us you don’t remember Craig” “Or Ethel” “Or Annie“ “Or Ryan”

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I figured that the most badass version of this song would be with Elsa (Idena Menzel) singing over the Panic! at the Disco Instrumental.

I was Right.

Enjoy!

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This is even BETTER THAN I EXPECTED oh my gosh??????

everybody stop scrolling and listen to this please

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Ok google, HOW DO I DOWNLOAD MUSIC FROM TUMBLR SO I CAN LOOP THIS 3000 TIMES??

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#the beautifulest #terra

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updated cute apologetic ven!! 💛 ↳ (old version)

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bbc merlin fumbled the bag so hard but listen…gwen and arthur’s budding romance seasons 1 thru 3? biiiiitch. when he was staying at her house and she dragged his ass so hard he actually listened? the kiss before he rode off to joust? the YEARNING looks later when he walks away??? biiiitch, listen. when he delivered her safely back to morgana and then they exchanged that look of unspoken tension!!! the slow simmering undercurrent of their growing feelings woven throughout the episodes…like, the chemistry was popping, the fanfic was popping, the POSSIBILITIES were popping. we had stolen moments, jealousy, pining, angst, conflict, like bitch this shit was in different areas like!! and arthur actually grew and matured in his moments with her!! you could see the seeds of a great leader and warrior when he interacted with gwen. you could see her queenliness rising slowly to the surface the more confident she grew about her place in the world!! i’ve never gone for a canon ship like this and probs never will because !!! HE FORESTALLED AN EXECUTION AND RISKED HIS FATHER’S WRATH AFTER GWEN SPOKE TO HIM!!!! biiitch. and then they flushed it all down the toilet for character regression and queerbaiting and misogyny but listen, liiiiisteeennnnnn, s1-3 we ate like kings.

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