Quote Originally Posted by Agent Z View Post
What's bull is anyone dismissing cultural appropriation as a problem.
If it isn't done in bad faith ("It's totally not african breads!" or "I wear it better than curly-haired girls anyway" kind of bad faith, or the old white savior trope, a la Atlantis: The Lost Empire, where the main characters knows the technology of the Atlanteans better than them... when they are the exact same, immortal Atlanteans from before the sinking!) I have no problem with it.

It's called créolisation in French (and while it's debated, because some peoples argues that it'd prevent peoples of non-European descent to be anything other than, well, non-European-descent peoples, it came from a thinker who was black, from the former colonies in the Caribbean and opposed the negritude movement Edouard Glissant. And today, the Left in France is starting to realize that it's only natural that cultures, habitus and traditions evolve with the mixing of populations from different origins, by the way, and that the new whole is different from the old, but just as precious, if not more.