In my experience, I believe the modern concept of cultural appropriation is flawed. Frankly, I believe that it has totally spun out of control.
Vietnamese culture: Not pho your entertainment
Over the past 18 months, I’ve been inundated with 1,600 requests to perform in Miss Saigon. Yet still, as an Australian of Vietnamese descent, if you consider the industry whitewashed, I call it a tsunami.
The difference between cultural appreciation and appropriation
Once again the issue of cultural appropriation has raised its head, but I contend for my generation there is a difference been appropriation and appreciation.
Cultural appropriation: plenty of room on the yoga mat
Westerners shouldn’t feel ashamed of practicing yoga in their own way, they should just be ok with Indians practicing it in theirs.
S&M: B-Style in Japan – Aight or Wangsta?
The Biebster trying to appropriate African American culture has been met with derision, and Yalei Wang wonders whether B-Style in Japan is any different?