• madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    That’s just racism and you’re not going to fix it by isolating the immigrants more by chastising people that enjoy their culture.

    It makes zero sense if the goal is to fight racism. If anything you’d want there to be MORE immersion and exchange of cultures so the immigrants are seen as part of the new fabric instead of separate from it.

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      that’s just racism

      Yes. That’s the central point of any discussion of cultural appropriation. It’s rooted in racism.

      Participating in something or wearing the clothing of another culture is not automatically racist/cultural appropriation. But it often can be. It’s like people here don’t understand nuance or are so eager to be offended by other people being offended.

      If I “dress up like an Indian” and run around hooting and hollering and waving around a toy hatchet, I am being a racist and sloppily culturally appropriating. If I’m invited to a Native American ceremony and dress up how they tell me too, then I am participating in a culture with respect. Surely we are all adults here and know the difference?

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      I’m telling you how people feel, I’m not writing a manual towards a post race society. When people feel ostracised because they look Mexican, they get salty about the same society who routinely rejected them and made them feel like outsiders gleefully housing down Mexican food and cosplaying at being Mexican.