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eirias ([personal profile] eirias) wrote2008-09-27 10:04 am

Cultural appropriation

Pursuant to a conversation elsewhere, a poll!

NOTE! For the purpose of this poll, "foreigner" refers to someone who is foreign in several ways:

1. he has no familial claim to the culture (no relation by blood or marriage);
2. he does not and has not lived in the culture;
3. he has no deep knowledge or understanding of the culture, and/or does not speak the language.

Use the comments to clarify anything you like.

(Note: I submitted blank answers but that's only so I can easily see poll results without changing them; one should not infer from that that I think all the options are inappropriate.)




[Poll #1267976]

Re: That might be a more productive line...

[identity profile] smarriveurr.livejournal.com 2008-09-27 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's always interesting to see the line where an artistic expression becomes a cultural practice, a meditation, etc... and it's something you're only aware of with a proper grounding in the culture, and something you can only impart if you've studied it rigorously and seriously.