Cultural appropriation

[eirias]

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.)

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[Poll #1267976]

Comments

[kirin]

"Similarly, maybe the restaurant owner is fine selling samosas to white dudes, but maybe every other person in there rolls his eyes the minute you walk in."

You know, the direction this example is going is making me want to take the opposing stance from the poll option, and say that I think it's *not* okay for people to be offended by people from outside their culture partaking of their *public* gathering.[1] If you want to have an event that excludes everyone who's not like you (even potentially shallow and annoying people) you can do it in private.

[1] This is way stronger than my actual position, since people can think whatever they want, though again I may think slightly less of someone who I see coming off as overly critical/unaccepting. And it's also affected by the particular wording of your example, where people rolled their eyes when someone *walked in*. If the outsider proceeded to act like a boorish asshole, then offense is plenty justified.