Quotes About Culturalappropriation

Asians love schoolgirls in uniforms. They say the Japanese can buy used schoolgirl panties from vending machines. And from shops hidden away in apartment buildings. Burusera shops, they call them. The smell is very important; it adds value to the commodity. I wonder how Marx would have dealt with that?

Even, sometimes, top-down fiat: see the strange case of pad Thai, a Chinese-origin noodle dish (like ramen) that got "Thaified" with tamarind and palm sugar and decreed the national street food by the 1930s dictator Phibun—part of his campaign that included renaming Siam as Thailand, banning minority languages, and pushing Chinese vendors off the streets.

She knew from other places she'd worked that rich people liked owning things made by different kinds of people--Africans, Eskimos, Native Americans. It didn't seem to matter what the object looked like, or to what gory purpose it might have been put, as long as it had belonged to some other people first, and as long ago as possible.

Czy?byÅ›my wykoÅ"czyli Hotentotów i buszmenów? SÄ…dzÄ™, ?e tak; wkrótce bÄ™dÄ… przedstawiani jako osobliwoÅ›ci; jeden z nich, wypchany, znajduje siÄ™ jako eksponat w Anglii, inny w Pary?u, jeÅ›li siÄ™ nie mylÄ™... Krótko mówiÄ…c: zniknÄ… szybko z powierzchni ziemi.

There are entire movements, many of them rooted in the wisdom of the ancients, many stolen, Westernized, and simplified from the East. It's all right, though, social media will reduce them to a pithy pair of lines.