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The_Kindness_of_Trees in reply to @hugo7

I don't think that gets you anywhere. Nobody's going to object to caricaturing the culturally diverse people of the British isles as a load of bowler hat wearing, suitcase and umbrella carrying south-eastern English middle managers, are they? And nobody minds too much when we dress in Breton tops, berets and toss a string of onions around our necks. There must be more to this than the mere donning of cliched threads.
Maybe genocide...

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hugo7 in reply to @The_Kindness_of_Trees

I think a key element of cultural appropriation has to be an imbalance in power or some suppression of cultural identity.

In both the cases you've listed you're starting with dominant cultures that haven't been suppressed or forced to change their identity.

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The_Kindness_of_Trees in reply to @hugo7

That's what I mean. What you said - the turning of a "culturally diverse group of people into one caricatured homogeneous culture based on a degrading Hollywood stereotype" - isn't a problem unless the group in question has been violently subjugated.

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