Cultural Appropriation

Cultural appropriation occurs when a dominant cultural group adopts elements of another minority group’s heritage or cultural makeup.

Throughout pop culture, there are many instances of people from a dominant culture wearing the fashions, using the dialects, or otherwise utilizing the “intellectual property” that rightfully belongs to a minority or Indigenous culture.

ESSAY

Example:

To this day, many people attend music festivals wearing Native American headdresses although they are not Native Americans. This is an example of cultural appropriation, and it can cause a great deal of warranted offense.

How it affects society

Cultural appropriation fuels social inequality, injustice, and racism. It is important to note that cultural appropriation also fuels social inequality, injustice, and racism.

Disadvantages:

Cultural appropriation also has a nasty habit of giving the dominant group credit for aspects of a culture that they have taken, reinforcing the power imbalance between the two groups.

How?

Be respectful

Educate yourself

Practice Cultural Appreciation

Conclusion

At the end of the day cultural appropriation is a problem in our society.
Since it creates lots of problems for people of culture, like stereotypes and oppression.