Okay, so there have been a lot of accusations of ‘cultural appropriation’ flying about recently.
Wikipedia defines cultural appropriation as the adoption of some specific elements of one culture by a different cultural group. As such cultural appropriation happens all the time in the form of people taking aspects of a culture outside of their own and using it in the arts, music, cooking and so on. This borrowing, sharing and being inspired by other cultures sounds like a positive thing. However the term has recently been used in much more sinister way. Angry individuals have been throwing around accusations of ‘cultural appropriation’ with accusations of ignorance, racism and neo-colonialism subtly following.
