I guess I could have put it more clearly that the displacement of communities in which culture developed often takes away the ability to practice it in any meaningful fashion. When people are driven from the living places, places of congregation and socialization they relied upon to really be effectively practiced by things like increased living costs, gentrification, etc.

@MereMortal I think my statement is pretty clear.but if you need it explained further..

If I emulate the actions of another, they do not lose the ability to perform those same actions. No theft, nothing has been lost by the emulated, only something gained for the emulator.

If there is no victim, there is no wrong doing. Therefor cultural appropriation (because thats what the OP is talking about) is, ultimately not a thing.

Not to be confused with actual plagiarism, which is theft of intellectual property of an individual, potentially stealing revenue of that property.
That is a separate (although sometimes related) issue.

@MereMortal LMFAO, Im sorry, I wasnt in the app, 'still waiting' is something you say when your response goes unanswered for a prolonged period, unless your goal is to sound like a demanding petulant child, of course.

@MereMortal lmao, You arent equipped for a debate, you don't even understand the question posed.
The fact that you offer no rebuttal, and claim that I am 'ignorant and dismissed' shows how pathatically biased and weak your stance is.

@MereMortal of course to a idiot like yourself, everyone that you don't like is a Nazi. gtfoh. You are a literal joke =D

@MereMortal Oh did they? News to me. But its cute how you can't engage, just throw incendiary rhetoric. You lost the moment you used the term Nazi. It's pathetic, but so funny I can't help laugh.
You are so weak, you need to paint everyone else as a super bad, in the vain attempt that someone -anyone- might care.

@MereMortal Oh the hypocrisy! Im fucking dying here. You must be the product of inbreeding, or meth.

@MereMortal You called me a Nazi, and then complain about my ad hom?! It's fucking gold man.

Many native ceremonies have been appropriated by non-natives when they are not fully understood . Pi have seen it often, where they start teaching the ways when they have no clue . Also, we as a people arw just beginning to heal ourselves, and until 1978 i believe we weee not able to legally practice our ceremonies . So there are reasons have a peaceful night

Explain this, sir, because your remark looks a whole lot like gratuitous racism to me..........how is it different that the cults that sprung up around jeezus, Buddha, etc etc.

@AnneWimsey The critique of culture has nothing to do with the color of a person's skin. It's a very narrow-minded assumption to believe that it necessarily does.

@rcandlish nowhere did I mention "color", I asked you, and am still asking you, to explain your slur based on belief.

@AnneWimsey I'll give you an analogy: why do you think a system of law has developed to protect intellectual property rights? Surely ideas are a common currency and as such the best ideas belong to all?

@rcandlish Still waiting for your explanation of dragging in a religious slur.......
And BTW one of my brothers, an attorney, deals with musical copywright law quite frequently, especially as a songwriter himself.
However, again, why, exactly, did you drag in "islam".....? Why just not man up and admit you are a fomentor of predjudice?

@AnneWimsey Islam is a 6th century religion centered on Jihad, a Holy War raged against all who do not embrace its faith. This is not just metaphorical, but history attests that the threat is real and is not likely to go away just because we wish it to.

The values of Islam are diametrically opposed to those which we, heirs of the Western Enlightenment hold precious.

Why do I assert that Islam was conceived from cultural theft? Well for this we have to go from one storybook to another. The Jewish Torah and the Koran are based upon a common notion, "the inheritance of Abraham's blessing." Though just a fairy story, millions upon millions have perished due to a twist in interpretation. Isaac or Ishmael? The Koran itself is not specific, it just talks of "the holy one." It is the Hadiths that do the damage. The Torah predates the Koran by at least a millennium, its key concept has been appropriated by a hostile group and turned into a savage murderous weapon, not only upon the Jews but upon the whole world.

I would ask you Anne Wimsey, have you ever studied the Koran, the Hadiths or the history of Islamic Conquest to give you a right to claim informed opinion?

@rcandlish and the babble borrowed heavily from the civilizations before it, for example the notion of the Flood, to name just one..so we should similarly condemn it, right?
"Informed opinions" are usually free of racist bias, sorry.

@AnneWimsey I repeat I have shown no racism, but have merely assessed an aspect of culture. You are the one who is falsely accusing!

@rcandlish yessirree