If it was just culture then I’d be super, duper against people outside of Scotland wearing kilts and playing bagpipes.
But, of course, PoC get upset about that because there’s a huge movement tying culture to race. Which is hard when Europe alone has a good few hundred different cultures, that are mostly white people. So saying that all white people have the same culture is annoying and stupid
As it stands, I love telling people where aspects of my culture come from and what they mean. People get upset about it though, in the exact same way. I say ‘hey, this pattern should be called tartan!’ on an episode thread and I get a million people telling me ‘it’s actually flannel/plaid’. When. It is not, my dude. Flannel is a material. Tartan is a pattern.
But again, I get told I have some kind of ‘white culture’? It really isn’t tied to culture at all over here in the west, it’s tied to racism. People don’t like black people so they find any excuse they can to make sure they don’t have the same rights or access to the same jobs. The people who don’t like black people then get into power and it becomes systemic. It’s as simple as that
Cause I mean, I have that ‘history of occupation by the English’ thing. Doesn’t mean all white people have a history and culture tied to English occupation tho. A lot of them are English
There are intersections obviously, because of course there are. There are similarities between different cultures mad up of primarily black or white people. Sometimes even between races, though, that’s the issue. Trying to say that one race has one culture and people outside of that race can’t use something within that culture is going to inevitably lead to racist ideas, because that isn’t how culture works.
That makes sense It’s strange because I’ve seen people use the word ‘culture’ during posts relating to cultural appropriation but I could have actually misinterpreted that…
Cultural appropriation and appreciation is a super interesting topic that I love to delve into, because yes. The tartan pattern on flannel is appropriation. Again, though, it’s a separate thing from race.
Oh yeah, of course. Culture ≠ race. Though I’ve seen some arguments that overlap it and some that suggest it’s the same… Which makes things a lot more confusing ;-; It’s been a while since I’ve seen this topic come up on the insta community so my memory’s a bit hazy.
Yeah, people on both sides of any given race argument tend to overlap culture and race. White nationalists are the most transparent about it, though. They say that wanting a white ethnostate isn’t a racial thing, it’s cultural. When we just mentioned, white people have hundreds, if not thousands of completely different cultures around the globe.
The only thing you will accomplish by overlapping culture and race is confusion. A temporary out in a debate until your opposition turns round and says ‘but… Wait, we were talking about race, not culture’
Thanks for clearing that up! >~<
It’s strange because I’ve seen people use the word ‘culture’ during posts relating to cultural appropriation but I could have actually misinterpreted that…
