Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.
“just set a timer for twenty minutes, take a nap!”
yeah but what happens if it takes me a while to get to sleep? what if i need to pee? google says 20 minutes is optimum time for a nap but i don’t think i’ll fall asleep INstantly but if i set it for 30 minutes i might fall asleep quickly and then i’ll be tired for the rest of the day there are too many variables and i am so stressed
If you like and support a culture, live it, show them you respect and like it, learn the language, follow the traditions and love the music.
Are you white and rich and want to be a rapper because you love rap? Go ahead and be a rapper.
Are you black and love Japanese culture? Then live it.
As long as you show love, understanding and respect to the culture you want to live as, then go ahead, live it.
No one race or nationality “owns” a culture, culture is something that can never be “owned”, it is something that is meant to be shared and promoted among EVERYONE.
I, for example, am a Puerto Rican who LOVES Japanese culture and music, I have been trying my hardest to learn the language and learn as much about the culture. Under “cultural appropriation”, what I am doing is racist and wrong. I should instead stick to my Puerto Rican culture and speak only Spanish because learning a foreign language that is not your native tongue is racist and appropriating another culture.
To conclude, cultural appropriation is a bunch of racist bullshit and if you think I am wrong, just unfollow me and hold your peace.
~ADRNEL
P.S. blackface, yellowface etc is a completely different subject all together, because it is used to mock and stereotype a culture or race and not promote and respect it.
