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Cultural Appropriation

So I love to laugh and see everything to do about cultural appropriation. This includes the SJW bullshit. So I just wanna give a simple story and why I think Cultural Appropriation is bull.

A while back I had a friend (she was a good friend, but I changed to another school). She was black (since race is so important nowadays) and we were in a play together. We were both Mollusks, or natives to the island in the play, and the director thought it’d be a good idea to put feathers in our hair to really drive home the islander look. Long story short I thought it was a great idea, but my friend thought it was a horrible idea because of cultural appropriation. We got into a semi-argument, more like debate, about the feathers. I told her that feathers were just in nature, on birds, and they belong to no one, except for the birds really, and they can be used by anyone. I won the debate with that and she still said she wasn’t comfortable with the feathers, I just simply told her that if she didn’t want to wear it, she didn’t have to. Though for the end product of the Mollusks design didn’t include feathers, simply because they were forgotten. 

Now the argument of “it’s in nature, everyone is allowed to use and utilize nature” also goes for cultural appropriation. Hair, everyone is born with it, now styles of hair, mostly dreadlocks, have been around since the dawn of the human race. In caveman times, dreadlocks were an apparent style. Now no one made the choice to have it back then, mostly because of the type of dreadlocks were freeform dreads. If you don’t know, freeform dreads are a natural way to get dreads by letting it all knot up and keeping it like that until they form dreads. Now there is an argument that says white people can’t have dreads because their hair isn’t built for it. That they can’t have dreads because it can’t form dreads. Now that is simply untrue this is even stated in a Wikipedia article for dreadlocks “Traditionally, it was believed that in order to create dreadlocks in non-afro-textured hair, an individual had to refrain from brushing, combing or cutting. This lack of hair grooming results in what is called "free form" or "neglect" dreads, where the hair mats together slowly of its own accord.” (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadlocks).