So Asians are not good enough to act? 
Well if you watched The Last Airbender movie, the casts do not match the description and they kept mispronouncing each other’s characters. The movie has bad ratings because of the cultural appropriation.
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Cultural appropriation isn’t a good thing. It means claiming, stealing and wearing cultural stuff without knowing the cultural meaning. I think you mean Cultural appreciation.
Anti-Cultural Appropriation isn’t bad if you are against people stealing and claiming cultures.
So you are saying asians are not good enough to act?
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I disagree with your definition of cultural appropriation. Anyone can do it, I think. And also, I agree only to an extent. So like, if a black girl is wearing box braids and she’s getting mistreated for it, that is messed up and should never happen. And then if a white girl does it later and gets praised, that’s even more wrong, in my opinion. That isn’t fair.
But if a white girl is wearing box braids because she likes them, there shouldn’t be like a “oh wow, such good!! YAY!”
It should be met with equal response. It is okay for anyone to wear what they want. No one should be treated rudely because of it.
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No. I didn’t. It is actually more about actors who are more famous mostly
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Who said anything about black characters? I said minorities. I’ve been saying minorities since we started this conversation. I used black characters as an example. This has been about black, gay, Muslim, Latino even women. Anyone who isn’t a cisgender straight white male.
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Culture appropriation can be misunderstood. Culture appropriation is when you take something from someone else’s culture after you disrespect their culture. Culture appreciation is when you use something from another culture and not mocked them
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No, that’s not cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation is stealing, claiming cultures, and wearing cultural stuff without knowing the meaning and history behind it.It’s not racist if they are wearing it incorrectly, claiming and stealing it. It’s different if they are appreciating the culture. If they are, they can gladly do so. If they are shaming someone for cultural appreciation then that’s messed up.
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Exactly.
The Last Airbender was bad for a lot of reasons, cultural appropriation was not one of them. It was bad because the actors were bad, they messed up the lore and just…RUINED Avatar!! Travesty!
However…Shamaylan (sp?) said that his target audience wasn’t those of us with a nostalgia boner who love the original Avatar so much, but for young, young kids who mostly actually loved the movie. (because they don’t know any better) lol
So yeah. Also, quite the contrary, I replied to you earlier with a bunch of Asian characters being portrayed by Asians that are fantastic, so…let’s not say Asians aren’t good enough to act, please.
Have you seen any Bollywood movies? Best. Musicals. Ever. Hands down.
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My comment was about all kinds of people if u didn’t notice.
Cultural appropriation was kinda because of it. But not entirely. It was because white people were playing as Asian characters instead of actual Asians. Asians should have been casted for it since it was a mostly Asian cast for the show.
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That’s actually fair.
Katara and Sokka would be the Indians…Indians are waterbenders. Chinese are the airbenders…hmm…
I think the Japanese would have been the earthbenders because they’re intense. Samurais, man…or wait. Maybe Mongols. :hyperthinking:
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Like, if an Indian girl wears a sari and she gets bashed but when a white women wears a sari for a Halloween customs or without knowing the actual meaning behind it, that’s cultural appropriation. If the white women did know the meaning behind it and appreciating the beauty, that’s appreciation.
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Well, it has something to do with the history of white people in America and how they have discrimanated against and oppressed almost every non-white person. Sad, but true. Sure a non-white person can also cultural appropriate but it wouldn’t be as bad as if a white person did it. That’s just how people feel. I however, am not one of those people.
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Braids like Bantu knots and Box Braids do have cultural meaning.
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Yeah.
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Give me an example of what someone of color can appropriate. I am generally intrested. I mostly see white people getting called out.
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This is kinda…wrong? How about all people should be equal for judging?