Aloha, baby ... PC food police force another shutdown

Sorry, but I think that's more a case of us (or at least the corporate "us") forcing our way in, not them stealing culture from us.

But your failed analogy does not change the correctness of your intended point: the cultural appropriation BS is stupid.

 

Doesn't understand the fuss:

 

Are they protesting every Target and Wal-mart and every costume store and half the souvenir stands in Florida who sell those plastic leis?

 

Forcing our way? Did McDonald's invade Paris, evict some homeless people and build the golden arches? Pretty sure American restaurant franchises have to undergo stuff such as the legal purchase or lease of land and zoning requirements in foreign nations, just like here.

 

You're responding to an imaginary post.

 

There's some quality whitesplaining on this thread.

 

Whatever. The fact remains that your "McDonalds abroad" analogy utterly misses the point.

Nobody's bitching about anyone buying or eating food from another culture. Instead, the cultural appropriation bitching is about folks supposedly stealing (ie. "appropriating") someone else's culture by adopting a custom or producing something identified with that culture in a way for which those native to the culture disapprove.

It's still generally a dumb thing (at least with the laughable way it frequently gets interpreted by PC liberal America), but not for reasons addressed by your analogy. Nobody in Paris thinks McDonald's Corporation is presenting itself as emblematic of French culture, everyone knows it's culturally an American thing.

 

I'm all for cross-cultural exchanges and melting pots, but I'll be damned if I start eating barbecue from Yankees.

 

Hell, there are Southerners who can't get barbecue right. Like the entire mustard-loving state of South Carolina.

 

So we can all agree that those dumbass frat/sor parties with theme nights that are incredibly stereotypical are bad, right?

And a Korean family owning a pizza place is fine, right?

So it's not a matter of whether the principle is sound. It's just bitching over degrees.

 

Right. Seems logical enough, but I may just be a SJW.

 

All I know is there is a pizza place that's still open after I get done stringing games and it's always better when the Hispanic guy is working than when the Asian dude is there.