Question

1. Please discuss an example of cultural appropriation you have heard about in the last few years.
   1. Why is this cultural appropriation?
   2. How could we prevent this from having negative aspects on our personal or professional working relationships?
   3. Do you think we have more cultural appropriation in society now or

Answer 1

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The recent examples which i heared in last few years Pharrell Williams, being slammed for wearing Native American headwear,  Zac Effron adopted sporting dreadlocks of african culture and Katy Perry, being criticised for performing as a Geisha.The most controversial was for me Selena Gomex wearning "bindi" during her stage performance which caught huge debate over either selena was misuing the symbol of Bindi under Hinduism or ot supporting or relating the bindi to its origin of Hinduism but her own self expression.

These are examples of Cultural appropriation because Cultural appropriation occurs when people of one culture adopts some or more elements of another culture especially minority culture.Here we can see how Zac effron and Selena Gomez member of western culture which is dominant in nature adopting elements of african and Hindu culture which is minority culture but not know what is story, origin or meaning behind those elements.

We can prevent this from having negative aspects on our personal or professional working relationship first doing proper research of the culture and its element. Taking without respect, knowledge or insight will ultimately lead to a serious backlash and accusations of cultural theft and cultural misrepresentation. second, Try to avoid sacred means there are elements which are considered sacred and not meant for fun or joke around. For example- Cruxifix is used as necklace but it is symbol of god in US culture so if other people make fun of it or used in such an inappropriate way so it would be bad cultural misappropriation.Third do not focus on stereotype and promote diversity.Try to share, enage and promote benefits to others.

Yes, we have more cultural appropriate in our society because of globalization and social media, people are getting to know about each other's culture. There are people all over the world who are using dressing style, hair style, makeup,art, music etc using from each other's culture.