Is furniture cultural appropriation?
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Anonymous
| I saw a wall paper in a rental home that I thought was racist once. It's out there. But I've never seen anything for sale in the category of decor in modern stores that I thought was across a line. Now, heading to antique stores and there's all kinds of racist decor. But it's collected, often, by African American people, to remember where we came from. |
Anonymous
And IKEA Swedish meatballs in the freezer? |
Anonymous
I love the eBay fabric. |
Anonymous
Long ago in days of yore it all began with a god named Thor. There are Vikings and boats and some plans for a furniture store. |
Anonymous
Why is African art “strange?” Seriously. I want to understand why you think this? Should a person have no art that isn’t from their own culture, or is it just African art that you think is offensive? |
Anonymous
| Cultural appropriation is paying someone not in a culture who copied from a culture. It's a form of copyright violation. |
Anonymous
+1 Indian-American here. I'm offended by Ganesh flip flops, absolutely because that's sacrilege, but not at all offended by your gorgeous dress that is inspired by silk saris or the kantha quilt you bought off Etsy for your bed. |
Anonymous
Just stop |
Anonymous
It's obvious Chairman Mao worried about it. He only went so far as to appropriate the Russian Communist look and gave all the citizen no choice but to wear that Mao outfit for decades. The country had been in a fashion vacuum for so long. I hypothesize that's the reason why still so many Mainlanders remain awkwardly turned out in western garb - clashing patterns (florals don't work with stripes), wearing baseball hats indoors (and no, a D&G branded hat doesn't make it OK), boots in summer, thigh highs in school, wearing white to other people's weddings... that sort of thing. Even the countriest bumpkin feels a need to put on a suit, a bad suit, because he doesn't really know what he's supposed to wear when he's not toiling in the field. |
Anonymous
Only westerners think of the qipao / cheongsam as something that's supposed to be sexy. It was everyday wear in Republican China. Even today the Vietnamese wear a version of it. Girls ride bikes to school in their qipao / cheongsams. They wear it loose, like most Chinese people do. Because it's too damned hot to wear a tight fitting outfit most of the year in southern China. |
Anonymous
| I am Asian American, I love modern chinoiserie, to a point. But i agree with a pp that the geisha/paddy worker prints give me the ick. I think bc those were mostly in 20th century chinoiserie, and it was during a time of fetishization of Asians. To me, this stereotypical depictions contributed to the “othering” of Asians particularly Asian Americans. But broader patterns, such as cherry blossoms or peonies & dragons are commonly found in Asian homes, and appreciating those themes are appreciation, not appropriation. |
Anonymous
I believe they’re being funny. Ottoman Republic… get it? |
Anonymous
| Btw, what language are we all posting in? |
Anonymous
What a daft thing to say. Chippendale chairs originated in England, does it mean every English person "owns" the right to Chippendale designs and people outside England can't use the designs? There is no such thing as copyrights with culture because no one owns a culture. Culture doesn't belong to you. Culture is a manifestation of humanity. Your argument is no different from those saying Americans was founded by English settlers so America really belongs to the Wasps and no one else. |
Anonymous
The elephant in the room here is that it would be seen as taboo in America where cancel culture is prevalent-especially so if you do anything that may offend ADOS Black people. That’s the biggest grey area where the line is fine. No one wants to walk it. Obviously, by the pp’s statement, you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t. |