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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Black person here.  First, I hate the term "cultural misappropration" - that the hell is that all about.

Now for my two cents.  If your child's black friends are not in the habit of engaging in "hip hop" dress and speech then your son will come accross like a total idiot and will likely be ridiculed.  If however, the opposite is true he is probably ok.   Basically, its all about context.  If your son is not smart enough to figure out when and where it is appropriate to go "gangsta" then that is what you should help him with.[/quote]

OP here.  So you are a little hostile in this post which basically confirms what I am afraid of.

Yes, he's engaging in speech and dress similar to some of his friends, but they are African American and he's not. No, he's not an idiot.  I see what you mean -- if he's a white kid in Potomac going around doing this, he would look stupid.  But we live in Silver Spring, where there are plenty of African American kids who do this too but plenty who don't.

Cultural misappropriation is a perfectly reasonable term here, I think.  In fact, it is the whole question -- is he appropriating things from a culture not his own and inadvertently offending the members of that culture?  Or is hip hop universal enough that people won't be offended?

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