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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wouldn't that be cultural appropriation?   You are racist/insensitive/hateful/callous if you are not a Swede and trying to look like a Swede, don't you know? [/quote]

No, cultural appropriation is acting like part of someone else's culture is your culture, without permission--you know, [i]appropriating[/i] it--or passing yourself off being part of a culture for an advantage you would not get as a person of your culture, or selling a cultural icon or idea that is not yours. Just [i]wearing[/i] something you bought in another country is not appropriating a culture. [/quote]

Obviously PP is trolling - but I think it sort of depends. [b]If you buy a traditional garment or a religious garment from another country and wear it, it can be iffy. If you just buy clothes from another country, I think that's unreservedly fine.[/b] If you just like the style you've picked up from another country, I think that's fine, too. Like that frenchy frenchy look with the striped shirts - you will pry those shirts off my body when I am dead.

There's a punching up/punching down aspect to this, too. If you are a wealthy white person who is aping the style of a less privileged group of people, there's something icky about it. If you're some middle class American admiring the style of those goddess Scandinavians, I think that's a different story.[/quote]

Thus the "without permission." [/quote]

How do you get "permission"? [/quote]

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