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[quote=Anonymous]NP here and didn't read all the way through so maybe this has already been addressed.

I think that the most important thing is to help him understand that while he may perceive his speech, dress, and music preferences as his "native" context, others may perceive him as borrowing them.  The best thing you can teach him is to be gracious if/when it does bother someone and/or they call him out on it.  There is a big difference between a person who shares interests with friends and enjoys being part of a group and a person who acts like they are entitled to do whatever, whenever, taking from whomever, because they are white (or male or rich).  The polite thing to do is allow appropriation to be defined by those from whom things might be appropriated, and to apologize if that is the case.  There's very little more aggravating than someone who refuses to hear that they have offended someone, and if you can teach your son not to be like that you will have done a good deed.[/quote]

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