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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think we're in danger of "exoticizing" other cultures when we get too worried about cultural appropriation.

We should make a genuine effort to teach and learn about a culture, not just use its material culture for our amusement or fashion, but food, art, rituals ... these are all the elements that make another culture relatable and make us fall in love with it.

Do you want children to grow up caring about the plight of the American Indians? Then they do need to learn age-appropriate information about them, preferably from Indians. But then we say, don't you dare make a version of that headdress you were so compelled by! Don't buy that beautiful vest with Indian designs at the powwow and wear it! In fact, don't go to the powwow since you're just watching for entertainment and general interest! Let them have their dignity, and leave them in obscurity!

There are appropriate and inappropriate ways to introduce cultures to children. It seems like we assume that it's always going to be inappropriate. We aren't all going to take a semester-long course on every other culture starting in PreK.[/quote]
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