I happen to read this article and then felt like putting forth certain fundamental flaws in approach https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/lionel-shrivers-full-speech-i-hope-the-concept-of-cultural-appropriation-is-a-passing-fad#comment-83358971
What is culture? The highly
misused and misinterpreted term why?
We suffer due to lack of proper definition and misappropriation rather than appropriation.
Too much of assigning labels, getting imprisoned in the
identity cages created by these through ideological and emotional appeals along
with sensationalistic frenzy supplied by mass opinion molding industry of
vested interest groups, lobbies, ideology marketers, victimhood peddlers, many other zealots and mafias who define what is
moral and what is immoral; what is religious and what is not; what is important
and what is not; they invariably mask everything with scriptural or chosen
ideological justifications or excuses of
traditions.
They do not realize that in the process they are not only
making a mockery of everything human and humane and also blocking the
psychological evolution of humanity.
Here I would like to share two links one obviously an
attempt to define culture, not traditional practices or arts confined to any
particular geographical zone [which have their own beauty and benefits] or practices
pertaining any specific religion [which have their own justifications and
significance] or practices of certain ideological outfits [which have their own
claims to greatness] but what everyone
fails to notice is that there is no panacea nor any single global spectacle
which can be classified as a global culture however much every outfit may try
to homogenize.
Variety manifests itself and always awaits only harmonizing bends
and not homogenizing trends.
Nature needs synthesis not mere thesis or traditions.
Culture and its
multiple facets
Identity veneration and ideology peddling the great
stumbling blocks preventing Unity
Definitions –the need
for them
When clear cut definitions
are not there, then this is what happens
What many things
could actually be…
Panacea – nothing is
a panacea for all human problems
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