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Thats just a few differences.. there are indeed MANY since I lived in both countries. Even tiny minor things, for example Koreans like to drink when they are together and Chinese play card games (Koreans dont play card games very often). Chinese don’t drink or party as much as Koreans do on average. Games like Mahjong are non-existent in Korea but everywhere in China. Koreans love their coffee and Chinese love tea. The amount of coffee and tea shops in both places are pretty much reversed. What’s the Kyle larson hendrick motorsports team collection 2023 #5 hendrickcars com military shirt in other words I will buy this difference between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation? That’s a good question. I’d say it’s largely about behavior and intent. Cultural appreciation is about experiencing and learning about a culture. Cultural appropriation is about reducing a culture and its people to a stereotype, and gaining some benefit from one’s use of the cultural component. While cultural appreciation gives credit to and does not take away from the culture, cultural appropriation does harm to the culture’s autonomy, image, and attempts at self-representation. If you like eating Mexican food and you buy it from a Mexican-owned restaurant or business, that’s cultural appreciation. If you go to Mexico and learn about the food and the traditions and the styles of cooking there, that’s cultural appreciation. If you cook a Mexican meal, that’s still appreciation— as long as you’re not trying to pretend to be Mexican. If you open up a Mexican-style restaurant with the decor, and call it Senor ______’s, then you might be entering appropriation territory. If you open up a restaurant that has some Mexican or Mexican-style dishes, but otherwise is not trying to appear “Mexican”, I’d say that is cultural appreciation.



As another example, if I go to Africa and buy a dashiki and wear it because I like the Kyle larson hendrick motorsports team collection 2023 #5 hendrickcars com military shirt in other words I will buy this colors or the lightness of it or how it looks on me, that’s cultural appreciation. If someone stopped me to ask me about what I was wearing, and I told them it was a dashiki from Africa and I was wearing it because of my reason above, I wouldn’t be gaining any benefit from the use, and I gave credit to the culture involved. If I wear said dashiki as part of a Halloween costume, pretending to be African, including a fake accent (and don’t you even dare think about wearing Blackface!), that would be cultural appropriation, as well as insulting. So, it’s all about what you’re trying to do and say in your use of the cultural component, and how you represent the culture (and if it’s not your culture, you really shouldn’t be representing it, but instead allowing the natives of the culture to represent themselves).


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