Message from @Mal
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i love being told all about cultural appropriation **in English**.
That's cultural imperialism bro
*Tongue clicking sounds*
Internalized oppression and whatnot
@BrianBoru the only imperialism I aprove
Culture always changes
It never stays the same
And you cant argue that westerners dont have it better
The very idea of civilizations evolving is the idea of cultural exchange
Westerners have it better
Oh lol
That's what annoys the fuck outa me with cultural appropriation
cultural relativism, brightens any day
dude, i'm black and i can't stand american blacks
I only see the point of historical relativism
Dont judge the past on todays standards
Absolutley, jusdging the past on current morals is the reason the church defamed all the statues in Rome and now has a bag of Dicks in its basement somewhere
Something I have never forgiven them for
And the statue genocide in US
yep
so long as we don't start arguing that it's impossible to judge other currently existing cultures for their terrible ideas, I don't think we have much of a problem
not that I'd expect something like that here, really
yeha, basically my idea is that cultures should be held to the highest ideal of their time
but of course they would have to have relativley close proximity, Rome and China for instance, didn't have much contact, so we couldn't really judge them together.
Because they were basically two different worlds
You can judge current cultures
Otherwise they will never better themself
yes, but we judge them based on the current highest ideal, I wouldn't want our cultures to be judged in 200 years based on the ideals 200 years from now
cause of course it will be considered defficient
from the perspective of an imagined culture that has had longer time to mature and develop, I'm certain we'd still be considered drooling barbarians.
Well, if they were ignorant
Not putting us in our historical context
perhaps, but I wouldn't immediately fault them for thinking so
If we know better, then they should
Yes we are connected
That is why we live a better life
We do know better. If we're struggling with the same issues in 50 years, which I certainly don't hope, there's a case to be made against at least part of us.
That's fair
Nobody is perfect
Yes, but we still have people who believe in judging the past on the present, which is very worrying
considering they have had sucess