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<blockquote data-quote="Enevhar Aldarion" data-source="post: 7272374" data-attributes="member: 6818233"><p>Most cries of cultural appropriation are just PC BS coming from people who get offended by everything and are just looking for attention. That said, there are some legitimate situations where cultural appropriation is real, though it is more cultural insensitivity. Wearing or using something from another culture that even someone from that culture would not be allowed to use except is special circumstances is the big one. The example I think of each time for this is whenever someone not qualified to wear a Native American war bonnet, or chief's bonnet, goes running around in one for some photo shoot or for Halloween, or for whatever. Or people who are not Hindu putting the dot on their forehead because they think it looks "cool". That is my main rule for this stuff: if it is something that is restricted to certain people in the culture it belongs to, and you do not qualify for it, then you should not be doing it.</p><p></p><p>Of course, that is all for real world stuff. For a role-playing game, you just have to try to be respectful of the culture you are basing something on. You also need to be truthful about those cultures, even if the truth hurts. For example, African tribes captured members of rival tribes and sold them to the European slave traders. If you use that in your fantasy world and someone is offended by it, then tough luck for them because you are using the truth and not slandering a real culture.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Enevhar Aldarion, post: 7272374, member: 6818233"] Most cries of cultural appropriation are just PC BS coming from people who get offended by everything and are just looking for attention. That said, there are some legitimate situations where cultural appropriation is real, though it is more cultural insensitivity. Wearing or using something from another culture that even someone from that culture would not be allowed to use except is special circumstances is the big one. The example I think of each time for this is whenever someone not qualified to wear a Native American war bonnet, or chief's bonnet, goes running around in one for some photo shoot or for Halloween, or for whatever. Or people who are not Hindu putting the dot on their forehead because they think it looks "cool". That is my main rule for this stuff: if it is something that is restricted to certain people in the culture it belongs to, and you do not qualify for it, then you should not be doing it. Of course, that is all for real world stuff. For a role-playing game, you just have to try to be respectful of the culture you are basing something on. You also need to be truthful about those cultures, even if the truth hurts. For example, African tribes captured members of rival tribes and sold them to the European slave traders. If you use that in your fantasy world and someone is offended by it, then tough luck for them because you are using the truth and not slandering a real culture. [/QUOTE]
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