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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 9778340" data-attributes="member: 6879661">That’s only half the definition of stealing/theft. You missed out the other half which consists of intending to deprive the owner of the property. Taking the Benin Bronzes was theft. Putting jollof rice in your cookbook isn’t.What you’re actually talking about is disrespect. It’s disrespectful to take the symbol of a brutally oppressed people and a national shame and then use to sell sports tickets. If you take out the brutal oppression then it wouldn’t be a problem.Culture spreads. It’s what it does. As it spreads it changes. Just as the Greek Gods changed when appropriated by the Romans or when Homer wrote about the Odyssey. It’s been this case since people sat and talked around fires.Though I would say that the presence of Norse, Greek and Egyptian gods in modern media is actually a legacy of the enduring quality and resonance of those cultures rather than a sign of disrespect. Imitation as they say is the sincerest form of flattery.</blockquote>