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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ReshiIRE" data-source="post: 8473395" data-attributes="member: 7031231">I want to point out some things as well. In some ways, some cultures from Europe are appropriated*, though to a much less degree and with less harm than cultures not from Europe. For example, I don't think it's unfair to say that in the US, elements of Irish culture have been taken, used and jigged around to form incredibly (and hilariously) inaccurate stereotypes, inaccuracies and weirdness imaginable. Leprecians everywhere... fighting Irish... sometimes boiling down to uh supporting the IRA... And while honestly, this is pretty much harmless because Irish people aren't oppressed by people in the United States and Ireland is now a rich first world country, and Irish people can easily laugh it off, and obviously there are significantly worse examples of appropriation and misrepresentation out there... it's still akin to it in ways, no? It's still happening, despite the active engagement between Irish people and Americans and Irish Americans.Hell, we were even talking about Critical Role earlier, and their uh... expresses of Irishness outside of in character attempts at an Irish accent have been... way off the mark to say the least.So, from that perspective, it's pretty easy to see that as audiences get more diverse and people from around the world actually get a voice and a way to communicate their concerns, that sensitivity, grace and a reminder that cultures are extremely varied, diverse, and complicated to navigate when you're from that culture itself, not to say anything of being outside of that culture, is needed.Especially when some people have signficiantly more ways and resources to push their voice than others.* I'm using this in the most neutral way I can, as I explain the paragraph.</blockquote>

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