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>Here is what I think Cultural Appropriation is. Stealing
>peoples stuff and passing it off as your own. White
>Musicians going down to the Blues Delta listening to black
>bluesmen and then passing that music off as their own? That's
>Cultural Appropriation. Madonna learning Voguing from the
>gays and passing it off as her own? That's Cultural
>Appropriation. Miley Cyrus being credited for inventing
>twerking? That's Cultural Appropriation.
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>Now there is a thin line between an artist bringing a certain
>cultural practice to a larger audience while giving credit to
>the creators, I think that's okay. Maybe Madonna did that. I
>forget.
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That's where I'm at with it. Bruno credits Black music as the foundation of American music, including Puerto Rican music. Cultural appropriation rarely or doesn't give credit to the source at all. They'd rather take the credit for themselves.


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