Why do white people steal from other cultures?

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Since you are all dying to see what I look like. I'm not black like you all thought. I'm a 19 year old Latina !

RJGraveyTrain · Accepted Answer

Uh, I don't know how tanning or getting lip injections is stealing anyone else's culture because first of all: tanning is a natural occurrence in the white race so it's not exactly racist to tan if it... occurs naturally anyway? I'm pale as shit and my skin whether I wear sun screen or not tans slightly if I'm in the sun so it's not stealing someone's culture if my biology allows it to happen.

Also black people aren't the only people on this planet born with big lips and asses, I know white girls with natural big lips and natural big asses, , and not everyone who gets lip injections or butt implants makes fun of black people who have big lips, so... I don't get this either. Because some people have done so that means that all white people are automatically guilty for it?

Also I didn't realize there were dances that were "black only." Also, what's wrong if people want to celebrate other holidays? I mean how many non-Christians celebrate Christmas? I get the whole "if they want to deport immigrants" thing but not every white person does. Again this seems like a mass (ironically kind of racist) generalization.

This is ridiculous. I'd understand if some white person actually did black face, tried to claim to be black or stole and made a mockery of a traditional garb of someone's culture, but everything you explained here is not necessarily culture or race specific other than the holiday. Most of these are trends or irrelevant to culture and race. Is everyone who buys Brazilian hair extensions stealing someone else's culture? I don't personally think so. Is anybody who learns another language stealing someone's culture? No. Lol.

I think you could make this argument if people were going out and dressing up in traditional say, Native garbs and hollering war cries at people in the street as being offensive. But I don't think getting lip injections to look like Kim K is stealing anybody's culture. It's just a fad. Lol.

BaileyisDarcy · Accepted Answer

Cause we don't have much of a culture of our own?

Honestly, I asked once why Japan structures are always so intricate and beautiful and ours are so... flat and bland and lacking decor.

It's because the western world treasures value for money while practically everywhere else will mix functionality with design, without considering the cost with as much serious thought as we put in.

So in this modern age, where it's easier to make something pretty for little to no cost, the western world simply does not have their own historical design choices to fall back on other than bland and boring and cost effective. So we reference other cultures in an attempt to spice up our own.

When it comes to everything else... Not a clue. I only researched architecture while trying to design a set for a Japanese play.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Why do Asian, Latina and Black steal White culture? We never asked them to have a double eyelid or to get a skin more white neither to straight their hair like us... Or to dress like us... Who steal White culture now? Who's trying to look White? #Double standard #WhitesCultureMatters

curiousnorway · Accepted Answer

I thinks you're generalizing white people. First of all white people are like everyone else. They're different with different taste, values etc. Not all white people are racist and not all white people are thinking the same.

1. Tan in the Western society is a status symbol on someone are active or can afford a vacation on the beach so you gets a tan in addition to getting an exotic look. Therefor the look is popular. It hasn't anything to do with race and there's a lot of non-racist white people who respects brown people as much as non-brown people.

2. First of all people living nowadays isn't guilty in what people did in the past. Secondly usually it's not the same people who gets lip injection that mock black people's lips. It's often different people.

3. Same as number 2.

4. Where I lives it's not common for anyone to wear dreads. I've seen some white people wearing it and they aren't racist. Some of them are against racism too. They just likes the hairstyle and no races owns it.

5. Sometimes a celebration isn't only for immigrants, but is also common among citizen in a country. People who celebrate doesn't necessary want to get rid of immigrants. It depends on the person.

6. I doubt there's a thing like "black people's slang or dialect". Everybody who wants to join a group or who just likes the way of talking can talk with slang, accent/dialect etc.

Everyone should be allowed to try out new cultures and traditions, and it's natural to do so in a multicultural society. A certain culture doesn't belong to only one race and it's not like immigrants shouldn't be allowed to join a country's culture. I'm Norwegian and I follows the Norwegian or Western culture, but I'm an Asian. So do that mean I'm stealing "white" culture? I doesn't see it in that way. I sees culture and race as two different things.

nayougood · Accepted Answer

You're beautiful

madhatters4 · Answer

all races and cultures appropriate aspects of other cultures

TheOtakuMaid · Answer

why do other races steal from our culture?

democracy.
western society
modern science
modern medicine
equality
the abolishment of slavery.

though I agree white people need to stop speaking ghetto and doing shitty dances we should have more Pride than that.

Fine difference between a thick ass and a fat ass based on being fat.

also yes the lip thing is stupid too.

tanned skin is hardly similar to natural brown skin. but I like my women pasty white. which funny how the Japanese are called Yellowman when some of them are as white as I am and I am Vampiric white.

also, most want to deport ILLEGAL immigrants. believe it or not Legal and Illegal are two different words

RolandCuthbert · Answer

Well, I am "Black" from a point of view, African-American specifically. And I would say "White" Americans in this society, have definitely borrowed from our culture. But we have borrowed from them also. I guess maybe the theory of race and the theories on "White" supremacy complicates things. You would wonder why any racist of any color would proceed to borrow from groups he thought to be inferior to his own.

But in reality, we are one big world culture. We have always borrowed, interbred, and mixed whenever we have come into contact with other groups of humans.

Partywithtom · Answer

Boy that's not a racist comment at all. I'll assume you're black and don't worry. You stole plenty of white culture "things". English, clothes, food , furniture... yeah the list goes on. It's really a stupid argument in all honesty.

Randomawkwardperson · Answer

Uhm not all white people need lip injections, not all white people get butt injections, literally neither of those have to with race, and do you really want me to list all the things that white people made that you have been using? Honestly, these posts annoy me, like grow up.

rgb008 · Answer

LOL. YOU GOT EM THERE, ANONYMOUS INTERNET POSTER. YOU'RE REALLY GONNA STOP THEM ALL. WHAT AN AMAZING ACTIVIST YOU ARE!

TadCurious · Answer

So the fact that white people's skin can tan is "stealing" from other cultures? Seriously? Why is the physiologic response of some white people's skin to sun exposure something that offends you as cultural theft? And I don't celebrate Cinco de Mayo. And I only want illegal aliens to be deported and legal immigrants who commit crimes

COCOCHANEL · Answer

pale skin is beautiful.  it's ethereal, angelic and pure.  humans are naturally attracted to colour contrast.  this tanning bs is stupid.

disgustingweebtrash · Answer

I don't do any of that shit. The thing is, the only people I notice do that are white girls or people who hate themselves for being white (left-wingers) oops I slipped

hvydna2018 · Answer

Everyone below me already summed up everything I was gonna say on this topic to a T. The vast majority of white people have average sized lips you dumb bitch. And there are hundreds of millions of white people both untanned and naturally tanned with bigger butts and lips-those features aren't exclusive to you or anyone. I see hispanic women all the time with no ass and shaped like fridges. Quit talking all your shit you ugly brown mestizo bitch.

Physics-Man · Answer

Really? Steal from other cultures? That's just an excuse for the incompetency of the black race and of mestizos such as yourself. The Asian and the Caucasian races are the only competent ones. Do you really believe some black dude or mestizo is going to end up inventing something like a time machine or Warp drive? Bullshit! If those inventions ever come to fruition, it's going to be due to an Asian or Caucasian man.

Anonymous · Answer

What do you mean steal? Like, use other cultures in very trivial ways? I think culture sharing is crucial for progression. Yes, certain aspects can remain private but I don't see cultures exploring other cultures as a bad thing. It can create a new culture. Culture isn't stagnant. Whatever culture you have is vastly different from your ancestor's culture centuries ago.

InfoBot · Answer

Cultural appropriation is rife across all cultures and always has been. To suggest that white people are the only ones guilty of this would be naive.

Enochian · Answer

Lol... I don't think steal us the appropriate word to use here... Basically I'm just implying that black people do the same (like try to be white). Take Michael Jackson for example

castratedwhiteguy · Answer

This is so fucking racist! Hahahaha!!! FYI, if it wasn't for white man's capitalism, white man's Christianity and white man's inventions than your sorry third world ass would still be living in the stone age...

Rissyanne · Answer

That's ridiculous. Nobody owns culture. People can do what they want. I really don't think anyone gives a shit.

Anonymous · Answer

What exactly do we steal? Lmfao by the way yeah you are overly Beautiful woman. How much makeup have you out on? He he he

scooogy · Answer

Don't you think that other cultures steal from white people as well?

Iron_Man · Answer

Latin people and white people steal the Hip Hop culture some of them not everyone and I'm not one of those people that steal actually meaning copying their Style

Anonymous · Answer

Why do stupid people generalize? The world may never know...

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