Cambridge students cancel theme party over 'cultural appropriation' fears

Y'all wanna turn this into a witch hunt so bad, I know secretly some of these kids believe cultural appropriation exists but don't want to risk looking uncool on an anonymous student forum.

I'm only joking about @Ethereal World tagging the wrong person. No witch hunt on my part.

Also, speaking only for myself: I don't believe cultural appropriation is a real thing, secretly or otherwise, and I'd encourage you to take what people say at face value instead of assuming the worst motives for them acting in a way that you don't like.

Most of the threads where I do talk about my heritage concerns the Middle East,so it's relevant. I have been insulted many times and racially abused on here for being an Arab but not once for being an Italian. So what if it's on my profile? My heritage is part of my identity lol

I'm sorry but whenever people talk about individual cases of cultural appropriation,it's not in a good way. The intent of the person attempting appropriate said culture always appears to be malicious in some form,from what I have observed anyway but feel free to show me otherwise

That is what I don't understand, why do you put so my weight on your heritage when it is so irrelevant.

I don't see why you care so much about your heritage.

So you dressing as Cleopatra was malicious?

The real tragedy is these morons go to Cambridge. Are the entry standards so low these days that SJW can get in?

Nope. I wasn't doing it intentionally and had no idea that cultural appropriation existed back in my uni days and cleopatra is middle eastern/medittaranean,so is it really cultural appropriation?

I'm sorry but whenever people talk about individual cases of cultural appropriation,it's not in a good way. The intent of the person attempting appropriate said culture always appears to be malicious in some form,from what I have observed anyway but feel free to show me otherwise

Nope. I wasn't doing it intentionally and had no idea that cultural appropriation existed back in my uni days and cleopatra is middle eastern/medittaranean,so is it really cultural appropriation?

I don't 'care' so much but my heritage is what makes me who I am. What a silly question. Maybe your heritage is irrelevant to you but in certain other countries,one's heritage is a huge part of their identity and something to be proud of especially in the Middle East. I really don't get that sense in the UK so I can see why you might say that

I don't think they ask that at the interview

The real tragedy is these morons go to Cambridge. Are the entry standards so low these days that SJW can get in?

The problem here is that you aren't following a straight line of thought (from what I can see, and I mean that in the nicest way possible). You keep declaring people 'victims' before we've even established that they are -- you seem to operate on the assumption that they are victims by default and that any debate must proceed only after accepting this to be true, which is just not how you debate an issue of this kind.

Anyway, plenty of examples have been cited on this thread. Curry, or the heavily modified version of it found in British restaurants, is a popular food in Britain. If I make some right now, am I stealing something from the Indian community? If you say yes, then you must prove that they had ownership/copyright of this in the first place, which you haven't done so far.

You have also not managed to reconcile your pro-integration worldview with this culture-ownership model that you're arguing for. You cannot have an assimilated multicultural society if you insist on this nonsense barriers that make it taboo to eat the wrong thing, wear the wrong clothes, or get the wrong haircut. The proper word for that is (self-imposed) segregation, and I'm sure that not many people want that.

The price of measuring intelligence using academic grades only, I guess.

What makes you who you are is your actions and experiences, not your ethnicity.

Pride is reserved for your own achievements not your your results of the genetic lottery.

Cambridge interviews students as well though. It's the same in the US as well, Yale, Princeton, Harvard, former great colleges which promoted a vision based on enterprise and intelligence replaced by a bunch of hippies who get good results in tests.

Maybe for you,like I said,it doesn't on the place of upbringing. Some cultures emphasise this a lot more,so clearly we weren't brought up the same way

If they weren't genuine victims I don't think the universities would be genuinely concerned about creating safe spaces?

As Good bloke explained earlier, you're conflating two different things.

Anyway, I explained this to you before: they are simply capitulating to the stupid demands of students whose money they need to be able to do all the things that they want to do as institutions. I'd be seriously worried if leading universities were doing this out of a principled commitment to protecting their students from being exposed to ideas that they don't like.

(Bearing in mind now that this has almost nothing to do with 'cultural appropriation.' Safe spaces are a tangentially related issue, but are quite distinct from the grievances being discussed right now.)

And how do you define whether they are victims or not,you'll probably say no as you don't believe in cultural appropriation yourself,so it's just bias?

I don't remember examples cited.

What would be cultural appropriation is you disliking people from that part of the world and then passing off their cultural good as your own whilst still maintaining that you dislike said group of people

Nah,I'm a huge supporter of multiculturalism but I can see why cultural appropriation should not be seen in a positive manner.