fuck yeah cultural appropriation

month

June 2011

52 posts

Anonymous asked: Ever heard of The Indians, an Irish band? It just may be the official band of FYCA!

Anonymous asked: I think you have a wonderful idea for a blog. However, going through your posts is like scraping nails on a chalkboard. You act like a jackass. The juvenile and sarcastic writing is funny every now and then, but not on every single post.

Also, when people seem to genuinely ask questions trying to understand cultural appropriation, you blow them off. This is not how you run a public...

Anonymous asked: I'd like to submit a really shockingly racist halloween costume that was tolerated at my hs but the terms scare me ...

Anonymous asked: new favorite fucking blog right here...thanks for summing up so perfectly my feelings towards people who do this. It is upsettingly prevalent on the spiritual type blogs here on tumblr. I am so sick of people fetishizing my "gypsy" and "indian" roots.

Anonymous asked: The history of white people is us conquering each other. It's NORMAL.
I mean we're usually really good at this. Sure the last couple centuries has been kind of embarrassing *blush*
But GOD! What is it with you brown people? Why can't you just shut up and be conquered already!
Is it so hard?!
I mean sheesh! Annoying!

-Whitey

Anonymous asked: does it count as cultural appropriation, how white hipsters have taken the ukulele?

the-womanifesto-deactivated2012 asked: I know you get annoyed when people ask "is this cultural appropriation" questions so sorry but I'm just curious and I don't think I've seen this one on here anywhere...
I just heard a new one the other day. Someone complained about the fashion industry appropriating punk culture. Now, I never think about those types of movements or sub-cultures as the same type of...

saschaeatsteeth-deactivated2012 asked: you can find plenty of unfortunate fodder here
http://tribaltribute.tumblr.com/
"tribal" (what tribe?) "tribute" (LOL ;_;)

Anonymous asked: http://badfishandcigarettes.tumblr.com/post/6465135979

Please do what you do best.

saynathespiffy-deactivated20120 asked: http://fuckyeahculturalappropriation.tumblr.com/post/5874609658/im-white-and-working-on-the-whole

It sounds like this person had legitimate questions and you totally just blew them off. I understand that this is mostly a blog for people who already "get it" and want to vent, but it seems like this person is actually trying to understand you and you're mocking them.

soofriends asked: Loving your answers! I just wanted to say that when I'm asked questions like that about cultural appropriation, I tell people that adaptation isn't appropriation. For example, canoes; generally a white person using a canoe isn't "playing Indian", they just find that it's one of the best ways to navigate rivers and streams, this is adaptation. Also western societies...

Anonymous asked: Wouldn't the name "fuckOFFculturalappropriation" better suit the purposes of this blog than "fuckYEAHculturalappropriation"? It's a little confusing the way it is now.

i-thaphithin asked: "I guess I have some Native American [in me] somewhere down the line. My great-grandmother was quite a bit of Native American, she grew up Cherokee or maybe Creek Indian. Makes sense in terms of coming from Kentucky, which is rife with Cherokee and Creek." - Johnny Depp

... I call bullshit.

flickr fuck yeahs

Is it weird to link to a photostream? http://www.flickr.com/photos/guinnevere/with/4221140554/ - WHAT

so we hear that johnny’s actually cherokee? does anyone know anything about this?

Anonymous asked: can we please stop this train wreck before he actually dresses up as "native chief" for halloween?
http://elliottsaray.tumblr.com/post/4469107248/feathers-are-neat-think-im-going-to-be-a-native

Anonymous asked: Would you say that our military has appropriated Slavic culture? I've seen soldiers issued a more 'Americanized' Ushanka, something similar to Valenki, and what looks like a more modern derivation of an Afghanka.

And would you say appropriation is something similar to racism [power and privilege] or would you say that it can happen to any ethnic group? Why is the...

Anonymous asked: warpaint has been used by people from pretty much every roundy area of the earth so i mean that's not cultural appropriation so much as people condoning warlike behavior and stupid makeup. the saxons, the normans, romans, indians, chinese, japanese, etc.
also, mohawks aren't just a native american thing. they predate native american culture by like eight or nine centuries, and...

Anonymous asked: id like to apologize on behalf of white people for COMPLETELY OWNING THE SHIT out of indians with our fucking awesome guns technology and plain old white ingenuity. it sure is a shame that we manage to do so much more with indian art and culture than you all ever could.

Anonymous asked: so i'm totally secular and not religious and not buddhist, but i have some buddhist art up in my apartment. an indian friend (who is also not actually buddhist) saw it and told me i was being offensive and appropriating her culture. here's the thing though... i'm chinese. i know buddhism originated in india and all, but buddhism is also a big part of chinese culture (even though i...

commanderbishoujo asked: re: Kiesha Crowther, she is a New Age fraudster with a well-known and troubling history of playing native for profit, mainly she claims to be "the shaman of the Sioux and Salish tribe" (lol). Peeps have been exposing her antics for a while now. Here is a funny/enraging take on her and a good intro to her BS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYy0xVdPU6Q

Also, "Little...

dammitcaleb-deactivated20130328 asked: I don't know you, but I love you. Seriously. All of you (since I think there's more than one person handling this blog).

Also, I REALLY loved your response the other day to the Hawai'ian person asking about figuring out whether dreadlocks were culturally relevant & accurate for them, so I made it a rebloggable post here:...

deprenyl-deactivated20110904 asked: searched for 'little' in your archive and didn't find anything linked to 'little grandmother', so I assume this ..hmm.. thing has not been covered yet:

http://youtu.be/qyolOPbu_go

Kiesha Crowther "Little Grandmother" has some traction on Youtube, but the first video that pops up in searches is the above, there's that at least.

tastymoonpie asked: Pretty convenient that everyone who was "indigenous in a past life" seems to have missed out on the whole genocide thing/socioeconomic disenfranchisement in this life

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so i followed the link that Anon: Choctaw/Chaktow poster was talking about, and that tumblr seemed pretty badass and written by someone who’s comfortable with who she is and knowledgeable about her multiracial/many-cultured family history. seems like the person trolling around on her site trying to police her identity with their views about Using Correct English has their own race issues to...

sacredorscared-deactivated20111 asked: Are stretching one's ears an example of cultural appropriation?

Anonymous asked: I had a legit question that was not answered (about the essentialist implications of arguing against cultural appropriation). Like, the fuck?

commanderbishoujo asked: I love that "inspires" shit, lmao. I guess those guys who broke into my house and stole my stereo were just looking for "inspiration"

Anonymous asked: Anon: Are you aware that the correct spelling of the tribe is CHOCTAW not Chaktow. Not to be mean, but to educate :o/

ANSWER: I kno But I Like Chaktow better :)

Wow....how embarrassing. The comforting thing is that shes probably not really Indian to begin with. She spelled Cherokee wrong too.....

the author of the embarrassing response:...

Anonymous asked: Whats your stance on people other than Indians wearing bindis?

Anonymous asked: Question re: sugar skulls.
I grew up in California as one of the few gringos in my class. The cultures of my 'ancestors' (who were British and Russian) did not make sugar skulls. However, everyone around me was from a culture that made sugar skulls and was awesome. Consequently, our local culture - as in the traditions and practices we had as a community - made sugar skulls,...

Anonymous asked: Sorry, but feathers belong to BIRDS, not to any human culture. Certain USES of feathers might belong to Native Americans, while many other uses belong to other cultures. However, animals are not Native people's to exploit ANY MORE than they are white people's to exploit, whether the reasons are for fashion or spirituality.

Anonymous asked: I'd just like to ask a question, with regards to your post on the sexualisation of Native American women, in which you said that no white person should ever be allowed to touch a feather. I completely understand, but I am white and have been brought up following pagan religion and wearing feathers as charms has always been a big part of this. As this has always been part of pagan culture,...

Anonymous asked: I've been looking ALL over the web for info on this and couldn't find more than one or two viewpoints, so I figured I would come here to get all of y'all's opinions. Is it considered cultural appropriation when white people where mohawk hairstyles?

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Anonymous asked: wearing moccasins but not being a major part of the Native American culture -- okay or bad?