Perhaps, sometimes, it means not taking it. Maybe it means standing up for the right for the styles to be permitted at the places you work. If you are wearing African hairstyles, for instance, and society is praising you for your "exotic" look while that same society has regulated that the same culturally relevant "look" is banned in the workplace for the people it came from, then you might want to be respectful of that.Īnd what does that mean, to be respectful of that? Maybe it means educating yourself and others about the cultural significance of the ideas you are taking. It's not about the idea that you wouldn't copy or share ideas from other cultures the idea is to be respectful when doing so. They hold no meaning, and no purpose that is separate from everything else.Ĭopy is just renaming the concept of taking in the instances where cultural appropriation is considered. They are in the Buddhist construct, empty. Further still they are simply an arrangement of color in a form meant to communicate the nature of the Tao. The Yin and Yang are not owned by anyone. In this specific case, in this temporal construct. Roughly all that is true is that all is the Tao, however that is incomplete, as the Tao is also that which is not.
So I will not contend.Ĭultural appropriation in and of itself is an idea, largely a western, largely a western liberal idea. The idea of owning ideas, styles and items is an illusion, as it is predicated on an idea of separateness. So outside of what must be done to live simply, I will not contend.
Further still, in the valley of whatever power is, or is not. The Tao which is the indescribable Tao is in everything, in the seen and unseen, in power, and the lack of power. This is a lot to unpack with the Tao but I'll go for it.
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