Cultural Appropriation: What It Is, and What It Isn’t.
<p>It is not just any time you fuse different styles of art together from different origins. Fusion can be done respectfully and with understanding and humility. (I think about this a lot! Almost every form of art I practice is fusion.)</p>
<p>It can also be done in ways that make marginalized folks feel gross as they watch people from the dominant culture get accolades they themselves are denied. (See: White chefs gaining cachet in the food world for recreating so-called “ethnic” foods — often poorly — while Chinatowns get ostracized.)</p>
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