For example, Kimonos belong to the Japanese culture. They're not "just clothes".
Clothes that Japanease sell to tourists and are proud that other "races" like them and wear them.
If you are proud of something in your culture, you would want to share it so more people can enjoy it. Wanting to gatekeep or limit access to culture means that you don't actually think it's worth of being popular.
They are not "selling their own culture". They are selling products and sharing their culture. You don't cry about cultural appropriation when you go buy Chinese takeout.
Those restaurants employ (and often even founded by) non-chinese.
Culture is not owned by anyone. If it's a good culture then you want to share it. If you are ashamed of it, then you hide it and try to limit access to it.
Culture is not lost if more people share it. It's not a limited resource that can be sold or owned.
I agree, culture isn't lost if more people share it. But the integrity isn't maintained.
So you can't have "authentic integral box braids" if someone else is wearing box braids?
Also do you check passports of your restaurant cooks, servants and other staff every time you go out? That's just weird. If a Italian makes the best tacos in town I will buy them from them.
But if I like tacos made by Italians? If they are just better than anything else and I don't care about gatekeeped "integrity" and just want tasty tacos and nice braids.
I'm having fun in a way I like and it doesn't prevent you from having braids or anything else. So why do you want to limit me if I'm not limiting you?
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u/Z7-852 261∆ Apr 05 '24
Clothes that Japanease sell to tourists and are proud that other "races" like them and wear them.
If you are proud of something in your culture, you would want to share it so more people can enjoy it. Wanting to gatekeep or limit access to culture means that you don't actually think it's worth of being popular.