<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">This would explain why society is exploring the puzzling new sin of "cultural appropriation."</span><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br>spike</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font color="#888888" style="" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">People are scared of being overwhelmed by other cultures - the result of widespread immigration, worldwide communication, worldwide travel and so on. They want to retain their cultural identity,like the problem the French have with Muslims - Muslims will never be 'French'. They will hold to their own culture wherever they are. Other groups are like this too.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font color="#888888" style="" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font color="#888888" style="" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Thus people who identify with a different culture (race?) are horning in something they are not entitled to, whether as a matter of skin color, country of origin, or something else. Stick with your group, your customs, your music, your art and so on and don't steal ours. Now why a group would not be proud that someone from another culture loved theirs is another question.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font color="#888888" style="" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font color="#888888" style="" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">The Asians are taking over classical music, most of which is European. Some don't like this at all, and some are glad that someone is keeping it alive.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font color="#888888" style="" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font color="#888888" style="" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">The whole concept of appropriation was created by the East Coast liberals, I think. Stupid, if you ask me - or if you don't.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font color="#888888" style="" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font color="#888888" style="" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">bill w</font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 8:16 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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From: extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> On Behalf Of SR Ballard via extropy-chat<br>
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Subject: Re: [ExI] it's your choice<br>
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>Only if you completely ignore the definition of the word.<br>
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>”A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social<br>
qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society."<br>
(Wikipedia)<br>
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You literally just ruined your own argument. <br>
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A race is ... shared social qualities. <br>
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That means literally nothing genetically. <br>
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By this definition of race it’s just a type of grouping with no objective genetic basis.<br>
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> On Apr 3, 2020, at 9:58 PM, Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Only if you completely ignore the definition of the word.<br>
> <br>
> "A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social <br>
> qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society."<br>
> (Wikipedia)<br>
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The above comment suddenly makes sense of a puzzling observation.<br>
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We can't change our DNA (yet) but we can choose what culture we embrace. Certainly we can convert to any religion we want, ja? We can even become one of the DNA-related religions, such as ultra-orthodox Jew, if we work at it a bit and have enough money.<br>
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If race is a shared culture and shared social qualities, and if we wish to embrace the notion that race is not a choice, then we are not completely free to embrace a culture into which we weren't born. <br>
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This would explain why society is exploring the puzzling new sin of "cultural appropriation."<br>
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Thanks SR!<br>
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spike<br>
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