Ohhh I see. I apologize if I offended anyone. I am definitely coming from the point of view that we are all on the same topic - that if someone gets a call from a deity and that deity in question belongs to a closed culture/religion. That's what I got out of the OP anyway.Xiao Rong wrote:where Manshin, you seem to be talking about closed cultures, and others are discussing much more hypothetically about "what if" one were to get a call from a different deity (despite the fact that most people here actually do draw inspiration from "open" practices, like Kemeticism, Wicca, Hellenic polytheism, Celtic mythology, etc. I have really rarely come across anyone here who IS trying to appropriate closed cultures)
Eh, some people DO get really crazy with it (see: SJW) but cultural appropriation is a very real, harmful thing. There are plenty of sociology studies in the academic field on cultural appropriation and how harmful it is.Chalice wrote:This appropriations stuff is a Tumblr hysterical campaign.
“Two ways in which cultural appropriation can be harmful are easily identified. The first sort of harm is violation of a property right … The second sort of harm is an attack on the viability or identity of the cultures or their members. Appropriation that undermines a culture in these ways would certainly cause devastating and clearly wrongful harm to members of the culture … Other acts of appropriation potentially leave members of a culture exposed to discrimination, poverty and lack of opportunity.” - from The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation (edited by Young and Brunk)
Also the whole "Oh noes, can't burn Sage... give me a break." is you missing the point to be quite honest. Indigenous people aren't saying don't burn any sage (although I did hear sage is going extinct, thanks New Age wave), they're saying don't sell bundled sage and call it "smudging sticks". It isn't smudging, for the reasons talked about in the original post.