Culture is The outlook, attitudes, values, morals goals, and behaviours shared by a society. It influences their views, their values, their humour, their hopes, their loyalties, and their worries and fears. So when you are working with people and building relationships with them, it helps to have some perspective and understanding of their cultures
According to the Cambridge dictionary, Cultural appropriation is “the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, especially without showing that you understand or respect this culture,”
Some people said that that culture only belongs to a certain type of people and it does not belongs and open to everyone. However, personally, I strongly believe that no-one owns the culture. We use other culture not because we want to make fun of it but we think that it’s beautiful and exotic and that is where we want to show our appreciation of other cultures.
For example, Katy Perry has had her fair share of experience with cultural appropriation, starting in 2013. At the American Music Awards, in a performance for her single, “Unconditionally” Perry dressed up as a geisha, appropriating Japanese culture in the process.
“I won’t ever understand some of those things because of who I am,” she said. “I will never understand, but I can educate myself, and that’s what I’m trying to do along the way…I didn’t know that I did it wrong until I heard people saying I did it wrong.
So overall I don’t think cultural appropriation is a problem in many countries. Trying different cultures helps us understand where we come from, how we may improve our lives and how to better understand each other and improve our behavioural connections with others. But it does not mean that when you use other cultures you can do whatever you want to do with it, instead, you have to use it with so much respect.
