I'm sick of hearing the term "cultural appropriation". It's everywhere, and it really needs to stop. Most of it is just mindless complaining from SJWs. I once heard that some university in Canada had to cancel a yoga class because students complained about it being offensive. (I also noted that the SJW media only has a problem with "cultural appropriation" when white people do it. I see black rappers do similar stuff in their videos and no one complains about them for it.) But seriously, if we keep finding everything offensive, then we can't freely express ourselves.
My friend Ashley, who is white, went to India last year and he bought a salwar kameez for himself. (His brother did too.) None of the locals complained about him wearing it. He said it was only when he went back to Australia that people complained about him wearing it, and none of the people who complained were even Indian.
The whole concept of "cultural appropriation" can easily be abused. I mean, take my friend Ashley. Ashley is an English surname, but my friend doesn't have a single drop of English blood (he's half Italian, half Polish), and no one in his family has Ashley as a surname. (Sometimes, I see people on name websites telling people that they shouldn't use surnames as first names if they're not in their family.) So I guess, by that logic, Ashley's parents must be guilty of "cultural appropriation". Or you could easily say that people in India shouldn't speak English because English is not native to India. (Most Indians will defend the use of English since India has a large amount of languages. I mean, the north of India mostly speaks Indo-European languages while the south speaks Dravidian languages. Years ago, India tried using Hindi as a national language since it was the native language with the most speakers, but the southern Indian states objected. English was an obvious solution since it doesn't favour one native language over another.)
