Post #777394 by Piddersthecat on Sat, Jul 1, 2017 9:24 AM

The moral of the story seems to be that I can't like something because I'm white and wasn't born there...

To follow that logic, I'd like to take back St Patrick's Day celebrations, Guinness, the appreciation of scotch, Christmas, kilts, Newfie jokes, Screech, anything culturally significant from England (oh wait that's how all this started), and a deep love of potatoes. Because all of those things are part of my cultural heritage. Shoot I was pretty proud that Newfie screech made it into Smugglers Cove, but I guess they need to remove it and reprint to book...

We bastardize our own culture to change with the times and we steal from ourselves because we appreciate and/or enjoy something and we freely share all of those things with other cultures. I think part of living in a global multicultural society is appreciating other cultures....what is so wrong with that? Is it just because I'm white? That's pretty sad.

Of course, I'm not emulating Polynesian culture, I'm celebrating the idealized version of it as thought up by people who probably never saw it...