We need to talk about your kitsch problem... - General Tiki

E EnchantedTikiGoth Member Calgary, Canada Joined: Dec 31, 2003 Posts: 355	E EnchantedTikiGoth Posted posted on Sat, Jul 1, 2017 8:18 PM On 2017-07-01 09:24, Piddersthecat wrote: 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. Well no, because Irish people are white, and white people are all the same and don't have a culture. Also, as a Canadian, you're not allowed to enjoy your own culture because of colonialism. At least, that's what all of social media has been telling me today. You're also not allowed to enjoy things from other cultures either, because that's bad for some reason. Basically, nobody is allowed to enjoy anything, and we should all be humourless, joyless, sanctimonious scolds.

On 2017-07-01 09:24, Piddersthecat wrote:
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.

Well no, because Irish people are white, and white people are all the same and don't have a culture. Also, as a Canadian, you're not allowed to enjoy your own culture because of colonialism. At least, that's what all of social media has been telling me today. You're also not allowed to enjoy things from other cultures either, because that's bad for some reason. Basically, nobody is allowed to enjoy anything, and we should all be humourless, joyless, sanctimonious scolds.

Post #777405 by EnchantedTikiGoth on Sat, Jul 1, 2017 8:18 PM