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tetrachromate · 11 months ago

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"why do white people dig into their ancestry for a smidgen of culture" because they think they're not allowed to meaningfully associate with anything outside their own immediate cultural context. Even *universalist* traditions like, idk, buddhism, are tainted by the perception of cultural appropriation because their most recent adherents tend to come from the sinosphere or SE asia

#with buddhism its doubly ironic #because some of the earliest converts were greeks #who they're totally happy to associate with as western/northern europeans #at least *classical* greeks #East asian buddhism was appropriated. i mean transmitted. from central asian sources who in turn received it from northern india #though of course in those days india didnt even exist. so they received it from Gandhara as did the Greeks #I get that white adoption of subaltern cultural elements is fraught #but if you dont want a culture exclusively derived from whitebread protestantism and odinist larping #you will need to be somewhat more nuanced in how you talk about it

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