@YARNLADY You may not remember this, but one night many years ago on this site you and I discovered we shared a tribal ancestry, although yours is more recent. I agree with you 100% on this. I have no problem with children on Holloween or adults at a costume party, or even disrespectful fratboys wearing a cartoon semblance of Native American dress. I don’t even mind all the bullshit on St.. Patricks Day, nor am I offended by all the priests and nuns out there on Halloween night as a great portion of my ancestry had been either English, or Irish, or German Catholics for hundreds of years, many taking refuge in this country.
However, what I find even more of an abomination is bullshit about Cultural Appropriation. Without it, none of the earth’s civilizations would have grown and developed, adding idea to idea. The ones that have refused to appropriate their way into the 21st century are either gone, or in big trouble.
I cite many of the people of the Middle East that today find themselves locked into the medieval period in their laws and beliefs, locked precisely in that time when those under the Islamic Caliphate—one of the most advanced cultures in the world at the time—decided that all doors to the West would be closed as they were infidels to their one, true prophet. By doing this, they missed the second age of enlightenment, the industrial revolution, the development of the middle class and the evolution of the democratic institutions that came from that. And now we stand on opposite sides of a dangerous precipice in a nuclear world. No. This anti-cultural appropriation is bullshit and, now as it was then, based on arrogance and stupidity.