When I wrote the title, I wanted to make sure that I understood how important cultural pluralist culture is.A cultural pluralistic culture means that each culture’s contribution to a given culture is equally valued.That’s not a zero-sum game.It’s about all of us being equal in that culture.When we have the same ideas and the same […]
Counter culture is a term coined in the late 1960s by the late British artist Terry Richardson to describe the appropriation of Western culture by other cultures.The term originated as a way of describing cultural practices such as cultural appropriation, where Western cultures are copied, appropriated, or altered.In the 1990s, a similar term became popularised […]
As much as we’d love to claim that American culture is being diluted, or that the cultural landscape is being re-imagined to make it conform to the new political and economic reality, our cultural institutions are more than just a few cultural icons that we can point to on the street.The United States is home […]
Tech giant Twitter has cancelled a popular cultural diversity map on its platform, citing the increased threat of terrorist attacks as a reason.The map, which was created in 2016 by researchers at the University of Washington and the University at Buffalo, showed a map of the world’s most diverse countries and regions.The goal was to […]
Indian women are “culturally and economically appropriating” “blue” clothing “for the purpose of sexual exploitation,” according to a new report.A study by the Center for Research on Women’s Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, published Monday, found that in some instances, Indian women have made “cultural appropriation” of “blue clothing” by “cultivating the […]
