What is the fine line between cultural appropriation and appreciation?
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To try to maintain artificial lines between groups or protect one group’s rights over another to address or celebrate images and ideas of gender, race, and ethnicity often seems like a losing battle in this day and age. The lines themselves are dissolving completely — so say PR “experts.” Yet, these same experts tend to come from a similar upper-quintile demographic that views the bottom four-fifths of the economic spectrum with the same disregard as Eurocentric patriarchal cultures have traditionally viewed its colored subpopulations. In the end, how can “cultured,” i.e., non-white consumers, ever expect brands to respect their cultures when its employees nearly uniformly originate from not only the same racial demographic, but also the same top economic quantile?
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