Very insightful post. I like how you put the issue of cultural appropriation in perspective and denounce its attending hypocrisy and absurdity, not mentioning the heartache it creates. We attack a schoolgirl for her Chinese prom dress while Rihanna makes a mockery of the papal tiara with her crotch almost showing. Cinco de Mayo is anathema while on St. Patrick's Day everybody's (still) Irish. We end up with two classes of societies: the endangered (usually "ethnic") species and the (usually) fair-skinned poachers. This distinction is complimentary for neither class. Neither is it in line with the way cultures develop. It breeds unrest and division where integration and mutual enrichment would (in most cases) eventually take place. Individual cultures have fuzzy edges, they cannot be boxed in. Indeed, the minute you try to define the elements of a particular culture exactly, you risk veering into stereotype and caricature. An intellectually sophisticated individual in an intellectually sophisticated society learns to juggle with and to tolerate the inner tension that comes with that dialectic. However, we are so dumbed down that we can only deal with stick-figure thinking and latch on to superficial and inconsequential PC bickering while our governments subsidize the killing of children in manufactured wars right in our faces.
This entire issue is so infuriating (and so unnecessary) that I was tempted to pull my hair out. Instead, I thought I'd be proactive and champion cultural re-appropriation to solve the problem once and for all. https://steemit.com/culture/@tmayd/cultural-reappropriation-from-outrage-culture-to-cultural-outage-a-satire