Cultural Appropriation: What It Is, and What It Isn???t.

It is not just any time you fuse different styles of art together from different origins. Fusion can be done respectfully and with understanding and humility. (I think about this a lot! Almost every form of art I practice is fusion.)

It can also be done in ways that make marginalized folks feel gross as they watch people from the dominant culture get accolades they themselves are denied. (See: White chefs gaining cachet in the food world for recreating so-called “ethnic” foods — often poorly — while Chinatowns get ostracized.)

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