View source for P-Prompt: Real life examples

This prompt was prepared by '''[[Biographies#C. Thi Nguyen|C. Thi Nguyen]]''', a philosophy professor at University of Utah. We contacted him right after reading “Cultural Appropriation and the Intimacy of Groups”, a text that Andrea Francke (who proposed Prompt: Intimacy and property) suggested us to read. In this text, which he wrote together with Matthew Strohl, C. Thi Nguyen explains the dead ends that both "universal entitlement" and "universal restrictiveness" represent when it comes to dealing with cultural appropriation.

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In thinking about cultural appropriation, what I came to think was that it was bad that one of the key problems was thinking in blanket terms: that cultural appropriation was always problematic or always OK. Instead what Matt Strohl and I came to think was that some practices had particularly powerful meanings to particular groups. They were intimate practices, practices of group solidarity, that expressed something important about belonging to a group identity. Furthermore, it mattered what a particular group licenses about a particular practice. Some groups are eager to have particular practices disseminated, other groups might want particular practices held private, sacred, or special. And it matters the social power of the group, since we have reason to particularly help to protect the cultural identity of threatened groups. (More [https://philpapers.org/archive/NGUCAA.pdf here].)
 
You don’t have to think this way, and I don’t expect you to agree with us necessarily. But if you want to try, I invite you to try to approach some difficult cases thinking about respecting the wishes of the relevant group. Because in real-world cases, this turns out to be very difficult: because of the complex cascades of overlapping groups and overlapping practices. I find some of these less puzzling, and some of these more puzzling.

I apologize for the American focus of the examples, but I have tried to draw and adapt from real life examples that I know well – because the details are important.

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{{:Reuse_Case:_Kimono_runway}}

{{:Reuse_Case:_Wearing_au_dai}}

{{:Reuse_Case:_Whose_authority}}

{{:Reuse_Case:_Shallow_appropriation}}

{{:Reuse_Case:_Balancing_concerns}}

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