I'll just leave KatsuroRicksand's comment here:
KatsuroRicksand wrote:I agree that cultural appropriation is a huge problem. Therefore, I made this list of ways to stop it! I got all the stuff on it from Tumblr. (Sure, I could have read an actual book, but reading books is, like, such a pain, you know? Like, who's got the time for that? Books are, like, hard and stuff.)
1. Don't wear foreign culture's everyday clothes, like a sari, as your everyday clothes. It's very disrespectful to treat everyday clothes as if they were everyday clothes!
2. Don't, like, eat foreign food; that's cultural appropriation. So for instance, sushi restaurants and pizza parlours shouldn't have any black customers.
3. Don't use traditional Chinese medicine unless you are ethnically Chinese. Otherwise you're stealing Chinese culture. So obviously, black people who need such medicine to cure an illness should just lay down and die, and traditional Chinese doctors shouldn't cure blacks. That's cultural appropriation.
4. The idea that it's wrong to draw pictures of the prophet Mohammed is, like, a Muslim tradition. If you follow it without being a Muslim, you're stealing the lovely traditions of Islam. So all you non-Muslims: Make sure to respect the heritage of Muslims by drawing the prophet Mohammed, so that the Muslims get to keep their tradition of not drawing him!
5. If you're white or black and decide to become a Buddhist, you're, like, appropriating Eastern culture!!!! So don't do that!!! I know the Buddha never said only Asians should reach enlightenment but I'm sure he meant to!
VI. Don't appropriate the rich cultural heritage of the Arab world by using Arabic numerals. Stick to the Roman ones that are a part of your heritage. Obviously, people of African descent shouldn't use either Roman or Arabic numerals. So all my black friends mustn't use the number keys on their keyboards!
VII. The Sumerians invented writing, so nobody but their descendants should write. Writing is cultural appropriatio- Oh dang.]