"Cultural appropriation"- why wearing sombreros wrong if not Mexican

The Guardian does not approve of cultural appropriation. People can only write literature if they have direct experience .

So someone who is not a whale should not have written Mobey Dick...

and Lionel Shriver should not have written the book We Need To Talk About Kevin because she's never mothered a mass highschool shooter?

Where does this nonsense end? A Muslim woman on channel 4 last night was speaking in favour of the Sharia court system here in the UK. She was not only wearing a big loud poppy headscarf but was also wearing a poppy .

What part of cultural appropriation does she not understand?

The Guardian does not approve of cultural appropriation. People can only write literature if they have direct experience .

 

So someone who is not a whale should not have written Mobey Dick...

 

and Lionel Shriver should not have written the book We Need To Talk About Kevin because she's never mothered a mass highschool shooter?

 

Where does this nonsense end? A Muslim woman on channel 4 last night was speaking in favour of the Sharia court system here in the UK. She was not only wearing a big loud poppy headscarf but was also wearing a poppy .

 

What part of cultural appropriation does she not understand?

The bit where her relatives fought as part of the British Empire troops in WW1 and/or WW2? Or perhaps she has a relative who is a current member of our armed forces.

Perhaps you should stop trying to politicise poppy wearing.

The Guardian does not approve of cultural appropriation. People can only write literature if they have direct experience .

 

So someone who is not a whale should not have written Mobey Dick..

You do realise that Melville's 'Moby-Dick' was written from a whaler's perspective, and not from a whale's, don't you? Yes, of course you do.

You do realise that Melville's 'Moby-Dick' was written from a whaler's perspective, and not from a whale's, don't you? Yes, of course you do.

Oh, what is an "r" between friends, eh:D

Cultural appropriation like racism is a one way street.

Maybe people shouldn't title threads about sombreros if they're not about sombreros

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Where does this nonsense end?

Surely that is up to you.

The real question,OP, is why do you take anything written in the Grauniad seriously? Or indeed anyone who reads it?

....Mobey Dick...

It's spelt Moby which just sums up your ignorance and stupidity. You did manage to spell Dick right however, perhaps because it's your middle name.

The Guardian's cultural appropriation fetish is daft. Maybe they supported apartheid all along; whites had the vote and blacks didn't, so giving blacks the vote would be cultural appropriation?

The Guardian does not approve of cultural appropriation. People can only write literature if they have direct experience .

 

So someone who is not a whale should not have written Mobey Dick...

 

and Lionel Shriver should not have written the book We Need To Talk About Kevin because she's never mothered a mass highschool shooter?

 

Where does this nonsense end? A Muslim woman on channel 4 last night was speaking in favour of the Sharia court system here in the UK. She was not only wearing a big loud poppy headscarf but was also wearing a poppy .

 

What part of cultural appropriation does she not understand?

My biggest concern is why would anyone waste valuable time reading that left wing rag ?

To be fair , I read the on-line Guardian with a peg on my nose and feel the need to go and have a shower after reading some of the articles . Know the enemy and all that!