Are you one of the people who's wanting a DWth account and still waiting on a code? 'cause you know, I could supply. (I have codes, because I don't do the General Offer thing - I have a couple in hand, and I reserve them to offer to specific people.)
I have a sort of complicated reaction to the issues around non-black people and hiphop, because on the one hand, yes, cultural product, on the other hand, I'm very much in favour of cultural appreciation by and for everyone. I think there's an important distinction between appreciation and appropriation, and I think that, where due respect is paid (and due respect includes recognition for marginalised cultures, and efforts towards sociopolitical equality, etc), the world would be a better place if we appreciated everyone's cultural variations.
I would love to see Chinese New Year being celebrated as a Major Event in the same way the Gregorian New Year is. I want the Hindu festivals happening where everyone can see them. That kind of thing - I know Christianity isn't the world's only religion, but I don't want Christmas to stop being a widely-shared celebration, I just want everyone else's festivals recognised too. (Bonus positive: If there were more events and festivals throughout the year, we might be able to cut down on the duration of the Christmas season, which currently seems to start in October, and the degree of commercialisation, which is obscene. And Easter, which is, technically, the holiest event in my religion, could be left to its mix of solemnity and joy if everyone could just be celebrating Golden Week instead.)
So it's not like I want cultural prohibition on stuff - it's more that where hiphop has problems with glorifying violence and misogyny, which are things of which I disapprove sufficiently that I don't care if it's cultural, it's damaging - that's the aspect that "AZNs" embrace, in my experience.
To me, it seems like Asian people are all over the place, here, but I sometimes forget that that's not the case in all areas - it's just that I go to university, where there are a *lot* of Asians (we have a lot of international students from southeast Asia), and so it's just that *my* environment is so plentiful in people of other cultures, living in harmony because we're all students at a place that has an anti-racist campus culture and because being overtly racist is one of the few things that could get you permanently expelled from the university. (Mere course failure merely gets you excluded for a given number of years. My university is quite hard to get into, but once you're in, it's hard to get kicked out permanently.)
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I have a sort of complicated reaction to the issues around non-black people and hiphop, because on the one hand, yes, cultural product, on the other hand, I'm very much in favour of cultural appreciation by and for everyone. I think there's an important distinction between appreciation and appropriation, and I think that, where due respect is paid (and due respect includes recognition for marginalised cultures, and efforts towards sociopolitical equality, etc), the world would be a better place if we appreciated everyone's cultural variations.
I would love to see Chinese New Year being celebrated as a Major Event in the same way the Gregorian New Year is. I want the Hindu festivals happening where everyone can see them. That kind of thing - I know Christianity isn't the world's only religion, but I don't want Christmas to stop being a widely-shared celebration, I just want everyone else's festivals recognised too. (Bonus positive: If there were more events and festivals throughout the year, we might be able to cut down on the duration of the Christmas season, which currently seems to start in October, and the degree of commercialisation, which is obscene. And Easter, which is, technically, the holiest event in my religion, could be left to its mix of solemnity and joy if everyone could just be celebrating Golden Week instead.)
So it's not like I want cultural prohibition on stuff - it's more that where hiphop has problems with glorifying violence and misogyny, which are things of which I disapprove sufficiently that I don't care if it's cultural, it's damaging - that's the aspect that "AZNs" embrace, in my experience.
To me, it seems like Asian people are all over the place, here, but I sometimes forget that that's not the case in all areas - it's just that I go to university, where there are a *lot* of Asians (we have a lot of international students from southeast Asia), and so it's just that *my* environment is so plentiful in people of other cultures, living in harmony because we're all students at a place that has an anti-racist campus culture and because being overtly racist is one of the few things that could get you permanently expelled from the university. (Mere course failure merely gets you excluded for a given number of years. My university is quite hard to get into, but once you're in, it's hard to get kicked out permanently.)
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Saiyukiessay work. *sigh*