Is cultural appropriate really a thing?

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Tumblr SJW's are really far-right xenophobes in their own confused way given their opposition to culture mixing (and their very American/Eurocentric way of dividing people into "whites" and "POCs" and assuming history revolves solely around their relationship)

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Have I mentioned how idiotic (and America-centric--lumping all fair-skinned Europeans as one is pretty much limited to the USA/Canada/Argentina) the division of people into "white" and "person of color" is? Other than defining race relations by skin color it ignores the very different and complex race relations between different groups in America (suggesting that the Chinese immigrant and the descendant of Africans taken as slaves are one and the same is something mostly done by naive white liberals on the Internet) and assumes an inherent struggle akin to the division between the owning and working classes. I would also hesitate to label whites as the "dominant culture group", not only due to the geographically distinct cultures within the United States but the fact that ultimately, class is a far more reliable indicator of power than race (though the latter certainly has some say--see black incarceration rates for drug offenses despite using drugs at a lower rate than whites).

Now, some of my confusion may be that I see a lot of the nuttier SJW's who think that braiding one's hair is white supremacy, but obviously I can agree that some instances of what you would call cultural appropriation are unacceptable--that fraternity which had a "ghetto party" where kids brought fried chicken and liquor in plastic bags, or the Washington Redskins logo--that is, when the appropriation is used to mock another group of people based on their ethnicity.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

I would also hesitate to label whites as the "dominant culture group", not only due to the geographically distinct cultures within the United States but the fact that ultimately, class is a far more reliable indicator of power than race (though the latter certainly has some say--see black incarceration rates for drug offenses despite using drugs at a lower rate than whites).

There's a difference between saying "whites are the dominant culture group" and "all whites are in positions of power." And in the US at least, race and class are very interrelated:



Those are median numbers for household net worth among different racial groups in America (as of 2010). 

Household net worth (a lot of which comes from the pre-2007 culture that everyone needed a big generic exurban house) is not the best indicator of actual wealth. The most important factor is that the overwhelming majority of people are not receiving the full value of their labor, while the minute ruling class, while a good bit whiter than the general population, are certainly not uniformly so.