dragonofmordor asked: I've found your blog really helpful and eye opening. Thank you. I have a question. I'm wondering how you feel about dancing shows like So You Think You Can Dance. Sometimes they have styles like African jazz or Bollywood that are danced by dancers not from those cultures. However, the choreography and vision comes from someone who is from that culture. And I'm honestly not sure whether this would be an example of cultural appropriation or not.

I would consider it a form of appropriation since they’re outside the culture but taking things from the culture and using them to make themselves more wealthy, while the originators of those cultural artifacts aren’t privy to those benefits.

-Dion