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____deleted____ wrote

I think all cultures should borrow from others; and that is exactly what all cultures do when given chance to intermingle. Food from the Netherlands commonly finds itself in the states, and food from Turkey and Greece overlap quite a bit. Simply don't claim it as your culture; as with taking open source software, you simply give credit and stop if requested to stop.

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kittybecca wrote

There's a huge difference between intermingling (participating in a culture) vs. appropriating it. Intermingling involves members of both cultures exchanging things with one another. Appropriating is purely about taking, generally in the absence of members of the appropriated culture for unacknowledged and unexamined reasons.

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