Well, if you think that it's a trope, you could always make a YKTTW. Nothing's stopping you!
There's a trope for it now.
I made this Idolized Julius Kingsley icon back when Akito first came out, and now that the crossover is actually happening, I don't care.
Quote: "cultural appropriation [...] is when a member of one culture takes on some of the trappings of another culture".
In my opinion and according to the linked Wikipedia article, cultural exhchange only becomes appropriation when the dominant culture within a country borrows elements from lower-status cultures. When a Western person wears a sari or kimono, that's not cultural appropriation anymore than a Japanese sarariman wearing a suit and a tie.
Which means the case mentioned further down the article:
"If the Cultural Appropriation is from a less-powerful culture to a more-powerful one [...]"
is, in fact, the only form of cultural exchange that qualifies as cultural appropriation. (And even that is not necessarily a problem unless culture A exploits or mocks culture B, or disrespects B by wearing symbols of social rank and status that have to be earned).
Is this just for real cultures, or for black culture in particular? I saw it on a works page about a human who was interested in the culture of the story's mermaids... is that wrong?
I made this Idolized Julius Kingsley icon back when Akito first came out, and now that the crossover is actually happening, I don't care.
Complete Arse(nal)
The link to Foreign Culture Fetish creates a Morton's Fork; If you do find a foreign culture to be interesting you're a fetishist, but if you don't you an ethnocentrist or a xenophobe.
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This is a trope, but its converse is not, because the converse is not a trope? Arguably false. Perhaps because most tropers are white, and either afraid of themselves falling into this trope, or because they don't have N-Word Privileges, or else think it's too taboo to point out the phenomenon of the "oreo" as a trope, that trope is not documented herein.
Well, it's a trope, whether it's melaninically taboo or not.
Why is "white guy trying to be "black"/urban" an acceptable trope to acknowledge, but "black guy trying to be "white"/sophisticated" is not?
For example, here are some undeniably deliberate cases of black characters in movies whose perceived lack of "blackness" is exploited for comedic value and/or contrast with "blacker" characters:
- Pierre Delacroix in Bamboozled
- Waymon in Strictly Business
- Tom Dilton in Mo Money
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