January 26, 2022
2,498 words (~12 minutes)
Tags:
book or article review
philosophy
third-person
In his book The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity, philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah argues that “cultural appropriation” is based on a mistaken mental model of what “culture” denotes. This article reviews his argument, which has the premise that culture is shared practices and which observes that most of these shared practices have already spread across the world, that culture is not a birthright, and that there are other, better criticisms than “cultural appropriation.”
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