Can You Appropriate Your Own Culture?

In this episode we discuss our thoughts on the question "can you appropriate your own culture?"

Can you appropriate your own culture? We start this month’s new Toolkit with a seriously loaded question. Join us this June as we go “back to basics” as we discuss the mixed identity through the lens of appearance.  Over the next few weeks we’ll dive into how our appearance affects not only how we are treated but how we racially and culturally identity ourselves and the struggles that may entail. In this episode you’ll hear us converse about:

• June’s Toolkit 
• What do we mean by appropriating your own culture?
• How closely this is related to imposter syndrome (Ep.46 on Imposter Syndrome linked down below)
• What is colonialism's role in this question?
• The exhaustion of being mixed race and “straddling two or more cultures”.
• How much your physical appearance impacts your racial identity. 
• What does this mean for people who are NOT mixed with white?
• What about BIPOC who have grown up away from your homeland and/or culture?
• Dani shares a story of ethnic fraud (article linked down below).
• The fear of being accused of appropriating as a mixed BIPOC.
• We discuss the article: When Half is Whole: Learning from the Stories of Multiethnic Asian American Identities by Stephen Murphy-Sigematsu (article linked down below)

We end in our favorite segment of the show, our Happy Place! Hint prepare for fashion al fresco! 

Articles and Episode mentioned in the show:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/magazine/cherokee-native-american-andrea-smith.html

https://www.academia.edu/11217263/When_Half_is_Whole_Learning_from_the_Stories_of_Multiethnic_Asian_American_Identities

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Og6rS74JLZ8hkm3j6EEAE

You can check out our past episode on appropriation versus appreciation at https://pnc.st/s/biracialunicorns/031f1c9a0cc84ffb/appropriation-vs-appreciation

Check out Gina Mei's story on Latino USA at https://www.latinousa.org/2017/10/27/youre-accused-appropriating-culture/

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