Jan 072020
For sane people, “cultural appropriation” is a good thing, as it spreads what’s good around while depriving nobody of anything. Still, sometimes cultural appropriation in action just looks kinda hard to wrap your mind around. Take, for example, this:
Where we have a group (Ningen Isu) of old-ish Japanese fellers in traditional Japanese garb rockin’ out to some pretty good headbanging metal. Inspired by the likes of Black Sabbath, they sing not just in Japanese, but *old* Japanese, and use not only traditional Japanese folk tales for inspiration but also Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft.
Wrong, yet so very, very awesome. It (like “The HU“) shouldn’t work, yet it does.