Producing : Cultural Appropriation by Joe Orlandino

Isn't everything an actor does sort of a cultural appropriation? I mean, they're always pretending to be someone else

"Culture" is simply a set of ideas and therefore Cultural appropriation is not a real thing. It is a whacky concept pushed by people who love to keep society divided against itself. It's an academic political concept used by people who specifically want to control a group they ostensibly belong to , in an effort to make people in that group feel bad that others find their ideas valuable. That's it. I am Romanian, which is to say, culturally Roman (that's a simplification of course). If cultural appropriate were a thing, I should be offended and claim injury at everyone's use of the alphabet itself, the Julian Calendar, the basis of much of the globe's legal systems, and in fact much of the language we speak and political concepts we practice - on and on and on. But it's not a thing, it's just a a whacky concept.

Nikolas John and Shadow, yes, agreed...it's called playing a role. We either embrace it or eschew it completely.