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Cultural Appropriation

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Can You Be Harmed by Locking Prestige?

David Frum: One way of thinking about cultural appropriation is that it is harmful. He says the history of rock and roll, for instance, shows how this can be done to a person's prestige or economic benefit. But he argues there are also good grounds against people like Miley Cyrus appropriating black culture in recent years.Frum: We should look at what philosophers C. T. Nguyen and Matthew Stroll offer as an alternative perspective onappropriation.

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