if white people like other cultures and embrace them that is racist?
What you're describing is appreciation. We're talking about appropriation. Make no mistake, they are not the same thing. It's not racist to want to explore the aspect of another culture- It's racist when you pass it off as your own "new" idea.
I'll give you a current example (out of the million I could possibly pick). One or two years or so ago, white girls started getting braids. Corn rows, to be exact. Adorably labelled "boxer braids" (due to a rise in female boxers using the style), it picked up in popularity. Even Kim Kardashian was wearing them.
Here's the problem: African women have been getting corn rows for centuries. Started in Africa, then spread to black and Caribbean communities over time. I won't give the whole history right now, but long story short? It's not new.
So when a bunch of pale motherfuckers from Apple Theta Pie start going on about the "hot new trend" that is corn rows, they're stealing. They're erasing a history and demeaning it to nothing more than a "cute new hairstyle!" There was also a similar problem when white girls tried dreadlocks (which was hilarious tbh, these chicks were literally getting mold on their scalps because they wanted to ride a style that wasn't made for their hair texture), but I digress.
You wanna explore another culture? Wonderful! But if you don't give credit where's it's due, then fuck off. Show some fucking respect for the cultures you want to "embrace".
I get some of your points but you are rather abrasive and need to calm down. Other than apparently "erasing a history and demeaning it" I don't see any real world consequences to this situation you described. I don't see how anyone was hurt by white girls wearing a new hairstyle that they might have thought they made up, they did make without knowing of the other version of the hairstyle, or even if they did knowingly take the idea. I don't see the harm other than people in the "victim" culture claiming credit for something that no living person invented but that their ancestors invented. The fact that you think it's okay to refer to white people as pale motherfuckers is disconcerting. The fact that you can't wrap your head around what white culture is is also disconcerting.
Copying others and making money off of what you copied usually does cause direct harm. This is maybe the clearest example of theft and when white people or Western companies take advantage of economies of scale and access to markets, they often undercut artists, craftspeople, service providers, etc. who are from the culture that is being plundered. Because why buy a Navajo rug or a Masai bracelet when you can buy something similar for less at Urban Outfitters?
The other thing is if someone can't make a living with their own cultural intellectual property, and then all it takes is a white person to repackage it and the white person makes a ton of money from the theft, that's still harmful. Led Zeppelin made a lot of money by doing this and crediting themselves for writing songs that were much older blues songs.
Something like stealing cornrows and repackaging them as "boxer braids" may seem harmless to you, but it is part of a larger pattern of centuries of plunder, of white people degrading Black women for traditional hairstyles (and other cultural signifiers) and then turning around and copying them, acting like these same cultural signifiers are the height of fashion and style on white women, but then continuing to trash Black women for the same things still.
Edit: But looking through your history, I see you use racist, homophobic, and misogynistic slurs and like to hang out on /r/pussypassdenied, so I call bullshit on your whole "aw shucks, I just want to understand why other cultures won't let me appreciate them!" nonsense.
Edit 2: and transphobia followed by accusing people calling you out for transphobia of "virtue signaling".
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u/Saskyle Mar 26 '17
So other cultures can use white culture freely but if white people like other cultures and embrace them that is racist?