2.16: How to Avoid Cultural Appropriation

First Name Basis Podcast

Jasmine Bradshaw

How To, Parenting, Education, Kids & Family

5 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Celebrating the people around us and their unique cultures can be exciting and incredibly enriching! But where is that fine line between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation? When we take elements of someone else's culture without permission or compensation we can unintentionally cause a great deal of harm. In this episode we discuss four steps you can take to ensure that you are appreciating culture instead of appropriating it.

Consider the power dynamics at play
Remember that your impact is greater than your intent
Be sure that any money you spend is going directly into the pockets of people who are from the culture you are celebrating
Ask yourself: Do I understand the significance of this cultural artifact/food/art?

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0:00.0	You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 2, Episode 16, How to Avoid Cultural Appropriation.
0:14.3	Welcome to First Name Basis, a community of parents committed to making the transformation, from good intentions to confident action.
0:22.9	Join us each week as we cover critical topics and answer the questions you've never felt comfortable asking.
0:28.6	We'll use the lessons we learned to teach our children about race, religion, and culture.
0:33.5	I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw.
0:48.3	Thank you. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw. Before we jump into this episode, I wanted to give you a little heads up.
0:52.6	So I released this episode a while back and I got a message
0:56.7	on Instagram from one of the listeners who pointed out a mistake that I made within the episode.
1:01.8	So I'm coming back to correct that mistake. So as you are listening, you might hear me pop in
1:07.2	once or twice to help you understand where that mistake was and what I am doing to correct
1:13.5	it. All right, I hope you enjoy. Hello, first name basis fam. I am so glad you are here. This
1:22.5	week we have a really interesting and kind of tricky topic to cover. We're going to be talking about cultural
1:29.7	appropriation. I've heard from a lot of you that you are super excited to learn about and engage with
1:37.9	different cultures and people from different cultures and food from different cultures,
1:42.7	and all of that is amazing.
1:45.5	But we want to make sure that when we are doing that, we're doing so in a way that is respectful
1:50.2	and does not appropriate. So in this episode, we're going to start with what is cultural
1:56.9	appropriation. I'll give you a background, I'll give you some definitions so that we can
2:01.0	lay that foundation. And then I'm going to give you four different steps, four things you can think
2:06.1	about when you want to celebrate someone else's culture so that you're making sure that you're
2:10.4	appreciating and not appropriating. Okay, so let's jump in with some background. We are socialized to believe that if you want to be
2:20.0	successful in America, you have to assimilate to the dominant culture. Now, if you remember from
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