Cultural Appropriation Test
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 115 minutes
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00:00 What is cultural appropriation?
10:25 Examples of appropriation
16:26 What is cultural appreciation?
39:28 Why are conversations important?
58:10 Is it appropriation?
1:39:30 The Great British Bake-Off Japanese week
1:52:37 Final word
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| 0:00.0 | So, Berto, I thought we would get into the topic of cultural appropriation, partially because we got an email asking about Halloween costumes and cultural appropriation. |
| 0:13.8 | You know, where's the line? |
| 0:15.8 | And what should I do? What should I be concerned with? |
| 0:18.8 | Like, what if your daughter wanted to dress |
| 0:21.5 | up as Moana or something? Is that cultural appropriation? Are you going to get canceled? Are you |
| 0:26.6 | going to lose your job? Are you going to be contacted by MAGA saying, welcome to the fold? What is the |
| 0:35.1 | consequence? Let's get into it. Berto, what do you say? Let's do it. This is the |
| 0:38.7 | Psychology in Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirkanda. I'm a therapist, and I'm also a professor. |
| 0:43.5 | My name is Umberto Castaneda, and I reset odometers for old Ferraris. So I have an email here |
| 0:50.5 | from long-term anonymous patron. She remained anonymous. And she asked the following questions. |
| 0:58.2 | Hi, Dr. Kirk and Berto. First off, I just wanted to thank you both for the podcast. Life and the |
| 1:04.3 | world has been crazy and you keep me somewhat sane, L.O.L. Halloween is coming and I am thinking |
| 1:10.5 | about costume cultural appropriation. I run in |
| 1:14.8 | liberal circles, and I'm noticing that everyone has different understandings of what is and isn't |
| 1:20.1 | cultural appropriation. I have some examples. When I was in college, a sorority dressed up as |
| 1:26.8 | Mexicans. I wish I was making this up. Theyority dressed up as Mexicans. |
| 1:28.0 | I wish I was making this up. |
| 1:29.7 | They wore sombreros and held up signs saying, we will mow lawns for weed. |
| 1:35.4 | We will mow lawns for weed. |
| 1:36.7 | Wow. |
| 1:37.6 | It was disgusting, she says. |
| 1:40.4 | Thankfully, the university addressed it, and obviously this is starkly cultural appropriation and |
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