As a brown Indian dude, it seems to me that the western world is caught in some self-hating loop.
It simultaneously trivializes my culture while hating its own culture.
I watched Justin Trudeau dance the bhangra and people claim "oh what beautiful Indian culture". I've seen people eat butter chicken to partake in "Indian culture" experiences.
That's just wrong. Indian culture - any culture - is far, far more than a dance or some dish.
At the same time, I see white people negate their culture altogether. It might have been built on colonialism and imperialism, but what, say, Renaissance artists pulled off is significant, very significant.
Everyone needs to back off and think about this for a bit
It simultaneously trivializes my culture while hating its own culture.
I watched Justin Trudeau dance the bhangra and people claim "oh what beautiful Indian culture". I've seen people eat butter chicken to partake in "Indian culture" experiences.
That's just wrong. Indian culture - any culture - is far, far more than a dance or some dish.
At the same time, I see white people negate their culture altogether. It might have been built on colonialism and imperialism, but what, say, Renaissance artists pulled off is significant, very significant.
Everyone needs to back off and think about this for a bit