"Cultural appropriation"- why wearing sombreros wrong if not Mexican

[Penistone999]

The Guardian does not approve of cultural appropriation. People can only write literature if they have direct experience .

 

So someone who is not a whale should not have written Mobey Dick...

 

and Lionel Shriver should not have written the book We Need To Talk About Kevin because she's never mothered a mass highschool shooter?

 

Where does this nonsense end? A Muslim woman on channel 4 last night was speaking in favour of the Sharia court system here in the UK. She was not only wearing a big loud poppy headscarf but was also wearing a poppy .

 

What part of cultural appropriation does she not understand?

 

My biggest concern is why would anyone waste valuable time reading that left wing rag ?

[saunaman]

To be fair , I read the on-line Guardian with a peg on my nose and feel the need to go and have a shower after reading some of the articles . Know the enemy and all that!

[Obelix]

The bit where her relatives fought as part of the British Empire troops in WW1 and/or WW2?

 

That's a good reason

 

 

Or perhaps she has a relative who is a current member of our armed forces.

 

That's no reason at all.

 

Perhaps you should stop trying to politicise poppy wearing.

 

Pot kettle black....

 

---------- Post added 04-11-2016 at 10:29 ----------

 

Maybe people shouldn't title threads about sombreros if they're not about sombreros

 

Yeah I want my pictures of men in big floppy hats too!

[carosio]

A very serious case of innappropriatness.

 

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-llama-herdswoman-wearing-a-bowler-hat-also-called-bombin-san-juan-60775173.html