Original here: https://gegen-kapital-und-nation.org/das-konzept-der-kulturellen-aneignung-eine-kritik-des-rassismus-auf-seinen-eigenen-grundlagen/ In recent years, a new form of racism, cultural appropriation, has been criticized in some anti-racist circles . They always discover this where members of a group adopt cultural productions (e.g. certain cultural customs, hairstyles, items of clothing,...) that, according to advocates of the concept of cultural appropriation, come from other groups, namely those who have less power over the acquiring group due to racial discrimination. When criticizing cultural appropriation, respect for these cultures is demanded. This respect should then contribute to combating racial discrimination. There was criticism that a non-indigenous artist in Canada integrated elements of indigenous art into her artwork. 1 Even when “white” 2 people wear dreadlocks or throw colored powder at each other (a practice inspired by the Indian festival of Holi), t
Alejandro Jodorowsky's film "The Holy Mountain" at first glance just seems like an incomprehensible melange of shockingly violent and sexual, vividly psychedelic and disparate images. It doesn't have a standard plot or narrative, and that might lead a less-reflective viewer to miss the critical message of the film and to instead be mesmerized by the spectacular images. The shallow interpretation would take the film as saying "find your own spiritual enlightenment by living your real life." First, this ignores how scathing and blasphemous the whole of the preceding scenes are towards religion and spirituality in general: Jesus reduced to a thief; to a mass produced wax and plaster trash mountain; gibbering priests; Jewish rabbis playing with shit; the narcissistic absurdity of mystical ritual meditation (looking at one's reflection in a bucket of water), et al. Each depiction of the holy is tied to massacre and sexual debauchery. Secondly, this is precis