Cultural Appropriation

[nancylebov]

I've been somewhat following the discussion of race, ethnicity, and sf (link collection here, and a lot of people have been saying that cultural appropriation isn't a problem as long as you do a decent job of getting things right--this is a consensus I pretty much agree with.

What I haven't seen is much of anything about who's complaining about cultural appropriation--one brief mention of it being a hot issue among some Asian Indians, and that was all. Is it a criticism that most sf writers have any reason to worry about?

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Response to nancylebov...

[ozarque.livejournal.com]

There's an abundance of information responding to the question you're asking at http://community.livejournal.com/wiscon -- just scroll down a bit and you'll come to a whole set of "cultural appropriation" links.

This is an issue that matters very much to me personally, and that I'm glad to see discussed so thoroughly and so openly.