Really interesting distinction here. Taking a cultural thing that came from somewhere else and making it American means making it communal and shared, while cultural theft, a closely related tendency, means appropriating it and taking credit for it (and profiting off of it)?
There’s a lot of support for this idea. American cultural forms are…[Read more]
In reply to - jacobdscherer wrote a new post, Living generic, on the site The Peopling of NYC For all of my conscious life, I lived in the same town, which was full of people just like myself; upper-middle class caucasian […]