Posted on 06/15/2017 11:09:16 AM PDT by davikkm
United Nations Wants to Outlaw “Cultural Appropriation” Worldwide
Matt Miller Jun 15th, 2017 12:37 pm 20 Comments
The UN wants to expand intellectual property regulations to include cultural entities and concepts, such as clothing, dances, arts, medicines, etc. The UN’s efforts would allow for legal action to be taken by minority groups against those who supposedly steal or monetize a piece of their culture.
The United Nations has been making efforts to outlaw “cultural appropriation” for over fifteen years. Via CBC:
Delegates from 189 countries, including Canada, are in Geneva this week as part of a specialized international committee within the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency.
Since it began in 2001, the committee has been working on creating and finishing three pieces of international law that would expand intellectual-property regulations to protect things like Indigenous designs, dances, words and traditional medicines.
The meeting takes place as concern grows worldwide about the rights of cultures to control their own materials. In the U.S. this week, designer Tory Burch agreed to change the description of one of her coats for women after Romanians protested that it had been described as African-inspired when it actually appropriated a traditional Romanian garment.”
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Sounds like they want to appropriate someone else’s culture. Not sure if they’re trying to emulate Stalin, Hitler, Mao, or some other nutcase but I’d definitely say they are participating in “cultural appropriation” with this.
UN, shut the f*** up.
Tampon companies to the 3rd world: “You didn’t build that.”
Get US out of that stupid UN.
Does this mean black women cannot straighten their hair or wear western styles. And we’re going to need huge committees to study and rule upon the accuracy of the appropriations.
Committees, huge committees to rule on each issue.
Also, doesn’t this fly in the face of centuries of bragging about “America’s Melting Pot’. The fact that we all live together and meld together.
That too. And every other power-grabbing, legal-entanglement reason we can think of and some that we can’t even imagine.
Indians can no longer ride Horses.
Oooops...
LAWYERS?
I guess the UN forgot that “lawyers” were invented in the West.
Just how would a “culture” without “indigenous” lawyers SUE anyone?
We’ll be as bad as the French not wanting any non-French words. We’ll all be as screwed as they are.
Can we just get on with expelling the UN from the USA? Why are they even here? They hate us and we hate them. Let them set up shop in Berlin.
Money.
Well, French, English, etc. are all Indo-European languages. So we all got them from the caucuses. No more speaking them in Europe, India, or the Middle East.
I want those UN banderlog to quit using writing and electronics then.
There's a lot of happy kids in Sierra Leone sporting their brand new "Cleveland Cavaliers 2017 NBA Champs" and "Nashville Predators 2017 Stanley Cup Champs" T-shirts. Why should we deny these underprivileged kids are great T shirt?
Chocolate or coffee, either... What with chocolate being from Central America, and coffee being from Africa.
I know a few Irish decendents that shouldn’t have corned beer and cabbage for global warming reasons.
Chocolate and vanilla are from Mexico.
Only Germans can drive internal combustion vehicles.
We’re missing the operative words: minority groups’. So unless you’re white and a.minority in a third world setting no legal right to complain. And even then it would be ignored or worse .
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