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Cross cultural influence is a marvellous thing and very enriching to creativity! It's lovely when you can see multiple cultural influences in things, whether comics, movies, art, fashion, music or anything else. It's inspiring and leads to new and more interesting things. I picked promo images from some recent Pixar movies Turning Red, Encanto, Coco, and Moana, because they're good examples of the process and what it can result in.
The flip-side of that is “cultural appropriation”. That's where you take something that's important, sacred or representative of another culture and you claim ownership of it or use it in an inappropriate way, not giving the true source any respect and not seeking permission. unfortunately this is often used as a false accusation by people who either try and white-knight or are just trying to weaponise the idea in order to gain status or make a point, which has a number of very negative effects: It drives people toward monoculuralisim in their expression, makes people afraid to experiment, it can make people less likely to see ACTUAL examples of cultural appropriation and more likely to discount or ignore real examples of it.
In the Quackcast we mention Big Trouble in Little China, which was a wonderful blend of American action film and Hong Kong kung-fu movie. The Clint Eastwood Western A Fist Full Of Dollars is a version of the Japanese samurai film Yojimbo, made by Italians. And then of course the Samurai films of that era were inspired by America westerns anyway, so there was all sorts of deep cultural mixing.
What are some of your own fave examples of cross cultural influence?
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Quackcast 703 - Cross Cultural Influence
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 3, 2024
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Ozoneocean at 7:15PM, Sept. 5, 2024
@marcorossi - with accusations of cultural appropriation people should just be a lot more circumspect and not so trigger-happy.
Ozoneocean at 6:17PM, Sept. 3, 2024
@Paul- I feel all metal was culturally appropriated by emo teens back in the 80s XD It used to be a fund, flashy genre with experimentation, musical skill, sex, glam, stagecraft and hairspry but then the nerdy emo teens took it and turned it into something dull, black, and serious, with a severe lack of musical skill and stage-craft. With metal's crisis of popularity after the grunge mess of the early 90s it was that crap which rose out of the ashes to claim to genre and retcon their origins to pretend they were always the "real" metal :( I need to turn that into an epic fantasy ^___^
marcorossi at 5:42AM, Sept. 3, 2024
A Fistful Of Dollars is a total plagiarism of Yojimbo, both in the general story and in what happens in the single scenes, however it is saved from the fact that Leone's style of photography was totally different from that of Kurosawa. Re: cultural appropriation: on the one hand I get how reusing in a distorted way something that is important for culture X might be a problem (expecially when it creates bad stereotypes about culture X), but on the other, if one takes this idea literally then one could never make parodies about religions (a tightly knit religious group is an ethnic minority and thus also should have the right to call for this kind of protections). So there should be a limit on what could/should be regarded as "cultural appropriation".
PaulEberhardt at 5:09AM, Sept. 3, 2024
You can't steal Rock'n'Roll, because you either get it or you don't, and if you do it doesn't just go skin-deep; in fact your skin is what matters the least, as long as it's thick enough. ... In less cryptic words, pretty much all great popular music stems from a cross-cultural mishmash. The latest tip of the iceberg is probably to be found in metal, which as a genre seems to be very good at adapting all kinds of influences, so you've got Indian metal, Mongolian metal, Maori metal, Finnish Humppa metal and whatnot, and while I can't say I could listen to all of it all day, every single one of these micro folk metal genres has produced something awesome that really rocks, no matter where you're from. It's of course all part of globalization, which does have its negative sides too, lots of them, but those parts that bring people around the world closer together can't be that bad, can they?