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[metaphorge]

Many people often seem to become upset when memes they personally hold important or identify with are replicated in what they feel to be an inexact fashion.

Agree, disagree, commentary?

(I feel the wikipedia article on "cultural appropriation" has good things to say on and examples of this subject.)

Comments

Re: Just some 5 minute thoughts...

[ineffabelle]

Ahh, that kind of shows how cultural distortion can happen.
I was utterly clueless about the actual connection to the dreamcatchers and I still knew of their existence, severed from any actual historical truth.