Just like how digital piracy isn鈥檛 theft because it doesn鈥檛 remove the original, neither is cultural borrowing. Culture exists to be shared.
Culture like dances, customs, oral traditions, yes.
Sacred artifacts? That鈥檚 theft.
Yeah honestly I didn鈥檛 really understand this meme in the first place, given that most of the Crusades ended in miserable failures and both sides sacked countless cities both before, after and during the Crusades. I doubt anyone has enough fingers and toes to count how many times Jerusalem has changed occupiers over its history.
also taking cultural things from them after an ethnic cleansing, that鈥檚 just insult to injury. like how Israeli cuisine is just Palestinian food. or Indian costumes after stealing their land.
yhea, that鈥檚 the usual consensus.
I think the issue comes when one culture tries to annihilate the other one鈥檚 peoples but keeps the marketable pieces of their culture.
like doing an ethnic cleansing on native Americans and keeping feathered hats as costumes, or ethnically cleansing Palestinians, denying their existence and turning their food into the national cuisine.
The real crime is the genocide/ethnic cleansing, the cultural appropriation ends up being more of an insult to injury.
first of all, when europeans get ideas from muslims, they first decide the muslims got them from europeans originally.