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When is appropriation appropriate?
The answer is almost always. Cultural borrowing and exchange are the fuel of human creative progress.
The idea that “cultural appropriation” must be guarded against, and rooted out, is arguably one of the wobbliest ideas that the era of identity politics has given us. Cultural appropriation is a vastly bigger and healthier process than its opportunist edges: in a very real sense, it is the engine of human intellectual progress.
04.2024 | Carlos Amato
The big deal about small nations
Are tiny societies happier than big ones? Plucky Cape Verde and many other thriving little nations seem to confirm that hypothesis. But the case for subdividing the world’s broken big countries is much harder to make …
06.2022 | Carlos Amato
Raak wys to the rejuvenating power of slang
My two-year-old son calls his sandals his “scandals”. So does his five-year-old brother. And so do his parents, come to think of it.
08.2021 | Carlos Amato