I've never tried to act black!WanderingProtagonist wrote: ↑November 16th, 2022, 8:28 pmWith you it's different I guess, but I can't stand being around people who are like white, but dislike being white so badly they believe they can just become black by dressing black, talking black (mostly in a stereotypical way with the slang), and listening to the music, this is why I get pissy when I see white women trying to imitate black females, that shit is mockery to me and annoying too. When white girls got so heavily involved with black males and hip hop spread into white territory it's like they forgot who they are, where they came from and I connect much better with people who aren't trying to be something they'll never be just because they hate their own native culture.
If I went somewhere like South Korea and the people there were heavily into hip hop culture, I'd find them boring as shit and then I'd say "Well I could have stayed my ass in America if I wanted to be around people like this, this isn't why I came to Korea to be around negro obsessed people." I can understand if people don't feel connected to their own, I feel like that too. But at the same time I would never adopt someone else's culture as my own, it wouldn't feel right doing that. In the end I can just accept being a person that has no culture at all, it's harder that way if I went in this direction. But I'm American Indian too, so Native American culture to me is ten times better than negro shit that's got everyone acting like black obsessed faggots all over the country. Being black is like a goddamn cult, you're used by everyone. Democrats, Jews, and self hating whites.
I'm a fan of some aspects of African American culture such as old-school R&B, Funk and Soul music (I recognize the enormous contribution that Blacks in America have made to popular music) and I greatly enjoy African American comedy too, but I don't like what is being promoted as "Black culture" today, which is basically just rap culture and all of the superficial, materialistic, anti-intellectual and narcissistic bullshit associated with it. I think it's a shame that Black culture is being reduced to that given that there was a lot of much more wholesome Black culture and artistic trends in previous generations.I think that there are different reasons why some people hate their native culture. Some simply don't fit in with the culture which they were born into, genuinely feel much more comfortable with a different culture and feel a need to flee to that more agreeable culture due to a feeling of alienation within their own (me and certain other HA members fall into this category, I believe) while others begin to hate their own culture due to guilt which is inculcated into them through the media and then decide to imitate another culture (e.g., Black ghetto culture) just because it's being promoted as "cool". The former group simply has a naturally occurring and deep-seated preference. The latter group is indeed quite pathetic since it is so easily influenced.
I don't know whether you consider me adopting Spanish as my primary medium of communication the same as adopting/appropriating someone else's culture (unduly), but the truth is that when you learn a foreign language and immerse yourself in the L2 environment you are very much forced to imitate a different culture and appropriate a part of it as your own - especially if you want to speak the language well and like a native speaker. It's just part of the process. You have to learn how to pronounce words like a native speaker through imitation, learn slang expressions, get to grips with many culturally specific idioms, and even reinterpret the world through a distinct linguistic lens. In order to learn Spanish well, you have to learn how to think like a Spaniard and even live like a Spaniard to some degree. The ability to adapt to and appropriate someone else's culture is a huge advantage when it comes to language learning.
