![]() They are mostly disrespectful, but still take things from the other village without being nice to them, and without asking. They learn how to make the special drink they commune with the dead with, but drink it all the time, carelessly, and still won’t talk nicely to the animal-doll village people. In the meantime, many shirt-wearers steal fish from the animal-doll village’s fishing cages, stomp on their crops for fun when they are drunk, and make rude faces at them when they see them in the fields. ![]() They never asked, and they did not follow the rules. To the animal-doll village’s dismay, they learn that the shirt-wearers have been making ‘soulless’ animal dolls that are not connected to a villager, are not prayed over the right way, and in their belief is a dead and cursed thing. They’ve heard the dolls have a complex ceremony and meaning, but they don’t care. The shirt-wearing village likes the look of the dolls from the animal-doll village, and decides to make their own just like them, without asking. People from the two villages see each other from time to time but aren’t all that friendly. ![]() ![]() When they are done, they let these villagers into their village as long as they agree to stop carving animal dolls, as long as they agree to learn their language, and as long as they agree to eat and dress like them, and leave their culture behind. They kill some of their stronger warriors and subdue the rest of the villagers. So they decide to invade, fight and kill people in the animal-doll village. They have invented spears that help them hunt, but think maybe hunting would be even easier if they had more wood from the other villages territory, and less competition. The shirt-wearing village considers itself bigger and stronger. Things from each culture are shared with respect and friendship, and this happened naturally. A few people who have made close friends with people in the other village begin wearing colored shirts like them, or giving their children a special animal doll because someone from that village explained why that was special and invited them to do so. If someone from the first village passes through the second, someone might give them some of their food for the trip and vice versa, so now some people in each village like and sometimes make the food of the other. There are no big territorial battles- the two villages like each other and sometimes share resources. The two villages have grown bigger and bigger over time, which makes them spread closer and closer to eaach other. They eat special starchy balls full of meat, but also once a month,make a drink that honors their dead. They keep it and polish it all their lives, and it is burned when they die. It is very important to every individual, and means a lot to them. There is rumored to be a village to the west of you, where everyone is given a special toy shaped like an animal when they are born. You also eat lots of nuts, but that’s not as important. The people in your village eat lots of tasty yellow fruit with a special mixture of spices and pray to a fruit god every time you eat them. Your family has a blue shirt with polka dots on it. Everyone in the village has a blue shirt. You live in a little village where everyone is identified by the clothes they wear. White people really do not understand the idea of cultural appropriation so I’m gonna explain it to you one y’alls level okay? Bc the absurdity of these counter-arguments I’m getting is out of hand, and I’m tired of arguing with people so far beneath my level on a subject that harms me more than them. ![]()
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