<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/993ed16d-9cc7-46c0-bce4-63789d0911db/61E550E3-8EDE-46ED-AA77-639DFEE70DF3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/58-japan/" href="http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/58-japan/" style="font-size: 11px;">stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/58-japan/"><P>While I am not a fan of the means (satire - I think it’s too easy to make it overly incendiary, i.e. too easily misconstrued), I support the ends to which this blog is aiming (greater reflection and insight to the offensive consequences of mass cultural appropriation). Not as an woman of color but just as a person, I think it’s fucked up that people think that “ethnic peoples” should find the production, packaging, selling, and consumption of different bits and pieces of their cultures to be endearing or cool. Cultural appropriation is offensive to the core, and that this blog brings that to light is important. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/61E550E3-8EDE-46ED-AA77-639DFEE70DF3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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