Cultural Appropriation As Fashion

Cultural appropriation as fashion

Introduction

Cultural appropriation has become a fairly controversial issue in recent years, both in the fashion industry and in the music industry, throughout history there have been many adaptations with reference to multiple cultures, but of course, withoutprovide remuneration to the cultures from which they come or give credit to these for the idea taken, without taking into account the multiple historical motifs that this element has behind and being used only as a fashion. As proposed in the text "Epistemology of Social Sciences", it can be said that materialism is doctrine according to which, everything that exists is matter. 

Developing

That is, the foundation of all reality and the cause of all the transformations that occur in it. And based on this definition, it can be argued that culture itself is matter and therefore exists and can be subject to transformations, adaptations and subtractions, allowing it to be in constant change. Here, it is possible to attach another philosophical school that can be contrasted directly with materialism, since it tries to demonstrate that the tangible, real and material is what should happen, and on the other hand due to the globalization and ease that it provides to the exchangecultural, an idealism is highlighted. 

Where the idea is the principle and foundation of knowledge. The philosopher Berkeley defines as “the objects we know correspond to our sensations: the existence of objects consists of being perceived.

"What allows culture to be interpreted through who perceives it and this is what is accused of the so -called" cultural appropriation ", to provide an interpretation of the different elements of this, without knowing the background or origin ofThese same elements, providing those that the interpreter wants and this gives way to the question, what defines cultural appropriation?.

And from what point is a cultural exchange and from what time the use of elements of another culture is considered a transgression. “Cultural appropriation happens when someone extracts a cultural element belonging to a social group or community and uses it for their own (economic) benefit by erasing its origin or relativizing it."Well, cultural appropriation is considered transgressive when a dominant culture appropriates elements of a dominated culture without knowing or taking into account its origin and meaning, using these same elements as a mockery or simple" style "and obtaining from thissome benefit. 

In the fashion industry, for example, there are several designers, designers and brands that have plagiarized designs of indigenous communities or minorities to present them as their own and thus obtain profits. On the other hand, representations are continually. The grievances that have caused cultural appropriation have already had strong repercussions, both in Mexico and the world and clear examples of this are the complaint filed by an organization of indigenous women of Aguacatenango in Chiapas against the Spanish brand Zara for the plagiarism of theirembroidered designs. 

conclusion

Similarly, the French designer Isabel Marant had to face accusations for the plagiarism of an indigenous huipil of Santa María de Tlahuitoltepec. So that it can be considered a cultural exchange, both parties must be benefited by the final results of the product, since, if not, it can be affirmed that these are plagiarized elements. This is why there must be an applicable regulation worldwide in order to avoid cultural plagiar.

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