Anonymous asked: If a white person uses aspects of or is influenced by music from other ethnicities/cultures in their own music and come out and say "This is nothing new, this wasn't my idea, these aspects of my music come from [music style] from [culture/country/ethnicity]", would that not be appropriation?

Cultural appropriation doesn’t exist in a vacuum. If a white person tries to make Indian music and is more popular than actual Indian musicians, he’s appropriating. He can talk about how much he was influenced until he’s blue in the face.

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