Cultural Appreciation: The action of taking the time to learn about a culture’s tradition, expressions, or artifacts to increase understanding.
Cultural Appropriation: The action of adopting or “taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else’s culture without permission” (Susan Scafidi, “Who Owns Culture? Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law” 2005).
Cultural Exchange: The exchanging of information about another culture to increase understanding.
Double Standard: The application of a different set of rules depending on an individual’s
Orientalism: “A colonial-era system of knowledge that defined the East and West as fundamentally opposite, with the East perpetually inferior and exotic” (Ann Marie Leshkowich and Carla Jones, What Happens When Asian Chic Becomes Chic in Asia? 2003).
Otherness: It’s what differentiates different groups of people from each other and creates our understanding of meanings.
Representation: The usage of language and images to help create meaning of what we see in the world.
Westernization: The process of adopting Western culture (in the case of this blog, clothing style and facial features).
Multiculturalism: A way to describe a society that embraces the diversity of different cultures, religions, and races that have learned to co-exist with one another.
Biopower: The management of institutions that classify and organize humans (and other natural life) for social control. A concept created by philosopher Michael Focault.
Cultural Appropriation of East Asian Traditional Clothing 