The standards for cultural theft are wrong. Don't talk about Japan by the standards of Western society.

There is a term in Western society called "cultural theft.

It is said that foreigners are not allowed to wear the national costume of the country or imitate the hairstyle of the country, which is considered cultural theft.

It is a breach of etiquette.

Well, given the historical background of Caucasian society, it is understandable.

They set up colonies in Asia and Africa.
They stripped people of their ethnic costumes, dressed them in clothes, and forced them to speak English and French.

This is not acceptable.

In other words, they must have a sense of remorse that they don't deserve to enjoy the ethnic costumes and culture that they made obsolete and took away.

I understand that, because the West is the one who took it.

It's already been 70 years.

It's been more than 70 years since the pre-war world, to put it crudely.

It feels like our ancestors are already the ones who stole our culture.

If we are going to cry about cultural theft, we need to give the culture back to the people.

However, I don't want Japan or the Japanese people to make a big deal about cultural theft.

Because nothing has been taken from us.

No, the Japanese swords were confiscated by GHQ, right?
It's called the Akabane sword.

They took the art, but they didn't take any of our culture.

The theft of Western culture is just a complex of colonizing various countries, forcing them to replant crops, and treating them as slaves.

Japan has nothing to do with this.

It's annoying to think that we are trying to atone for the sins of the past.

I think it's annoying that they are spinning their minds to atone for their past sins.

It is not cultural theft for foreigners to wear ethnic costumes.

It is not cultural theft for a foreigner to wear a national costume.

This can be said with certainty.

We think that the historical background, that is, until the invader takes it and enjoys it as he pleases, and the ethnic group becomes angry or atrophied, is cultural theft.

Japanese people don't get angry at foreigners wearing kimonos, they were never robbed, nor were they forced to wear clothes.

On the contrary, is it cultural theft for Japanese to wear clothes?

Japan has never regulated the Western culture of wearing clothes.

It is nothing more than a nuisance for foreigners to make a fuss about foreigners wearing Japanese kimonos, calling it cultural theft.

It will spread the culture of kimono to the world and make it harder for T-shirts and suits to take over.

Even if foreigners wear kimonos, the fact that it is Japan's national costume does not change at all.

In fact, it is better if the number of lovers increases so that the culture will not be interrupted.

Culture is a big tree grown by a people

Culture is like a big tree that is watered and carefully nurtured by its people.

It doesn't matter if a foreigner loves the flowers on the tree or eats the fruits.

You can even plant the seeds left over from eating the fruits in your own garden.

However, if they dig up the roots of the big tree and try to steal it, or if they claim that the grafted tree is the original! or claiming to be the original.

It is not allowed to give the name of a fruit to a fake fruit (something completely different).

It is perfectly fine for foreigners to enjoy Japanese culture and for foreigners to run Japanese restaurants.

However, it is not acceptable to claim that Japanese culture is one's own culture or originated in one's own country.

There was a case in the past where Japanese people protested fiercely when they tried to sell corrective underwear under the name of kimono.

That was cultural theft, and there was a risk of overwriting the perception of people who searched for kimono.

The act of trying to take a name without permission can be called cultural theft.

White society is unaware of true cultural theft

Western society does not understand cultural theft.

For Japanese, the country that steals culture is Korea.

Korea is the country that plagiarizes Japanese culture, saying that the culture originated in Korea.

They try to generalize false information by appealing to the world that the culture originated in Korea or that the technology was introduced by Korea.

This is exactly the kind of cultural theft that the Japanese have carefully nurtured and tried to usurp.

Compared to this, it doesn't matter that foreigners are wearing kimonos and enjoying themselves.

Compared to being told that we are the origin of one culture, foreigners enjoying Japanese kimono is healthy and cute.

Summary

The term "cultural theft" in the West is nothing more than a complex or a sense of guilt stemming from past colonial rule.

Japan has never been colonized and exploited by the Western powers, although we have been under the supervision of GHQ.

We have never had our culture taken away from us, and I don't believe that Japanese culture can be shaken no matter who enjoys it.

I believe that Japanese culture will not be shaken no matter who enjoys Japanese culture. If we talk about cultural theft, then Japanese restaurants run by foreigners abroad will be wiped out, and French restaurants run by Japanese chefs will not be allowed.

If the people who are the bearers of the culture don't like it, then so be it, but I don't think it's something for the outside world to make a fuss about.

Bye.(^ω^)ノシ

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