As a Quebecois, I like that Canadians like poutine. I don’t like that they pretend they have invented it. I also like that they like maple syrup and the traditions surrounding it (cabane à sucre). I don’t like that they appropriate it as a thing of their own (we produce 90% of global maple syrup).
You may not like it, but as a Quebecois you unfortunately remain part of Canada and thus are part of the set of Canadians and the creations and practices of Quebec are Canadian as a consequence.
To change that, you’ll need to double down on that Free Quebec stuff and cut yourselves away from your English neighbors. Though I don’t think that’s even won an opinion poll in the last twenty years, and I don’t think it’s ever been closer than the failed resolution in 1995.
So it’s fine for a culture to pretend to have invented something or take something as their own as long as that something is from a culture that happens to be in the same country?
To me, that’s cultural appropriation, no matter whether it happens within the same country or not.
As a Quebecois, I like that Canadians like poutine. I don’t like that they pretend they have invented it. I also like that they like maple syrup and the traditions surrounding it (cabane à sucre). I don’t like that they appropriate it as a thing of their own (we produce 90% of global maple syrup).
You may not like it, but as a Quebecois you unfortunately remain part of Canada and thus are part of the set of Canadians and the creations and practices of Quebec are Canadian as a consequence.
To change that, you’ll need to double down on that Free Quebec stuff and cut yourselves away from your English neighbors. Though I don’t think that’s even won an opinion poll in the last twenty years, and I don’t think it’s ever been closer than the failed resolution in 1995.
So it’s fine for a culture to pretend to have invented something or take something as their own as long as that something is from a culture that happens to be in the same country?
To me, that’s cultural appropriation, no matter whether it happens within the same country or not.