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Cake day: February 21st, 2026

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  • Cultural malice can certainly cause offense, but to me cultural appropriation is a distinctly different offence, due specifically to willful ignorance. When cultural symbols have a very specific meaning, and are misused as vaguely exotic, people of that culture, who know those symbols and see them being used ignorantly and improperly, and now know that you didn’t really care about their culture, couldn’t even be bothered to ask anybody or look up how to use them authentically.

    As a non-example, I don’t consider it cultural appropriation when culture when I eat tacos, assuming I eat them for the same reason the Mexicans do – their people’s food is better than my people’s food.