Where every culture is equal, except your own;
Indigenous advocates from around the world are calling on a UN committee to make appropriating Indigenous cultures illegal — and to do it quickly.
Delegates from 189 countries, including Canada, are in Geneva this week as part of a specialized international committee within the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency.
Since it began in 2001, the committee has been working on creating and finishing three pieces of international law that would expand intellectual-property regulations to protect things like Indigenous designs, dances, words and traditional medicines.
h/t A Deplorable Sewer Rat
as a relatively content old white guy I don’t want anything ( they ) have.
It’s actually quite pathetic in its infantilized, truly puerile logic. Why not go further and hit these demagogues where it hurts them the most: in the slippery slope of language? Can’t culturally appropriate? English is filled with words and expressions stolen quite literally from other languages: not allowed. Don’t think you can get away with just bashing English: all European languages trace have their roots in Latin … which itself derives from a group of about 7 Indo_European languages. I’m no linguist, but humans being human, ALL languages have roots and have appropriated words and concepts from others. All evolution, all shared discovery is appropriation. Not allowed.
They want to use fuzzy language to build a linguistic wall around themselves to shield their power? Give it right back to them and demand that they speak in their original, un-appropriated languages. And refuse to acknowledge them at all until they do.
Telling – and sad – that lessons best applied to three year olds are now applicable to the ruling classes.
Yeah … I need to STOP speaking in the Ebonic dialect I have picked-up from living so close to Oakland … MoFo !
Here in NB, the Indians want to change the name of our longest river, The Saint John River named(in French) back in the late 1600’s by the explorer, Samuel de Champlain. So I guess having a name for 400+ years doesn’t count at all for anything. We have Indian names for the Miramichi, Restigouche, Nepisiguit rivers and a few others which I am fine with but leave a 400 year old name name alone, FFS! However our liberal, pandering, cowardly politically correct slime politicians will be all over this, panting to please.
Correction, early 1600’s