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The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

— Serge Daney

I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other and exchanging…

— Lionel Shriver

Our modern understanding of cultural appropriation is highly individualised. It's all about what Halloween costume you wear, or who's cooking biryani. But the way…

— Ash Sarkar

Anyone should be able to express themselves in any context. Obviously, there are arguments against appropriation, but it's one thing when someone is doing…

— Christian Scott

“In other words, (cultural) exchange is about teasing out points of conflict, among other things. (Cultural) Appropriation suggests a significant amount of self-satisfaction and…

— Anna Holmes

What I want to tell people is that you can mix the culture a little bit and it's not always appropriation.

— Jain

If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

— Frances McDormand

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in…

— Jerry Saltz

One of the upsides of tourism is that people begin to take themselves a little more seriously (and think their) culture is worth something.…

— Paul Theroux

Much of the violence that humanity suffers in our times is rooted inmisunderstanding as well as in the rejection of the values and identityof…

— Pope John Paul II

“Because cultural difference has long been conceived as a redemptive solution to the ambivalence of a Western culture established in the destruction of its…

— Deborah Root

“In a relentlessly commercial culture, the communication of our private meanings has been vaguely corrupted around the edges by the toxic idioms of merchandising.”

— Charles Baxter