Cultural appropriation is when you take from a culture with no understanding or respect for said culture. Like rock being seen as "white" music despite it coming from black culture. White people used Elvis so they could listen to rock music without having to deal with black people. Eminem also gets used that way to an extent but no where near as extreme because Eminem consistently works with black people.
When it comes to dreadlocks and braids it's really stupid because they are culturally ubiquitous and nobody really knows where exactly the hair styles originated from because they predate ancient culture and go well into prehistoric times.
With Justin Bieber I can't really say he doesn't respect black culture because I don't know. I do know that his career came from an Usher endorsement and he's consistently been a huge piece of black culture his whole career. Looking into it he seems very self aware of how he's been influenced by and benefited off of black culture and is fairly vocal about racial justice so he does seem to respect the culture.
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Lucem, you're right, it's silly to talk about what I would or wouldn't do IRL. Glad you brought it up. Maybe you should write an instrumental about it. I recommend a piano paired with a clarinet. With ambient sounds of you hanging from your shower curtain you ****ing failure.
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