A cultural distraction is due to cultural activities that are practiced by one culture but has also become an activity for other cultures although it doesn't really pertain to their own culture or doesn't really matter, really.
"Do we really have to participate in this cultural distraction of Chinese New Year's again? Really? Why are we celebrating their New Year again? Are we going to end up buying trinkets for things we don't really believe in? I think this is all a marketing ploy to sell trinkets every year.
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Alisha: "Don't mind my friend, she's just culturally confused."
Alisha: "Don't mind my friend, she's just culturally confused."
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by J_ust_some_guy November 14, 2020
Get the Cultural cross-pollination mug.The idiotic conflation of culture with racism. Essentially the absurd belief that the cultural exchange that has served to enrich humanity throughout all of human history is wrong because racists exist.
SJW: OMG, look at that white girl with dreadlocks! That's cultural appropriation!
Sane individual: Eat a bag of dicks.
Sane individual: Eat a bag of dicks.
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Get the Cultural Enrichment Stick mug.The proposition of continuous self-disenfranchisement within a culture. To iterate or inculcate the notion that a free person must define themselves as a non-free person (or slave) to honor, adhere to, or represent their culture.
Young African Americans are discouraged from seeking educational and vocational opportunity in life so as to keep them as slaves to their culture, and keep them trapped as cultural slaves.
by Bart C. November 1, 2005
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