Bill Spight wrote:
Cultural appropriation?????
No me diga!
Baka ni tsukeru kusuri wa nai.
Seriously, if that is cultural appropriation, then we all have to stop playing go, baduk, weiqi. Edit: All us haoles, I mean.
Bill, I don't think either I or Calvin Clark are suggesting that this is cultural appropriation. I think if you know the game and understand what the shirt is, most would agree that it's fine. But someone who did not know what the shirt means and was unfamiliar with go might get upset seeing someone of non-Chinese descent wearing a shirt with only two large Chinese characters on the front. They may be right or wrong in their beliefs -- the entire issue of what constitutes cultural appropriation is a complicated debate -- but the shirt would still upset them. Obviously, at least in the US, this would be more likely in some areas than others.