I think they just floundered the canoe

Duke wrote:

Streetwiseguy wrote: I'm pretty darn sure I was taught in school that birch bark and dugout canoes were originally designed and built by natives. Kayaks and umiaks were built by Inuit....

THAT MAKES IT CULTURAL APPROPRIATION! BAD! NO! TRIGGER! SAFE SPACE! I just will never get this PC orthodoxy crap. I fully understand the intention of getting people to stop being shiny happy people to each other. I'm on board with that. But it sure seems like I am expected to celebrate other cultures - that's "accepting cultural diversity" - as long as I don't use, like, or enjoy any of it - because that's "cultural appropriation". So what am I supposed to do? I have to learn to accept everything everybody else does, but I'm forbidden from integrating the things I approve of into my own behaviour? I'm required by unwritten PC law to remain a middle class American white guy - but forced to accept everything about all other cultures. Everything not forbidden is compulsory. Welcome to the 21st century. NOTE: there is nothing specific about me being a middle class white guy. It's just the random circumstances of my birth. The same holds true for any other person thrust into a different culture. Somehow we're supposed to "assimilate" without "appropriating". That's a little like being told you have to pick something up but you aren't allowed to touch it.

I could say something about cowboy hats, blue jeans and horses here, but I'm not going to.

In reply to Streetwiseguy:

Totally not true, I've seen blazing saddles.

I've seen a Native American wearing a cowboy hat. There are no rules.

Holy E36 M3 you guys, way to take a NEWS ARTICLE about a book representing the opinion of ONE PERSON, and turn it into a condemnation of everything. Nobodys persecuting your middle-class pasty white butts.

Some people LOVE being offended. They should try real problems.

Jay wrote: Holy E36 M3 you guys, way to take a NEWS ARTICLE about a book representing the opinion of ONE PERSON, and turn it into a condemnation of everything. Nobodys persecuting your middle-class pasty white butts.

Agreed!. The act of writing books was originated by the Greeks in the 5th century BC. That author who wrote the book appropriated that notion from the Greeks. Considering the shape the Greek economy is in, Id say the authors actions are definitely condemnable! Greece needs all the revenue they can muster in this day and age. They shouldnt fear losing income from one of their base industries to Canadian copy-cats. Shame on that guy!