...and though the questions asked in the article are interesting, and though the hit might be distasteful or offensive, there's not much we can do about it.
It's simply another facet of the global village, i.e., everyone's culture is now open for play by everybody else. It's not as if it's the first time a song, or symbol, or practice has been popularized or commercialized. How do you think Native Americans feel when they see dream-catchers in white kids' bedrooms? Probably the same way I feel when I hear of a non-Jewish couple getting married under a chuppah, or pop idols "studying" Kabbalah.
It's annoying, but I'd rather channel my energies toward making a difference in a concrete, positive way (and there are a million ways to do this) than launch yet another e-petition that ends up...where? Somewhere in cyberspace.
...and though the questions asked in the article are interesting, and though the hit might be distasteful or offensive, there's not much we can do about it.
It's simply another facet of the global village, i.e., everyone's culture is now open for play by everybody else. It's not as if it's the first time a song, or symbol, or practice has been popularized or commercialized. How do you think Native Americans feel when they see dream-catchers in white kids' bedrooms? Probably the same way I feel when I hear of a non-Jewish couple getting married under a chuppah, or pop idols "studying" Kabbalah.
It's annoying, but I'd rather channel my energies toward making a difference in a concrete, positive way (and there are a million ways to do this) than launch yet another e-petition that ends up...where? Somewhere in cyberspace.