Summary

For the pass few weeks, I have been researching the difference of cultural appropriation and culture exchange and the reason behind which makes people cautious of (in western pop music). In my opinion from all the research and things I have read, I found that not all people are against the practices of appropriation. From reading through some of the opinion from those agree to appropriation is not a bad thing, I found it might be they are confused with the word Appropriation and Exchange. 

Culture exchange not just about changing knowledge and doesn't means you can't use it. Cultural exchange also means by third word culture, It is call Transpacific Culture, it is when you put two knowledge of cultural together and combine it into a new culture. The third world is unique, because of new combination. It is respectful and informed, and does not harm a minority culture.There are example of successful case like "The Taiko Boom":

"Traditionally, Taiko was a relatively niche Japanese musical performance. However, a jazz drummer named Daihachi Oguchi, transformed Taiko by breaking the traditional single performer and assembled a taiko drum ensemble. A completely new iteration of taiko known as Kumi-daiko was created, and this new taiko became widely popular in the 1970’s, thus starting the Taiko Boom in the USA." (Brown, 2017)

There is also the research of reason why some group of people against it:

1. It makes them feel mocked
2. It makes them feel different 
3. It makes them struggle to be affirmed feels trivialized
4. Society values white more for doing the same things they do
5. Others ignores the racism of some community is dealing with
6. The credit they deserved is taken away
7. It causes stereotyping, and lose it uniqueness of the culture 

Overall, in the perspective of an designer/artist we should be careful of what we going to use. Culture appropriation only happens when we misused it, or when we try to take it as our own. It is basically the meaning of copyrighting in another way, and we don't want these to happen. These act might bring invisible harm to others, and we can't see it.

Reference

Brown (2017) 'Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Exchange?'. [Online] Available at: https://blogs.brown.edu/amst-1905l-s01-spring-2017/appropriation/. [Assessed 5 July 2017 ]

Brown (2017) 'BARREL-DRUMS: TRANSPACIFIC TAIKO & NIKKEI-JAPAN RELATIONS?'. [Online] Available at: https://blogs.brown.edu/amst-1905l-s01-spring-2017/appropriation/. [Assessed 5 July 2017 ]