navigating cultural appropriation in full time pottery

I'm pretty sure the western countries that invented steal, profited greatly from the non western countries that adopted that method of technology... wait... actually I bet it some cases this steal making process wasn't adopted at all by natives in those countries but instead forced down their throats by colonialists.

I mean... what? this makes no sense. If youre a fishman, and nobody else in your village knows how to catch fish, would it be more profitable for you to teach them all to fish for themselves? Or to continue to sell everyone fish at whatever price you choose to set?

It isn't reverse racism to acknowledge these things. It isn't reverse racism to promote other cultural ideas without presenting them as your own.

Lol I agree with all of that, please point out where i said anything contrary. However what was being discussed was not "acknowledging history", or "presenting cultural ideas as your own". I agree it would be immoral for a non-Japanese person to sell their raku pottery by lying and claiming that they were Japanese and that this was genuine Japanese rakuware, made in Japan by Japanese people using traditional Japanese techniques. But again thats not what is being discussed. OP said (and many here have agreed) that even just making and selling rakuware would be inappropriate for non-japanese (just as an example). That the defined bounds of acceptable behavior depends on a persons race, that people of X race are only allowed to do certain things, and only people of Y race are allowed to do others. THAT is racism. Not "reverse racism" (whatever the hell that is), just straight up regular old Racism Classic.

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