Cultural appropriation is all well and good, it's not a big deal, it's people from somewhere being inspired by your culture and wanted to try something out too! So cool!
Sure you get things like Bossa Nova getting popular overseas, then being carved into music for relaxing, happy, laidback soundtracks, or elevator music, if you will (because the global north wanted the rhythm but not the antifascism and protest that consisted a heavy part and greatly diversified the writing of its original repertoire), then after the genre falls in popularity in Brazil being fed back to brazilians to take that as what bossa nova is too resulting in a wave of new composers making bossa that has more in common with Jpop than Chico B-
Nah, that's reading too much into it, we gotta celebrate how globalized culture is nowadays!! They love our music!! Vai Brasil!!!
I don't have much to add to the discussion about Orientalism itself that hasn't been said better, but I do am pissed about the argument of "cultures inspiring and influencing each other" and globalization to dismiss cultural appropriation I've seen some people talk here. As if there's an equal balance in said cultural influence in the world at all. As if the fetishization of foreign cultures (be it systemic or individual) doesn't also affect people's own perception of their own culture and life too.
