I think if it warps our understanding of the power dynamic in modern society, or disproportionately benefits people who already disproportionately benefit from that power structure, then yes. Even if they have pure intentions or don’t mean to hurt others, it can and does. The inability, or worse the unwillingness to recognize that is the problem. I think if people enjoy a culture not “their own” and are interested in learning about it and supporting artists/cultural producers from that tradition, that’s great. If they want to take it and commercialize it, and cut out the people who generated it in the first place, that’s a problem. Honestly, the best way to sort through this whole complicated mess is most likely to ask the people whose culture is in question, because people outside that culture might not fully be able to see the pain they’re causing, even if they don’t mean to do so.
If this is a case of that, I don’t think necessarily so, but the people to ask would be the people whose culture is being debated - that’s not me. But if people who already benefit from the state of the modern world can’t take even the slightest criticism about the still existing white/Euro power structure, then we have a problem with acknowledging reality.
